Our first design project (DP-I) was all about knowing ourselves, our social groups and our community better. One of the most prominent ways to do that is by the means of an Ethnographic study of the concerned group. At its heart, ethnography is the study of cultures. But what does it mean to KNOW a social group? And how do we as designers or rather ethnographers find it out? How does one's involvement in a social group affect its dynamics? How does the researcher celebrates or condemns social practices of the group in his/her writings based on his/her limited understanding of the world? What is the basis of these judgements?
Read MoreRecently watched the India-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh tri-series matches and noticed how fans including many of my close friends react to teams' victory and loss. This got me curious about the reasons why fans follow sports so passionately, to extents where there are chances of violence and hooliganism. The following post is a download of an article written by Shirley Wang in 2006 that compiles the research that attempt to answer this question. I have highlighted the sentences that I found important.
Read MoreModern India is essentially a nation with deep and rich ancient history and culture, trying to come in terms with its growing population and mediocre infrastructure, which just after 70 years of Independence is competing economically with some aggressive neighbors and the rest of the world. What seem to have been the changing agents of this vast nation play a balancing and a counter-balancing effect on its various social, political, religious and economical aspects
Read MoreThe outputs of the second week of Kinetic Sculpture under the guidance of Prof. Ranjit Konkar, Dr. Jignesh Khakhar and Prof. Vivekanand Yengaldas.
Team: Shafali Jain & Sarwesh Shah
Sculpture inspiration: Anne Lily
Read MoreAs a course deliverable for Science and Liberal Arts we were asked to do a comparative analysis of the notion and theories of beauty and aesthetics between the Ancient Western and Eastern cultures.
The articles contains notions of form, functionality, sublime, catharsis, nava rasa, etc.
Read MoreA consolidation of my understanding about Cubism and Futurism which led me in articulating my ideas of my kinetic sculpture.
Ref. Cubism and Futurism by Maly Gerhardu
Read MoreCourse overview and explorations in Week 1 of module Kinetic Sculpture.
Mentor: Prof Ranjit Konkar
Team: Sarwesh Shah, Shafali Jain
Read MoreAs I embark a new journey into the world of design, it would be wise to jot down my initial thoughts.
At NID, as part of our foundation course, the first assignment given to us was to make a poster that displayed our perception of design. Being not very good at poster making, maybe my post will do some justice to the submission.
I hope that as time passes by, my thoughts and ideologies grow more refined.
Comments are welcome!
Read MoreOur journey from starting jamming sessions to organising music classes in PayPal Bangalore office.
Stats for nerds included.
Special Thanks:
Priya Raman, Bimal Singhi
Karthik Paramasivam, Avishek Mridha, Abhinav Tankha.
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