SHILLONG: A two-day workshop on Design Innovation and Adaptation for Tourism was organised by the Design Innovation Centre of the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong on June17 and 18 in the Human Resource Development Cell of NEHU.
The workshop was animated by a team of innovators, graphic designers and artists led by Prof. D. Suppakorn of the Department of Cultural Management, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
Suppakorn revealed the workshop’s key objectives aim at developing stronger relationship between the two participating universities of Chulalongkorn and NEHU which recently signed an MoU.
In addition, the team from Chulalongkorn University also aims at connectivity above mere exchanges between the staff and students of the two universities. He emphasised on the significance of building a connection between the academic world and the communities of both Thailand and Meghalaya.
He also informed that this workshop is part of a bigger project to enable the application of Thailand’s experience in the tourism industry for Meghalaya and it will allow for a preliminary gathering of the state’s cultural background data.
Around 30 participants from St. Anthony’s College and St. Mary’s College attended the workshop.
Brainstorming sessions was part of the first-day programme of the workshop where storytelling elements and motifs were derived from the local culture through various exercises in which the students engaged with the Thai team.
Certificates of participation were also distributed.
