IR2032 Decoding Poetics of Spaces

IR2032

Decoding Poetics of Spaces

Focus

Visualizing and Communicating

Unit Assistant Roma Patadia

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.

Design UG Level-2 Fig 1 Anvi Vijh Sectional perspective of Diaphanous Nest Fig 2 Konkona Das The ice inside the dwelling melts to create beguiling sculpures Fig 3 Konkona Das The snow descends into my dwelling in winters Fig 4 Konkona Das Dwelling in the ice scapes of Arctic Fig 5 Kavina Shah Dwelling in a sequestered iceberg Fig 6 Kavina Shah Carving an ice cave Fig 7 Vaidehi Chakhalia Dwelling of crocheted roots Fig 8 Vaidehi Chakhalia Inter-twining of roots to create an enclosure Fig 9 Vaidehi Chakhalia Weaving leaves into a blanket Fig 10 Yanshie Shah A Mellow amidst the green Fig 11 Yanshie Shah An intertwined structure made of wines forming voids

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Faculty of Design IR2032 Spring 2021

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