Delhi Design Festival

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. DDF is powered by USID Foundation (Universal, Sustainable, Inclusive Design for social change…www.usidfoundation.org) Misson & Vision India will have the world’s top megacities of the century, a consequence of unstoppable urbanisation. The government has chalked out an ambitious plan to develop and build 100 SMART CITIES to ensure a great quality of life to its inhabitants as well as efficient utilitisation of resources and maximising ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY – in addition to ATTRACTING GLOBAL INVESTMENT & QUALITY TALENT, SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, and IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIVING for its CITIZEN. The mission of Delhi Design Festival (DDF) is to complement this vision with a series of initiatives that showcase HOW DESIGN CAN BE A KEY DRIVER to manifesting and delivering on the smart city concept in the form of envisioning PRODUCTS, SERVICES, SYSTEM, ENVIRONMENT and SPACES – in sum, the URBAN EXPERIENCE Delhi Design Festival will not only serves as a meeting point between design, civic agencies, governments, NGO's, industry, & citizen but will also serves as a platform to participate and discuss our cities, its culture and making our cities sustainable, accessible, democratic and enhancing the urban experience by engaging with various stakeholders and using design thinking methodologies. This will not only help in enhancing the quality of urban experience for the residents but also help in increasing the tourist flow to these cities. DDF also offers 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 also serves as a meeting point between the various domains of design and offer a platform for Indian and International design/creative/innovative minds and leaders to meet, exchange knowledge, ideas and experience. 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 industries of India and establish Delhi-India as the “Design Capital of the World” in few years from now.