Learning in a design school is experiential, mostly by ‘learn by doing’. Hence relevant and state of art equipment in engaging Labs and studios is necessary to tinker, fail and learn

• State of the art WiFi enabled, Smart-boards equipped studios plus projection facility.
• The Builder’s sanctum to prototype with different materials with hand and powered machines and tools.
• One of the few design schools in India to house a Rapid Prototyping Lab (including a 3D printer, laser cutter and CNC milling machine.
• A Tinkering lab with a wide range of electronics for prototyping, including proto-boards like the Arduino, the Raspberry-Pi, various kinds of sensors, LEDs, drivers to explore and build with
• The School of Design also houses the XR reality lab with high-end computing machines and state of the art head mounted devices.
• It is the only school in India to include a Usability lab (Test Drive) in its facilities to evaluate the solutions designed therein. This facilitates user- centricity and value build in design
• A well-stocked library with up-to-date knowledge resources in design as well all other faculties of the university.

Entrance area

 

Learners area

 

Facilitators area

 

Studio

 

Builder’s sanctum (workshop) 01

 

Builder’s sanctum (workshop) 02

 

Tinkering lab 01

 

Tinkering lab 02

 

Rapid Prototyping Lab 01

 

Rapid Prototyping Lab 02

 

Test Drive (Usability Lab) )01

 

Test Drive (Usability Lab)02

 

XR Lab (Virtual Reality Lab) 01

 

Interactive Space 01

 

Interactive Space 02

 

Library

 

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The NMIMS Deemed to be University (as per UGC Norms) hostel facility includes two full-fledged hostels and three rented residential accommodations (taken care of by the University itself) in Mumbai, separately for boys and girls. Students are provided with all necessary facilities in the hostel along with some value-added services as well.
Hostel application forms are available on our website. Students are required to submit the hostel application form and hostel fee along with all necessary documents. Hostel allotment list is provided on our website 3 days before the start of classes.

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Internships/NGO Reviews

Internship is an integral and compulsory part of the curriculum for the B. Des. (Humanising Technology) Program. A student of this program is required to complete two internships with duly evaluated outcomes. The first one is a month-long NGO internship after the completion of year II and the second is a 6-month industry internship after the completion of year III. The objective is to provide the student an opportunity to apply their academic learning in a professional context, assess their capabilities and skill sets and return to academics with a renewed intent.

• NGO Internship
• Industry Internship

NGO Internship

On completion of the two-year foundation program, the student is expected to complete a month-long internship in social design and research at a verified NGO. It facilitates the application of the learnings in the foundation years in the real-life context, often in the marginalised communities. It also instils the awareness amongst the students about the power ‘Design’ has to create a measurable social value and impact.NGO Internship is one such opportunity at the beginning of the third year of this program. It is month long and the student is expected to work in location on a NGO suggested or a self-initiated projected to experience design impacting society and explore socially relevant innovations.

• 2019-20

Raah Foundation

"We had interns from this institute and we are extremely happy to see such a well designed course which emphasis more on practical solutions and gives opportunities to students to explore freely and understand the working conditions of any office setups and prepare themselves to any situations adapting to best possible existing resources. Extremely focused and well managed program."

- Mitali Upadhye

The Society For Door Step School

"It was a first year of collaboration with NMIMS School of Design and it was a good experience. Close follow up and timely communication from your end was appreciable. Students were very committed, hard working and sincere. They were very comfortable with our working environment. Their interaction and communication with the staff was very positive. The projects they have done are very unique, helpful and innovative. We will surely use their project solutions in our programs. We had a good time discussing about our concern areas/programs and achieving the helpful solution. Our field staff was also very impressed by their efforts and work. The course of School of Design is also well designed. It gives student freedom to explore and to come up with possible practical solutions. "Learn by doing" is so true and the school is following their belief so well."

Best Wishes to the School to continue the great work for many more years!

- Shrutika Bhosale

Cuddles Foundation

"We really appreciate Anshika’s understanding of the project and her ability to deliver the ‘Khau Gully’ game within the stipulated time. We are a small team that works remotely and her ability to work on her own, and connect with us when she needed direction is amazing for someone that young.
Feedback for the course supervisors and instructors:
Anshika’s focus was more on research than design. Perhaps the school can also focus on building thinking in terms of mood boards, design visuals, etc. so there’s a balance between both thought (research / design thinking) and design (execution)."

- Anisha Gupta

Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme

"Mrunal worked with me at CASP for four weeks. She had spoken to me earlier about the objective of her visit and also visited our office which proved to be really useful as this helped us work out a plan for her internship.
Mrunal was tasked to -
1. Revamp the existing brochure of the organisation which was outdated.
2. Help work out the look for our annual report.
As you can see she was given a clean slate to work on with very little guidance and had to develop her own ideas and concept. She did an excellent job of the brochure by producing a design and layout that is clean, very visual and has just enough information to keep an individual reader engaged and interested. Similarly for the annual report she has produced infographics and graphs that present the data regarding our work in an interesting and informative manner. Finally she went beyond her brief in preparing a colour palette for CASP - though to be honest I don’t know if and when we would use it, unused as we are to the concept. Going forward I would suggest that the institute provide NGOs with a brief regarding the capacity of their students and possible tasks that could be assigned to them. This is because I think very few organisations would have any idea of the capacity of the students and conceptualise projects for them. I look forward to working with students from your institute again next year."

Lt Col (Dr) Anil Paranjape Retd.

Etasha Society

"NMIMS's School of Design students are 'surprise package' when it comes to a design application or creating an innovative design based product. We've had a great time discussing and delving into our concern areas and together achieving the best possible solution. Best wishes to the School."

- Swati Kapur

Industry Internship

The fourth year of the program is focussed on professionalising the student. The year begins with a six-month industry internship with pre-defined outcomes. The intent here is to familiarise the student to a work environment and apply their learnings in professional scenario. Since the program is designed to allow the students to make a mindful choice regarding the one’s specialisation, this industry internship tenure enables experiencing the work scenario in the chosen specialisation. The program has the flexibility to change this choice in the last semester which is well before the student finally joins the profession after the completion of the program.