IIAD Delhi News & Updates 2026: Notifications, Notice, Result

The Indian Institute of Art & Design organises a seminar on personal branding for the Fashion Business Management (FBM) students of the institute by the renowned celebrity stylist Shifa Firoz. She has a storied career as a celebrity stylist, working with some of the most renowned figures in the entertainment and fashion industries, helping them to create recognisable styles that perfectly complement their individual businesses. In this seminar at IIAD New Delhi, she talks about the secret to both professional success and self-expression is personal branding. The Shifa Firoz masterclass at IIAD gave students the chance to comprehend the complex procedure for using personal branding to create a brand identity.

IIAD New Delhi Interior Architecture and Design Course Leader, Snehanshu Mukherjee, led a panel discussion on "Architecture Education" alongside representatives from VIT Bhopal, NIT Raipur, the Council of Architecture, and Amity University Noida. ARCHICON, a 3-day international architects conference, was organised by the Architects Association Agra (AAA) at the Jaypee Palace Hotel and Convention Centre in Agra. Prominent industry figures convened for the occasion. IIAD’s course leader, Snehanshu's insights were instrumental in advancing the discourse on architectural education and fostering valuable connections among architects, educators, and students at the conference, which drew an audience of about 200 people, including students and well-known architects like Christopher Benninger, Chitra Vishwanathan, and Shirish Beri.

IIAD, as part of the industry exposure efforts, organises a visit to the Tarun Tahiliani Studio for fashion design students. The students get to participate in a masterclass that reveals the secrets of couture workmanship, by the renowned design maestro Tarun Tahiliani, himself. The industry visits are a part of the fashion design curriculum at IIAD. In this industry visit by the Indian Institute of Art & Design, the students engage with the design maestro Tarun, who imparts pearls of wisdom about the blending of tradition and innovation as ancient techniques fused effortlessly with modern design sensibilities, under the skilled guidance of Richa Sood, IIAD, Assistant Professor in Fashion Design.

IIAD New Delhi arranged a book launch event for the book ‘Young People and Climate Change: Communication and Responses.’ The event was attended by Prof. Matthew Hibberd, an expert from Università Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland, and Alka Tomar, President of the Centre for Environment Communication (CEC) and Chairperson of the Centre for Youth (C4Y). They discussed climate change responses and communication. The dignitaries Alka Tomar and Matthew Hibberd, who took part in the book launch event by IIAD New Delhi, afterwards talked about the critical role that youth play in solving climate change. This game-changing discussion gave young people insightful ideas about how they might actively participate in the global fight to combat climate change.

Indian Institute of Art & Design students from Interior Architecture and Design was featured in the Architectural Digest - India magazine, for their project titled 'Reimagining Heritage' at Sunder Nursery, Delhi. This project received recognition for its innovative concepts and excellence. The main focus was on the 90-acre park run by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, called New Delhi’s Sunder Nursery. The aim of the Indian Institute of Art & Design project was to reimagine the history of New Delhi and how the monuments in Delhi's Sunder Nursery should be made more relevant to modern society. The project was to create a concept for how these monuments may interact with the public in significant ways that recognise their legacy while also being useful to visitors today. Madhu Pandit, Mani Sharma, and Snehanshu Mukherji, the course director, came up with the idea.  The main of the IIAD Delhi project was emphasis was on redesigning for general public use. 

The Sunder Burj, Sunderwala Mahal, Lakkarwala Burj, and Garden Pavilion were the four monuments assigned to the IIAD students. An extensive architectural research, which included structural analysis as well as a deep dive into historical records, was part of the project's first phase. In order to acquire a feel of the contemporary setting they were working with, the students of the Indian Institute of Art & Design Delhi also spent time studying the park's visitors, taking note of the different demographics that came and how they behaved during the day. 

To develop activities that would be instructive to park visitors, some IIAD Delhi students researched the historical or contextual relevance of the nursery itself. The monuments' actual architectural design was brought up by other students. Visitors are invited to stroll through the Sunderwala Mahal's maze-like interiors while wearing blindfolds as part of the Quwwat-e-Mann non-visual reasoning experience, experiencing the architecture through touch rather than sight. The IIAD students then divided into groups to discuss potential culturally significant activities or services that the monuments might hold.