Design in India: The Importance of the Ahmedabad Declaration.

The article presents an account of the Ahmedabad Declaration on Industrial Design for Development, a design manifesto issued at a conference in Ahmedabad, India in 1979. An overview is provided of the historical background of the manifesto. The study of design in India is traced back to the collabor...

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Published in:	Design Issues Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 54 - 80
Main Author:	Balaram, S.
Format:	Article
Published:	MIT Press Autumn2009
Subjects:	Design Indic aesthetics Conferences & conventions Nineteen seventies European civilization Civilization of India 20th century Indian History Ahmadābād (India) India
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