> [!Meta]+ Meta > PageType:: #organisation > Country:: #India > Website:: https://cept.ac.in/ ### About CEPT University focuses on understanding, designing, planning, constructing and managing human habitats. Its teaching programs aim to build thoughtful professionals, and its research programs deepen understanding of human settlements. We have recently got a grant for an international collaborative project - “Threads of Innovation (TOI)'' Project (2021 - 2025), which is an Academic Research Project between the Faculty of Design at CEPT University and the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway. This project has been awarded UTFORSK 2020 by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, administered by Diku - Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education. The academic studios Celebrating Crafts and Reimagining the Vernacular (by Jay Thakkar) and Craft + Future (by Rishav Jain) at the Faculty of Design are part of TOI. This project is coordinated by Aleksandra Raonic, Associate Professor at Department of Architecture and Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Design, NTNU and Jay Thakkar, Associate Professor at Faculty of Design, CEPT University and Co-Founder, DICRC, CRDF. TOI project proposes a collaborative educational platform that combines the design studio culture and teaching pedagogy with traditional craft practices in NTNU, Norway and CEPT, India. TOI makes way for two kinds of alliances – one which is cross-disciplinary, between design, architecture and crafts, and the other cross-cultural, between Norway and India. The students, faculty members, craftspeople and professionals continuously engage with each other and enrich the bipolar cultural knowledge in crafts, design and architecture throughout the program through knowledge sessions, site explorations, common assignments and workshops in the hybrid academic model - online and physical.