Bachelor of Design – Building and Infrastructure

The PID students attended the Design Mumbai Industry Tour in March 2026. The tour had a major discussion on AI, which was the consistently talked topic. The constant message was AI is a tool that cannot replace human intelligence but can help decrease the mistake and bring efficiency

PID’s industrial tour at Mumbai organised in March 2026. Across the tour three sessions covered independent Indian fashion design from three different sub-fields of the discipline. Sessions were taken by Neeta Lulla, Shubhika Sharma and Nidhi Yasha. They talked about luxury fashion, designing characters, fashion brand with bolf colour everything complied in this article.

The PID industry tour in Mumbai in March 2026 attended by students of fashion design, interior design, product design, animation, and visual communication. Each speaker of the session reached students across multiple disciplines.

In the PID Mumbai Industry Tour 2026, the three sessions covered city’s built environment from three different perspectives. Session was addressed by the founder of Abha Naraian Lambah Associates on heritage conservation, founder of ShrofflLeon shared about contemporary architecture design and Lodha design team who talked about luxury residential design. Following MEP rule for real-estate development.

PID students visited the Applause Entertainment Mumbai office during the design tour in March 2026. They met Sameer Nair, the MD of Applause Entertainment and former CEO of various Indian media networks. The session talked about the uncommon path from pursuing physics to a media journey.

In PID’s tour to Mumbai, students experienced raw and real conversations with the founder of Kapadia Associates, Mr Kiran Kapadia. As a 1980s graduate, he has completed his master’s degree abroad, and he led an exclusive session that amalgamates practical studio operations with practical insights on how design is taught and how Indian cities are planned. He figured out 3 things that every project must establish from the very start – client brief, budget and the site. Besides this, he even shared his views on how he is using AI at his studio and how design is just like a service-based industry, just like law and accounting. Read ahead the full coverage!

In March 2026, students from the Parul Institute of Design visited Architecture BRIO during the Parul Institute of Design Mumbai Industry Tour to meet co-founder Robert Verrijt. A Dutch architect trained at Delft University of Technology who arrived in India in 1999 for an Ahmedabad school project and settled permanently in Mumbai in 2006, Robert Verrijt founded Architecture BRIO with his partner Shefali Balwani and now leads a fifty-person studio that designs across India’s many climates, collaborates on the Billion Bricks shelter project to address the country’s twenty-million rural-housing need, and was profoundly influenced by the work of the late Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The session covered the 2000 Gujarat earthquake that reshaped his philosophy, the discipline of designing with local materials, the regret of leaving his mentor’s office too early, his critique of design education’s individuality fetish, a demountable studio in Alibag built to migrate as sea levels rise, the Billion Bricks Lego-style concrete-brick shelter with solar-park-on-roof solution, and why hand sketching with pen and paper will remain a permanent human skill.

PID students met Gayatri Khanna, founder & CEO of Milaaya Embroideries, at PID’s industry tour to Mumbai, as organised by IIMUN. Milaaya Embroideries has grown from 30 artists to embroidery unit to a multinational luxury company with operations in New York, Milan, Paris, London and serving the world’s leading fashion houses for couture, ready-to-wear, interior design and art installations. She spoke about how her journey started from scratch and how AI can assist with concept (AI versus human craft) and explained the art of maintaining discipline in translating Indian, French & American luxury aesthetics into hand-crafted products!

Parul Institute of Design’s students met Rochelle Pinto, head of editorial content at Vogue India in Mumbai. Her exclusive session covered how fashion journalism works at all levels; she even spoke about her reading habits, parental influence, vocabulary, ethics, fashion journalism, and emotional resilience, which are required to survive cancel culture and instant feedback. How one can lead a creative team in sync with the Indian Design Imagination and by ending Western validation. She suggested students read core dictionaries and use AI limitlessly, read thoroughly and carve their craft accordingly!

From 9 to 12 March 2026, students of the Parul Institute of Design travelled to Mumbai for an industry-immersion programme organised through IIMUN, meeting twelve design leaders across the city’s leading studios, agencies, and design houses. The tour covered fashion journalism (Rochelle Pinto, Head of Editorial Content at Vogue India), luxury embroidery and craft entrepreneurship (Gayatri Khanna, Founder and CEO of Milaaya Embroideries), architecture and urban design (Kiran Kapadia of Kapadia Associates and Robert Verrijt of Architecture BRIO), heritage conservation (Abha Narain Lambah), design education (Ajit Khare, Director of NIFT Mumbai), real-estate-scale design (the Lodha design leadership team), bridal and contemporary fashion (Neeta Lulla, Shubhika Sharma of Papa Don’t Preach, Nidhi Yasha), spatial architecture (Kayzad Shroff and Maria Isabel Leon of ShroffLeon), and OTT storytelling and AI in media (Sameer Nair, Managing Director of Applause Entertainment). The three-day immersion is part of Parul Institute of Design’s industry-exposure curriculum that takes students out of the classroom and into the studios, offices, and workshops where design decisions are made.

AI is making designs more efficient, intelligent and technology-driven. But creative human thought is still very important

Skills like creativity and problem-solving can be learned while doing a Bachelor of Design Course for modern creative careers .

A Bachelor of Design Course build creative skills, practical knowledge, and better career chances for students in a lot of industries .

Selecting the right B.Des specialisation becomes easier when students really know where their creativity, interests, and future career goals are

From 24 to 27 March 2026, students of Parul Institute of Architecture met 11 architects, urban planners, government chairmen, and construction leaders across Delhi. The tour covered Design Forum International, the Delhi Urban Art Commission, the Council of Architecture, INTACH, AFCONS, Studio Lotus, Morphogenesis, Anagram Architects, the New Delhi Municipal Corporation, and the School of Planning and Architecture.