AR2013 Making Living Places: Craftsmanship, Song and Imagination

AR2013

Making Living Places: Craftsmanship, Song and Imagination

Focus

Planning and Organizing

Unit Assistant Girisha Gajjar

2nd Year

Adhrita Roy Arin Mayani Kaushil Madireddy Mahek Makani Muskan Sood Nainsi Chaudhari Naureen Sultana Prachi Aggarwal Samridhi Chauhan Sanjana Mehta Utsav Patel

3rd Year

Apurv Shimpi Dhruval Gadhvi Priyang Patel Puneet Mehrotra Juzar Lanewala

The making of our everyday life is not an isolated activity but involves living with other lives and things. Stones and tables are as much alive as are the trees and the birds. Our everyday life is an entanglement of things. And it is this entanglement that constitutes a place. So how do we make things well? Or how do we make places of well-being? Where things share an inner likeness with other things; a relation of sympathy. Like the one shared between a daylily and a hummingbird or the hand and a door handle. This ‘shaping each other’ leads us to the necessity of craft and imagination in the making of things and places. While craft is concerned with the structure of things, imagination is a spirited flight into the world of dreams. But when both these apparently opposing actions do intertwine, there emerges a song: a creative entanglement emerging out of a graceful correspondence between the material of engagement, the action of tools and the activity of dreaming. To be able to grasp this correspondence the learner was placed with the requisite tools, in a practical situation, and asked to pay attention to how ‘this’ feels, or how ‘that’ looks or sounds – to notice those subtleties of texture that are all-important to good judgement and the successful practice of a craft.

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Architecture UG Level-2 Fig 1 Naureen Feroz, Adhrita Roy Place drawings of water pavilion - Monsoon and Summer visions. Fig 2 Naureen, Arin, Utsav, Sanjana Line and color drawings of things in life

Fig 3 Muskan Sood,Kaushil Madireddy

Nesting and weaving- Line and color drawings of nest Fig 4 Muskan Sood Nesting and weavingmaking of basket Fig 5 Naureen Feroz Living structure Plan Place with most affection Fig 6 Arin Mayani Living structure plan - Place with less affection Fig 7 Adhrita Roy Making of a water pavilion - Drawings Fig 8 Naureen Feroz Making of a water pavilion - Final model Fig 9 Naureen Feroz Making of a water pavilion - Processmodels

Fig 10 Naureen Feroz, Adhrita Roy

Making of a water pavilion - Process models material and elements

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