IR2032
Decoding Poetics of Spaces
Focus Visualizing and Communicating Unit Assistant Roma Patadia
Faculty of Design IR2032 Spring 2021
2nd year Aeshna Khandwala Anvi Vijh Dhrumil Suthar Dhwani Sanklecha Kavina Shah Konkona Das Miti Shah Rudram Patel Vaidehi Chikhalia Yanshie Shah Zalak Shah
3rd year Mital Shiyani
Jagrut Raval
Koral Adenwala
Designers, artists, creative individuals— we are poets at heart. How can we design without romanticizing about space? The fact is that poetry does not exist in the books in the library. Poetry is in the journey of reading the book. You change as a person in that journey. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. For the monsoon semester of 2020 we took the book Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard as our dharmagranth, bible, or koran or more as the constitution of India. Ten exercises in the semester responded to the ten chapters of the book. Each chapter of the book was read-rereadanalyzed-torn apart-critiqued during each week. Text provided visual genesis for the design exercises throughout the semester. Students and faculty conducted periodic readings together to interpret and understand various meanings of the text. Students were given specific exercises to broaden their repertoire of elements of space which helped them to build and construct spaces. All exercises were done keeping the text of the book in mind. The Poetics of Space places special emphasis on the interior domestic space and its components: the various rooms and the different types of furniture inside.
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