Course Description:
This course is aimed at building-up
awareness on the need for design sensibility to human ecology and arriving at
sustainable solutions.
The course will explore the
larger connected context for the Jugaad as one of the viable but also an
economic, environmental and culture friendly practice. Therefore, rootedness
of it in Indian context, the imperative need for conscious adaptation and
development of entrepreneurial models for practice, production, distribution and
more importantly, the re-instilling of the Jugaad practice as the cultural
attitude.
In this context, the
course will visit the Gandhian / Nehruvian and other ideologies of
self-sustenance and examine their relevance in present-day context, as policy practice
in the developing economies. Also contrast Jugaad practice to other
models of sustainable design practices for exploring the relative merits &
downside of Jugaad in the back drop of economic and cultural impact of
Globalization. These are a few angles of argument / pointers that this course
engages with the aim of enthusing &
enabling the students to develop an approach to channelize their skills towards
a practice of 'social design', with sense of responsibility and pride.
Course Schedule
Day
1 – 19th (Thursday)
AM: Introduction:
Introduction to the philosophy of Refuse, Reduce , Reuse and Recycle with an emphasis on systemic
approach with social responsibility. Inspiration and inputs will be drawn from
successful oriental practices, Gandhian philosophy,
Socio-economic models and
enterprises.
Documentary films/ Ted talks by
Arvind Gupta, Anupam Mishra
PM: Assignment/
exercise: collect junk from
immediate environ and design
useful / aesthetic / communicative
artifacts.
Intro to the format of Mapping the
life cycle of a product / system and expanding the steps into a creative
representation / expression by
visiting Ravivari
Day
2- 22nd (Sunday)
Survey of Ravivari.
Map the life cycle of a product /
system and expanding the steps into a creative representation / expression
Day
3 – 23rd (Monday)
AM:
Discussion and presentation of their
ravivari product cycle maps.
Identification of area of application
and project buildup by students
Intro to course project: ‘Jugaad’ as an ideology & as
an Indian argument for ‘sustainable’ sustainability solution to green economy.
–
DIY / re/up-cycling system design,
–
Exploring seed ideas / areas of applicability for Indian context.
–
Poster design & Personal argument as assignment.
Day 4
– 24th (Tuesday)
AM:
story of the stuff
Ideas of entrepreneurial models, – talk by Rustam
course project continues – present
final ideas with preliminary research.
Day
5 – 25th (Wednesday)
AM:
Classroom discussion on Thunk design
and waste management models of kanika etc.
Project progress review
Day 6 – 30th (Monday)
Review @ 12
Discussion of display idea.
Day 7 – 31st (Tuesday)
Final
Display.
Summery
of learning from the course – group presentation & discussion— course
documentation with reflective note.
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