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Outreach Activities @ NID Haryana

Extending Design Engagement Beyond the Institute
To make design accessible beyond the studio by empowering communities, institutions, and individuals to use design as a tool for learning, collaboration, and positive social impact.

The Design Outreach activities at the National Institute of Design, Haryana (NIDH) connect design education with real-world needs. Through public-facing programs and community engagement, the initiative extends NIDH’s design expertise to support awareness, participation, and problem-solving across diverse contexts to help people better understand how design can improve everyday life, services, and systems.
Our Approach: Collaborative, Context-driven, Impact-oriented

Our Focus Area

Design Literacy 
We build awareness about design thinking and creative problem-solving through design sensitization workshops, learning programs with schools, institutes, individuals/non-designers to recognize challenges, communicate ideas, and engage meaningfully with design processes.

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Design Advocacy 
We advocate the value of design and see how design can improve inclusive, ethical, sustainable, and human-centered design practices (address real-world challenges). It involves Public events and dialogue through talks, exhibitions, open days, symposiums, etc.

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Design Intervention
Our design clinics offer Short practical engagements, participatory workshops to assess needs of communities, SHGs, nonprofits, and small enterprises. Designers and students work closely with participants to understand needs, and find simple, useful actionable design responses/ way forward.

Get Involved
Participate in our programs, collaborate on projects, or engage with our design clinics to explore how design can create positive change.

Write to us at:
outreach@nidh.ac.in

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