About the project

Villianur Terracotta Craft by Villianur Terracotta Craft Cluster, Puducherry CBDP 2025 | NIFT Chennai | F&LA | Semester 7 | Batch 2022–26 The Craft Based Design Project at the GI-tagged Villianur Terracotta Craft Cluster, Puducherry, provided students with hands-on exposure to terracotta as a traditional craft and production system. Students learned clay preparation, wheel throwing, shaping, drying, firing, finishing, and packaging, while understanding material behaviour and production realities.

NIFT Chennai offers a vibrant and well-equipped campus designed to support learning, experimentation and creative practice. Its infrastructure brings together specialised studios, laboratories, workshops, classrooms, resource centre and collaborative spaces that cater to diverse disciplines across fashion and design.

The two-year Master of Fashion Management programme, offered by the Department of Fashion Management Studies, develops professionals for the business, management and strategic dimensions of the fashion industry. The curriculum integrates fashion marketing, merchandising, buying, retailing, sourcing, supply chain management, business analytics, brand and strategic management, global marketing, luxury fashion and entrepreneurship.

The two-semester Foundation Programme forms the common starting point for undergraduate education at NIFT, bringing Design and Fashion Technology students together through a shared learning experience in Design and Technology fundamentals. The programme develops core skills in visualisation, communication, creative thinking, material exploration and digital tools, while introducing students to fashion, technology, sustainability and the wider design ecosystem.