About Delhi Design Festival (DDF)
Delhi Design Festival (DDF) is LIVELY, RICH and a DEMOCRATIC platform to celebrate, share, exchange, experience, learn, inspire, make new connections, build new collaborations, facilitate dialog between design professionals, people, policy maker, civic agencies, governments and industry. It’s also a celebration of Indian Design and serves as a showcase of Indian Design to India as well as to the world. DDF 2017 is being organized in association with USID Foundation (Universal, Sustainable, Innovative Design for social change...www.usidfoundation.org/DDF2017)
Connecting Design to People, Civic Agencies and Governance… Celebration of design and design thinking…
DDF Mission & Vision
The mission of Delhi Design Festival (DDF) is to create a meeting point between the various domains of design and offer a platform for Indian and International design/creative minds and leaders to meet, exchange knowledge, ideas and experience. It offers the citizens a forum to participate in developing and discussing their cities and its culture. DDF also serve as a bridge not only between design professionals, citizens, civic agencies, government and industry but also serve as a bridge between design and other professions including technology and business and social sciences, to leverage the value of design for larger social, economic and business impact.
DDF will also explore potential design interventions that can help in changing the perception of our cities and implement those using the Design Thinking methodologies and engaging with prominent designers, subject matter experts, governments, policy makers, civic agencies, NGO’s, and citizens etc.. This will not only help the quality of living for the residents of cities but help in increasing the tourist flow to these cities.
The vision of DDF is to establish Indian design and culture on the global creative map, to attract international business and collaborations for design and other creative industry of India and establish Delhi the “Design Capital of India” and India as the “Design Capital of the World” in few years from now.
Who is this for?
DDF is targeting professionals across the design disciplines & industry (Industrial, Product, User Experience, New Media, Digital, Visual Communication & Advertising, Branding, Media, Fashion, Textile, Architecture, Interior, Crafts etc.), Design Institutions (Students, Faculty, Researchers etc.) Policy Makers & Implementing agencies (Bureaucrats, Civic Agencies, Planners, Municipal Corporations), Performers, Artist and Crafts etc.. DDF will be providing simultaneous dynamic conferences, educational programs and entertainment for both guests and participants to enjoy, get inspired and achieve professional connections and promoting global and Indian most innovative ideas and creative solutions of any kind.
Why calling it “Delhi Design Festival”?
DELHI not just represents a “geographical location” but represent the whole nation that is INDIA as its CAPITAL to the world. Delhi Design Festival is also not a festival of any specific geographical location but the festival and celebration of Indian Design & Innovation. DDF events shall not necessarily be limited to Delhi and NCR locations. DDF makes a OPEN CALL to the design professionals, creative minds, institution, organizations irrespective of their geographical locations to send proposals for events which they would like to organize in their locations and DDF will try to support few such events and will publish and promote those events under the DDF event calendar and website.
