Pune Design Foundation to set mark

Pune Design Foundation, which started its operations with the first Pune Design Festival on November 17, has plans to set standards of infrastructure as well as methodologies for its members in order to lend credibility and authenticity to their work.

Foundation chairman and head of design directions, Satish Gokhale, told the delegates at the first Pune Design Festival that the body would strive to promote design industry in and around Pune and create a definable level of quality in the field.

Gokhale said the foundation would function as a regulatory body for the design companies allied with it by creating specific standards and ensure that the members abide by certain detailed methodologies.

"The members will have to possess the required facility to back up their claims (about their creation)," Gokhale said.

"If a certified design company says it is engaged in industrial design it would have to have the prescribed manpower to back up its claim," he elaborated.

The attempt is to create a "template" of facilities, methodologies and training, which all the members will have to follow to acquire the status of an accredited design firm, he stressed.

PDF will also create a regulatory panel to resolve issues between design firms and their clients and provide guidelines for smooth relationship between the two, he said.