S - D - P

Sri Lanka Design Practices (SDP) was an experiential field-trip based learning project developed for first year students of the Academy of Design’s Visual Communication programme; developed with the goal of taking students out of the classroom and exposing them to traditional forms of craft and design, challenging them to absorb and acknowledge their own position in the hierarchy of visual culture, design and artefact production, and cultural heritage.

Crafts and locations explored Palmyra weaving in northern Jaffna, laquerware in Kandy district, mask-making in the South region, batik making in Western area, Geoffrey Bawa architecture in Colombo.

Winner of SoGood Deisgn Award 2020

Creative execution AOD class of 2019
Lecturers Anda Lupascu, Alain Parizeau, Anandh Ramesh