SMC Wood Workshop Booklet

Innovation and Development

Craft Innovation Workshops

Wood Craft

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Space Making Craft Workshop

About Craft Innovation Workshops Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) at CEPT University, India through a comprehensive “Craft Innovation Workshop (CIW) Model” initiated the concept of “Collaborative Innovation” to catalyze a deep social and cultural change. In this CIW Model, design, craft and industrial processes within the field of craft related to Interior Architecture engage with each other to create an understanding that leads to new synergies. Through Craft Innovation workshops, the intention is to develop “Innovation through Craft” and “Innovation in Craft” by bringing diverse people together which in turn will help in uplifting the value of crafts in society.

DICRC deals wih two types of crafts : SMC (Space Making Crafts) and SSC (Space Surface Crafts). SpaceMaking Crafts (SMC) constitutes of the crafts, which are primarily related to the buildings/Interior-Architecture.

The focus of SMCW and SSCW is on primary materials like Wood, Stone, Earth & Grass and secondary materials like Metal & Glass.

The objectives of this CIW Model are: 1. To bring diverse voices into curatorial and craftdesign processes by engaging them into process of making.

2. To develop craft-design innovative prototypes through collective knowledge of craftspeople and design participants.

3. To conduct exposure and interactive sessions bringing higher level of excellence to all.

SMCW 04

Wood Craft Workshop

28th May - 10th June 2012 Innovation and Development Craft Innovation Workshops Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India

List of SMC workshops conducted: SMCW 01 SMCW 02 SMCW 03 SMCW 05

Wood Turning Lacquer Craft Bamboo Craft Stone Craft Earth Craft

List of SSC workshops conducted: SSCW 01 SSCW 02

Madhubani Painting Gond Painting

Acknowledgements We thank all the people involved in the Wood Craft Workshop for their constant support at various levels during and after the workshop.

Funded by:

Š 2013 Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) CEPT University , Ahmedabad, India.

Government of Gujarat

iNDEXT-c Government of Gujarat

Table of Contents

01) About the workshop

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Overview

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Team Members & Participants

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Details

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Schedule

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02) Framework

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Module 1- 5

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Design Brief

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03)Collaborative Craft Design Process

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Exposure & Insights

Introductory Session

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Site Visits

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Interaction & Demonstration

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Ideation & Exploration

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Creation & Experimentation

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Transmission & Value Building

Appreciation 04) Output

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Craft Design Groups

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Craft Design Prototype Plates

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Craft Design Prototypes

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Dissemination Exhibition

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SMC Wood Workshop Plates

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SMC Wood Workshop Media

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View of the Exhibition Entire Team

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About the workshop

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Overview This Space Making (Wood) Craft workshop, envisaged for 15 days, was based on the workshop framework experimented and developed during earlier Craft Innovation Workshops. The workshop focused on different types of wood-craft practiced in Gujarat like wood carving, wood inlay, wood marquetry, wood turning and lacquer, carpentry and wood working.

The workshop comprised of 23 Design Participants and around 30 craftspeople from different regions of Gujarat. It was structured into various brain storming exercises, discussions, idea explorations and the hands on working with the material itself. The initial days were dedicated to understand the relevant issues related to Wood Craft, the material, the associated craft techniques and craftspeople. This was followed by introducing the final design brief which was focussed to develop Conscious Collective Creativity Space (CCCS).

The workshop concluded with an exhibition that displayed all the explorations by the participants during the workshop and eight final Prototypes (1:1 scale). All of these were designed keeping in mind the allotted design brief, the skills and knowledge of the fellow craftspeople working in each group.

Supporters This workshop was organised and conducted in collaboration with Uniply, Greenply Industries Ltd., Pidilite Industries Ltd. , TDW Furniture Pvt. Ltd and City Heritage Centre.

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Team members and participants

Krishna Shastri

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Jay Thakkar

Rachna Ahuja

Rishav Jain

Pramit Raval

Yatin Mistry

Kireet Patel

Vishal Wadhwani

Rooshad Shroff

Nikunj Choradiya

Jwalant Mahadevwala

Chintan Punjabi

Rudrapalsinh Solanki

Tanushree Solanki

Kinjal Modi

Ananya Parikh

Sandeep Mishra

Romana Schwaer

Sritej Bhatt

Soham Panchal

Jay Shah

Lipsa Rupkumar

Varsha M.B

Anupama Nandkumar

Brinda Sonpal

Shilpa Ratnani

U.P. Chandini

Mitraja Vyas

Vrushali Burle

Priyam Vadaliya

Nidhi Tekwani

Sudha Palepu

Neelam Khetmar

Jahanvi Mevada

Jayasvi Pujara

Dhruma Shah

Sophia Dias

Kinjal Seth

Nisha Vikram

Chirag Gajjar

Abhay Sudra

Bikash Das

Kishan bhai Mistry

Ashish Mistry

Hintaram Mistry

Haresh Sudra

Lallan Thakur

Babubhai Dhulal

Anilbhai Suthar

Chetan Kharadi

Narsinhbhai Moradhara

Shivlal Gajjar

Navneetbhai Suthar

Praveenbhai Gajjar

Rajendra K. Gorana

Balkrishna Vishwakarma

Umeshhai Mistry

Dineshbhai Gajjar

Amit Gajjar

Yogeshbhai Gajjar

Ramnivas K. Oza

Ghuman Mistry

Harishankar Oza

Papu Puranjit Bhatt

Prakash Puranjit Bhatt

Salimbhai Mistry

Haresh Bhai

Rakesh Sharma

Barin Dixit

Ismeth Khambata

Jethabhai

Rathin Ghoghari

Krishnadas Rao

Anil Kumar

Jeeva Bhai

Institutional Representatives, Design Participants, Master Craftspeople, Craft Participants, Experts and Support Staff of the Wood Workshop Team. The workshop comprised of 23 Design Participants (Interior Designers, Architects, Design Professionals, Craft Entrepreneurs, Post Graduate and Undergraduate students from Faculty of Design, CEPT University Ahmedabad and National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Along with the Design participants there were around 30 craftspeople from different regions of Gujarat which included Carvers, Carpenters, Inlayers, Model Makers, Wood Turners and Sculptors. DICRC also invited practicing architects, interior designers, sculptors and academicians to aid in craftdesign development process and give critical feedback too the final outputs

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Details

Dates: 28 May 2012 - 10 June 2012 Venue: Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, Ahmedabad Number of Design Participants: 23 Design Participants Number of Craftspeople: 30 Craftspeople Co-ordinator DICRC: Prof. Krishna Shastri Head of Research DICRC: A/Prof. Jay Thakkar Workshop Organiser: Rachna Ahuja Workshop Coordinator: Pramit Rawal and Yatin Mistry Researchers: Rishav Jain and Chintan Punjabi Documentation Team: Rudrapalsinh Solanki, Kinjal Modi Tanushree Solanki, Ananya Parikh, Yash Shah Facilitators: Kireet Patel, Vishal Wadhwani, Rooshad Shroff, Nikunj Choradiya, Jwalant Mahadevwala Contributors: Uniply, Greenply Industries Ltd., Pidilite Industries Ltd., TDW Furniture Pvt. Ltd. and City Heritage Centre Output: Eight Prototypes Exhibition: 11th June - 17th June 2012 Exhibition Venue: SID Double Height, Faculty of Design, CEPT University 6

Schedule Day 1

Introduction to the workshop, distribution of the educational kit and tool kit, Module 1: Ordering of Connections

Day 2

Module 2: Ordering of Material Ratio + Module 3: Ordering of Expressions

Day 3

Module 4: Ordering of Attributes and critical discussion on the module

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Module 5: Ordering of Theme and brain storming sessions on the modules

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Site visits to City Heritage Centre, Haveli in Ahmedabad and TDW Workshop followed by Presentation by Ismet Khambhata

Day 6

Introduction to the Final Design Brief, and CraftDesign process

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Scaled model making in group along with craftsperson

Day 8,9,10,11 Working on the making of final prototypes Day 12

Finishing of the final prototypes and critical evaluation of the prototypes

Day 13

Panel making for the final exhibition and exhibition prepration

Day 14

Exhibition preparation, Tree Plantation ceremony and Certificate ceremony 7

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Framework

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Module 01: Ordering of Connections As wood comes in various sizes, each component needs to be attached to another one to create a larger whole. Henceforth, there is a need to connect these components not only as a means to create a larger whole but also to explore certain amount of fixity and some flexibility within the joints. It is essentially an exercise that explores the possibilities of how one piece attaches to another. Due to this connection/s, there is a movement that happens of eye from one part to another and to the whole as well as there is a possibility of movement within the components.

Joinery could also be looked as a way of ornamentation

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Module 2: Ordering of Material Ratio This is combinations of different sections and sizes of wood and how we can order them to create a whole with some systematic principles. It will generate some kind of visual and physical structure and there can be a specific order within it - whether it is by geometry or some repetitive numbering process, etc. Main aim is to generate a system which constitutes of different wooden components of different sizes having an underlying order. This entire system should have the possibility to repeat and expand.

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Module 3: Ordering of Expressions Each Wood Craft (ex: inlay, turning, carpentry, etc), offers a particular set of visual expression by which it gets identified. The idea is to generate new set of expressions through surface articulations and ornamentation. The aim of this module is to understand the possibilities of a Wood Craft and the craftsperson and create as many variations or sets of variations as possible. The output can be on bases of exploration of attribute or new experiments based on a particular narrative or an idea. There can be also combinations of various Wood Craft.

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Module 4: Ordering of Attributes Each element and its component developed through Space Making Craft (SMC) in Interior Architecture have a particular character which is what constitutes the design language or style. This character can be achieved through metaphor of an attribute. A particular attribute will be chosen in the beginning of the session, which the designers will explore to develop conceptual ideas which has to be translated in the tangible output. The exploration of this attribute through craft-design will allow in developing not only a visual language of design but also material exploitation. The final design should have a rational basis of development.

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Module 5: Ordering of Theme Within the realm of Interior Architecture, it is necessary to have a common connecting thread (idea or concept) which will bind all the elements together. One of the ways to have this among all the elements is to generate or adopt a theme. Theme allows development of certain visual and physical features which can be repeated, mutated, developed or modified in various manners to generate a consistent design language for all the elements irrespective of sizes or scale. For development of spatial configuration, it is important to evolve a theme on based of the earlier modules.

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Design Brief The Design Brief plays a critical role in each workshop as it defines the scope within which the prototype will be developed. For each SMC workshops, the brief are developed after understanding the craft in detail. The design brief given during the Wood Craft Workshop was as follows: -Taking Wood Craft as a base, create Conscious Collective Creativity Space (CCCS) for the two given sites within CEPT University. Site 1 is a DICRC Terrace and Site 2 is the Double Height Area of SID (School of Interior Design), CEPT University. The main aim is to design various Interior Architecture Elements within these two sites that will transform these existing sites into CCCS. The modules of joineries, form articulation, expressions and thematic models and their outputs created by the group of designers and craftspeople will play an important role in development of the various elements and components for the final design.

The theme and conceptual positions will have to be taken forward in this Final exercise by the group.

To develop Conscious Collective Creativity Space : Conscious Collective Creativity Space (CCCS): •A space which allows new ideas to evolve and incubate.

•A space for creative individuals from different fields to come together and share their ideas among themselves and others.

•A space for discussions, debates, and generating new thoughts.

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Details of Brief: In order to evolve innovative Space Making Elements for CCCS, new concepts developed earlier through craft-design process need to be further ideated and developed. It will be done within the group of designer and craftsperson with the process of brainstorming, idea discussion and development and hands-on material explorations and experiments.

The activities that are envisaged within two sites to develop CCCS will be discussions, interactions and debates, development of ideas and recording them through various tangible means, exhibition of ideas and processes during any time of the day or night. The user group for both the sites will be designers, scholars, academicians of various age group.

Combining the functional requirements along with the earlier ideas various Interior Architecture Space Making Elements will be conceptualised and generated. These elements within both these sites can be largely divided into following categories.

Categories of Space Making Elements for CCCS: 1.Space Enclosure Elements a.Elements which will allow different degree of enclosure keeping in mind the space constraints, functions of CCCS and usage within various time of day and seasons.

2.Space Dividing Elements a.For various types of activities, a certain level of focus may be required. A divider can be used not only for division of spaces but also to enhance certain set of activities with possibility of different characters.

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3.Sitting Elements and Surfaces a.There are many ways to sit and interact. Each style and posture allows different moods and discussions to be generated. Design of sitting elements, surfaces and devices should keep in consideration such possible variations as well as functional requirements.

4.Working Surfaces a.In order to generate new ideas, various types of actions will be carried out and for which work surfaces may be required. This can be independent or integrated with the sitting elements or storage/display elements.

5.Storage and Display Elements a.Ideas will be recorded in various forms – whether it be as drawings, loose sketches, models, samples, handson prototypes, etc. The storage elements allow them not only to be stored but also help in categorization. b.This will allow ideas to be exhibited. The whole process itself can lead to new ideas.

Lighting, Accessories and Hardware will be integral part of the above categories.

Base Criteria: •Integration of craftsperson within the making and conceptualization of the design should be one of the key focus •To understand the role of hand as well as machine is important and hence the utilisation of both should have expression in design.

•Design should adhere to the larger idea of developing Conscious Collective Creativity Space (CCCS) as a group and hence knowledge about other conceptual/ thematic position of other groups and their craftdesign process is of utmost importance.

•Design process should have an equal participation of the craftsperson. Each of you should involve the 17

tactile knowledge of craftsperson and the field visit knowledge in your design.

•Use of multiple set of techniques will be highly appreciated and for that coordination among different craftsperson and group will become very important.

Any group wishing to utilise the expertise of another group member should coordinate in advance and inform facilitator and moderator about it.

•There will be limited set of material for each group and they will have to work within that constraint.

•Existing set of tools and infrastructure along with the skills of the craftsperson will play an important role in the execution of final design and hence they have to be taken into consideration from the conceptual development to the execution level.

Working Methods •Process -Designers and Craftspeople will do a brainstorming in group to explore possibilities of various types of Space Making Elements for CCCS within one selected category.

-There should be hands-on experiments with wood to work out the joineries, form articulations, expression and the final thematic variations.

-Through the group discussions, two alternative concepts will be created.

-These two concepts should be discussed with facilitators and moderator and developed further.

-Once approved by the facilitator/moderator, it can be taken further and scaled drawings/illustrations should be created along with the dimensions -With the help of craftsperson, the sizes of the wood will be calculated and communicated to the facilitator/ 18

moderator who will help in procuring the wood - Final models into the model in MDF panels. Scaled model - With the help of craftsperson, various scaled working prototypes of details, joineries, or some specific part of final design will be created to check the actual scale, proportions and expressions - Once the final mdf model and the design has been approved, actual 1:1 scale working prototype will be created. •Output - Scaled drawings/illustration of the final design along with dimensions and wood sizes - Scaled model of the final design with the last possible details need to be created.

- 1:1 or 1:2 scale working prototypes of details to be generated which will support your final designs.

- 1:1 scale working prototypes with last possible detail and high level of craftsmanship will be created.

Within this brief two specific sites: DICRC Terrace and SID Double Height were assigned to each group to come up with various craft-design explorations related to development of Interior Architecture elements and components. The core idea was to have amalgamation and explorations of various Space Making Crafts together in a single space with various outputs.

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Site related to Design Brief

Site 1

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3 Dimentional Views

Building Details

Prepared by

Address: DICRC Terrace

Names: Kinjal Shilpa

DICRC

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

Building Details

Prepared by

Address: DICRC Terrace

Names: Kinjal Shilpa

SPACE MAKING WOOD CRAFT WOKRSHOP

+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

DICRC

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

Building Details

Prepared by

Address: DICRC Terrace

Names: Kinjal Shilpa

SPACE MAKING WOOD CRAFT WOKRSHOP

+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

DICRC

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

SPACE MAKING WOOD CRAFT WOKRSHOP

+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

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DICRC

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

SPACE MAKING WOOD CRAFT WOKRSHOP

+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

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Building Details

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CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

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+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre,

CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319

dicrc.cept@gmail.com

dicrc.cept@gmail.com

DICRC

Site 1

3 Dimentional Views

SID Double Height

South Lawn

Building Details

Prepared by

Address: SID Double Height

Names: Brinda Chandini

DICRC

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

Building Details

Prepared by

Address: SID Double Height

Names: Brinda Chandini

SPACE MAKING WOOD CRAFT WOKRSHOP

DICRC

+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, 380009.

SPACE MAKING WOOD CRAFT WOKRSHOP

+079 26302740 Ext. - 316, 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

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Collaborative Craft Design Process

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Exposure & Insights Introductory and Intreactive Session: In Craft Innovation Workshops, all participants, facilitators, organisations come from various backgrounds hence an introductory session becomes crucial to create a conducive platform to initiate new sets of ideas.

The Wood Craft Workshop began with a session by Prof. Kireet Patel, who discussed the presence of wood craft in our day to day lifes. He opened up the participants to fresh ways of looking at the material and sensitized them to smaller details about wood craft and its craftspeople. This was followed by an introduction to DICRC and various ongoing activities

by Prof. Krishna Shastri, Cordinator, DICRC & Prof. Jay Thakkar, Head of Research, DICRC. Research material and resource kits were given to the participants which contained reference material about wood.

To begin the Wood Craft Workshop, Vishwakarma Pooja was organised on the first day of the workshop.

In Indian context, Lord Vishwakarma is known as the presiding dieties of all craftsman and architects and His blessings are considered to be auspicious one.

The prayers are often done to the diety to increase productivity and gain divine inspiration for creating novel works. On the first day, all the participants and the craftspeople gathered together to seek blessings from Lord Vishwakarma, which became the starting point of this workshop.

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Site Visits In order to give ample exposure, there are four kinds of site visits which are usually planned during the workshops: Design oriented, Technology Oriented, Culture oriented and Material oriented. The design oriented visits discusses application of various crafts at various scales with distinctive functions. The upgradation of tools, technologies and advanced processes is largely dealt with in the technology oriented visit. The culture oriented site visits aims at sensitizing the participants towards various sociocultural issues and the material oriented site visits cover the technical, chemical and physical properties of the material considering both the scientific and empirical knowledge.

Two major site visits were organised during the workshop. One related to the traditional working methods(old haveli’s) while other dealt with the upcoming tools and techniques (furniture factory).

The intention was to expose the participants to both the scales and to know both the methods. The following site visits were carried during the Wood Craft Workshop: Craft Project

City Heritage Centre, Ahmedabad

Industry

TDW Furniture Pvt. Ltd. , Ahmedabad

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Interaction & Demonstration The craft processes play a critical role in development and understanding of a craft; hence the demonstration of techniques is taken as a first step in understanding the tactile aspects of craft. The interaction during demonstration builds a deep bond between the artisans and designers. The craftspeople often take pride in sharing their inherited and valuable skills amongst other participants.

During the Wood Craft workshop, five modules were conducted which were spread over the initial 4 days: Ordering of Connections, Ordering of Material Ratio, Ordering of Expression, Ordering of Attributes and Ordering of Theme. Each module was designed specifically to explore, understand and collaborate different abilities of craftsperson and designers in relation to Wood Craft. Through these modules, craftspeople could demonstrate various possible explorations of wood as a material with a wide array of techniques involved in the making processes.

In order that all the participants can get involved in great depth during demonstration and interactions can be generated, smaller groups of design participants and craft students were made.

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Ideation & Exploration One of the intention of SMC workshops is also to discuss the role of design in craft and to sensitize the participants towards various aspects of design thinking.

This was done by varied facilitators. The facilitators comprised of design facilitators who discussed about innovative ideas and new applications, technical facilitators who discussed the material properties and principles of the structure and craft facilitators who discussed tools, techniques and empirical knowledge about craft and community. The process of facilitation in SMC workshop holds a key importance as the intense dialogue and actions between design and craft participants anchored by the facilitators help stimulate various new ideas, process and system which is important for the development of craft.

Facilitation was provided by the workshop facilitators like Prof. Kireet Patel, Vishal Wadhwani, Rooshad Shroff, Nikunj Choradiya and Jwalant Mahadevwala who shared their expertise with the design participants and the craftspeople evolving the design process and developing various possibilities of innovation within the given framework. This also helped to understand the salient features of craft and using design interventions as one of the means to come up with contemporary Interior Architecture elements.

Apart from the Facilitators there were few interactive sessions which were conducted during the course of the workshop. Emeritus Prof. B.V. Doshi, Prof. M P Ranjan and architects and interior designers like Rathin Goghari, Umang Shah, Mili Amin, Arpan Shah also gave feedback to various design participants during the craft design process.

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Creation & Experimentation The hands-on experimentation and exploration imbibes the understanding of material and its diverse properties. This process is based on the trial and error method where the learning happens while working with the material by hand. The shared method of different people (master craftspeople, craft students, designers etc.) working in one group initiates new discussions and fresh ideas. Also the learning happens at two levels, both at tangible and intangible levels.

During the Wood Craft Workshop , eight groups were formulated in order to work on the final design brief, which consisted of 3 designers and 3 craftspeople in each group. They were assisted by additional junior craftspeople, model makers and few other master craftspeople. As there was a pairing of craft and design participants together, there was an active involvement of the craftspeople from the initial stages from conceptualization of the designs. They were energetically a part of all the discussions and brain storming process and thus helping the design participants to evolve the final outcomes.

The concepts were finalised by groups after many brain storming sessions and craft-design discussions, with the experts and the master craftspeople Alongside making the final prototypes, there was a lot of experimentation being done by the craftspeople and the designers using Teak wood and Pine wood provided to them. The material resource was provided by the Uniply, Greenply Industries Ltd., Pidilite Industries Ltd. and TDW Furniture Pvt. Ltd. 35

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Transmission & Value Building The Craft Innovation Workshops aim to work with traditional craft skills and processes creating new opportunities and possibilities at all levels. The intent is also to nurture within the younger generations the value of the hand skills. Such embedded inheritance about the craft needs to be transmitted which will insure the future/evolution of craft. These craft practices needs to be continued ensuring the transfer of empirical knowledge of craftspeople. The oral transmission of knowledge has a direct influence on the people involved and creates larger and deeper impressions.

In Wood Craft Workshop, the idea of working handson was helpful for the designers, as they could actually understand the properties and limitations of materials.

During this process of explorations, intangible knowledge transfer took place. This was largely due to the collaboration between a designer and craftspeople, where there was a two way learning process helping both the designer and craftspeople to gain from each other. Final designing became the process where all the ideas and explorations from the all the Modules undertaken earlier were culminated into one single final output. This was done by the amalgamation of the design ideas from designers, empirical knowledge from craftspeople, and technical/design guidance from the facilitators.

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Appreciation At the end, a concluding session becomes important to reflect upon all the key learnings happened during the workshop. The discussions during this session often become a beginning towards taking the craft-design prototypes and ideas forward while reflecting upon the diverse experiences gathered in the workshop.

As a token of remembrance and appreciation, the certificate distribution ceremony often leaves deeper impressions and initiates long term associations with all members involved.

As a memoir of the workshop, a tree plantation ceremony was conducted and ten trees were planted on the CEPT university campus collectively by craftspeople and the design participants. This was followed by the certificate ceremony where all the participants were awarded certificates of appreciation and group photographs by Prof. Krishna Shastri, Coordinator of DICRC as a token of remembrance.

Towards the end, larger issues and concerns related to wood craft were discussed and debated and with reflection on the larger learnings during the workshop, the workshop summed up.

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Output

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Craft Design Groups

Adusa : Anilbhai Suthar, Yogeshbhai Gajjar, Jayasvi Pujara, Kinjal Sheth, Nidhi Tekwani, Chetanbhai Kharadi

Kanji: Romana Schwaer, Sophia Dias, Brinda Sonpal, Lallan, Chirag Gajjar, Shivlal Gajjar

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Gulmohar: Babubhai, Anilbhai Suthar, Chetan Kharadi, Nisha Vikram , Gumanbhai, Mitraja Vyas, Haresh Sudra, Sritej Bhatt, Kishanbhai Gajjar

Asopalav: Ramnivas Ojha, U.P. Chandini, Lipsa Rupakar, Ashish Mistry, Rajender Gorana, Sudha Palepu

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Babool: Dhruma Shah, Umeshbhai Oza, Babubhai, Navneetbhai Suthar, Yatin Mistry, Abhay Sudra, Shilpa Ratnani

Peepal: Harishankar Oza, Bikash Das, Vrushali Burle, Balkrishna Vishwakarma, Sandeep, Priyam Vadaliya

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Neem: Narsinhbhai Moradhara, Soham Panchal, Varsha M.B, Dineshbhai Gajjar, Jahnavi Mevada

Sevan: Anupama Nandkumar, Praveenbhai Gajjar, Jay Shah, Haresh Sudra, Hintaram Mistry, Neelam S. Khetnar

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Craft Design Prototype Plates

ADUSA

DICRC terrace Space Diving Element

Kanji

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Waves and Weaves

GULMOHAR

Site: DICRC Terrace

Millipede

Element: Sitting Elements and Surfaces

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Square section dowels were used to join.

SPACE MAKING (Wood) CRAFT WORKSHOP

by Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University

28th May - 10th June 2012

Rajender Gorana Ashish Mistry Ramnivas K Ojha U.P.Chandini Lipsa Rupakar Sudha Palepu

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Strength and stability is very important for a structure ; Hence method of joineries and connections played a crucial role in the designing of our prototype. Similarly themes also are extremely important for design as it helps in expressing thoughts , moods ,create ambiance, and in defining elements .

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SID Double Height

FURNITURESCAPE

Sitting Elements and Surfaces

interactive sitting surface allows various sitting postures

SIDE VIEW Scale 1:20

Repeatable module Furniturescape Exploration were made incorporating dierent levels and seating positions into the furniture component to produce an informal sitting surface

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Scale 1:20

It was decided to use standard sizes of modules that can be repeated to make the production easier

Side view of rst exploration

JOINERY Finger Dowel Joint

MODULE SIZES Scale 1:5

Wooden members joined at the end with Finger dowel joint Sketch of rst exploration

VIEWS Square Dowel holds the members in position Round Dowel allows movement between members

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First exploration in 1:5 scale

Possible arrangements of the sitting component

Jahnavi Mevada

Soham Panchal

Varsha M B Dineshbhai Narsibhai Moradhara Gajjar

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Craft Design Prototypes

Ghummakad

Waves and Weaves

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OL Family Nesting Table

Milipide

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Warp Weaves Wood

Display System

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Furniturescape

Up on the Edge

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Dissemination It is important to make society aware about the value of traditional craft and henceforth dissemination through various mediums like exhibitions, panels, online and print media are essential.

The workshop concluded with an exhibition that displayed all the explorations by the participants during the workshop and eight prototypes (1:1 scale) : Ghummakad : a space dividing element, Millipide: an exploration of seating element and surfaces, W3: Warp Weaves Wood: a space enclosure cum seating element, Furniturescape a seating element, The OL’s Family: working surfaces, Waves Weaves : a space dividing element, 4X The display system: a display cum storage element and Up on the Edge: a working surface. All of these were designed keeping in mind the allotted design brief and the skills and knowledge of the fellow craftspeople working in each group. The exhibition also displayed various explorations done during the early part of the workshop, prototype panels, exhibition panels, detailed schedule etc.

The exhibition was visited by various architects, design professionals, academicians, students, journalists and locals from the city. The details are as follows: Dates: 11th June - 17th June 2012 Time: 11:00 am - 06:00 pm Venue: SID Double Height, Faculty of Design, CEPT University

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SMC Earth Workshop Panels

Space Making (Wood) Craft Workshop - IV

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre

Krishna Shastri

Kireet Patel

Jay Thakkar

Rachna Ahuja

Vishal Wadhwani

Rooshad Shroff

Rishav Jain

Nikunj Choradiya

Pramit Raval

Jwalant Mahadevwala

Yatin Mistry

Chintan Punjabi

Rudrapalsinh Solanki

Tanushree Solanki

Kinjal Modi

Ananya Parikh

Sandeep Mishra

Romana Schwaer

Sritej Bhatt

Soham Panchal

Jay Shah

Lipsa Rupkumar

Varsha M.B

Anupama Nandkumar

Brinda Sonpal

Shilpa Ratnani

U.P. Chandini

Mitraja Vyas

Vrushali Burle

Priyam Vadaliya

Nidhi Tekwani

Sudha Palepu

Neelam Khetmar

Jahanvi Mevada

Jayasvi Pujara

Dhruma Shah

Sophia Dias

Kinjal Seth

Nisha Vikram

Chirag Gajjar

Abhay Sudra

Bikash Das

Kishan bhai Mistry

Ashish Mistry

Hintaram Mistry

Haresh Sudra

Lallan Thakur

Babubhai Dhulal

Anilbhai Suthar

Chetan Kharadi

Narsinhbhai Moradhara

Shivlal Gajjar

Navneetbhai Suthar

Praveenbhai Gajjar

Rajendra K. Gorana

Balkrishna Vishwakarma Umeshhai Mistry

Dineshbhai Gajjar

Amit Gajjar

Yogeshbhai Gajjar

Ramnivas K. Oza

Ghuman Mistry

Harishankar Oza

Papu Puranjit Bhatt

Prakash Puranjit Bhatt

Salimbhai Mistry

Haresh Bhai

Rakesh Sharma

Barin Dixit

Ismeth Khambata

Jethabhai

Rathin Ghoghari

Krishnadas Rao

Anil Kumar

Jeeva Bhai

This Space Making (Wood) Craft workshop, envisaged for 15 days, is based on the structures experimented and developed during earlier SMC workshops. The workshop focuses on different types of wood-craft practiced in Gujarat like wood carving, wood inlay, wood turning and lacquer, and wood working. It constitutes of Participants (craft and design), facilitators, subject experts and partners. The craft and design participants will be working together as a group on the specific design brief. The design brief mainly deals with the spatial design applications. Within this brief a specific site will be assigned to each group to come up with various craft-design explorations related to development of Interior Architecture elements and components. The core idea is to have amalgamation and explorations of various space making crafts together in a single space with various outputs.

In the Space Making Wood Craft Workshop, we had 30 craftspeople and 25 designers coming together and working on 2 specific sites. The outcome will be various kinds of innovative ideas and development of Interior-Architecture Elements out of amalgamation of various wood crafts of Gujarat. Different facilitators were part of this workshop to develop design brief and facilitate discussions and craftdesign guidance to the participants. The workshop was documented thoroughly through photographs and videos.

This will become resource material for rest of the workshops and to develop an educational model for other institutes.

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad +079-26302740 Ext- 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

Process : As per the workshop structure, the process consists of following modules:

Institutional representatives, Workshop Team, Design Participants, Craftspeople , Contibutors and Administrative staff of the Space Making Wood Craft Workshop

1. Design facilitation was provided by the workshop facilitators. The idea is to understand the salient features of craft and using design interventions as one of the means to come up with contemporary Interior Architecture elements.

2. Interactive sessions of designers and craftsperson were specifically planned to have brainstorming on developing various possibilities of innovation with the given framework.

3. Material exploration was done through hands-on work with the wood along with the craftspeople. This helped in understanding the tactile knowledge embedded in the material.

4. Site Visits to various industries related to wood and its applications were conducted. This gave the participants a chance to look at a larger picture related to a material and the processes involved.

5. Final designing is the process where all the ideas and explorations are culminated into one single final output. This was done by the amalgamation of the design ideas from designers, empirical knowledge from artisans, and technical/ design guidance from the facilitators 6. Prototyping was the last phase where actual scaled prototype is made by craftsperson and designer together using various tools and resources provided during the workshop.

7. Exhibition is planned as the culmination of the workshop, where all the prototypes are exhibited and various different professionals, educators, local artisans, people from various backgrounds are invited to see and review.

Schedule of the Workshop:

Site Visits

Day 1: Introduction to the workshop, distribution of the educational kit and tool kit, + Module 1: Ordering of Connections Day 2: Module 2: Ordering of Material Ratio + Module 3: Ordering of Expressions Day 3: Module 4: Ordering of Attributes and critical discussion on the module Day 4: Module 5: Ordering of Theme and brain storming sessions on the modules Day 5: Site visits to City Heritage Centre, Haveli in Ahmedabad and TDW Workshop followed by Presentation by Ismet Khambhata Day 6: Introduction to the Final Design Brief, and Craft-Design process Day 7: Scaled model making in group along with craftsperson Day 8,9,10,11: Working on the making of final prototypes Day 12: Finishing of the final prototypes and critical evaluation of the prototypes Day 13: Panel making for the final exhibition and exhibition prepration Day 14: Exhibition preparation, Tree Plantation ceremony and Certificate ceremony Dates: 28 May 2012 - 10 June 2012 Venue: Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, Ahmedabad Number of Design Participants:25 Design Participants Number of Craftspeople: 30 Craftspeople Co-ordinator DICRC: Prof. Krishna Shastri Head of Research DICRC: A/Prof. Jay Thakkar Workshop Organiser: Rachna Ahuja Workshop Coordinator: Pramit Rawal and Yatin Mistry Researchers: Rishav Jain and Chintan Punjabi Documentation Team: Rudrapalsinh Solanki, Kinjal Modi Tanushree Solanki, Ananya Parikh, Yash Shah Facilitators: Kireet Patel, Vishal Wadhwani, Rooshad Shroff, Nikunj Choradiya, Jwalant Mahadevwala Contributors: Uniply, Greenply Industries Ltd., Pidilite Industries Ltd., TDW Furniture Pvt. Ltd. and City Heritage Centre

Pre-workshop meets

Inauguration of the Workshop

Space Making (Wood) Craft Workshop - IV

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre

There were various modules that were conducted during this workshop. These modules were planned to explore, understand and collaborate different abilities of craftsperson and designers. Final Design Brief was stated once the module session was completed. The modules are stated below. The details of each were handed as per the schedule.

Brief about the Modules

Module 1: Ordering of Connections

Module 2: Ordering of Material Ratio

Module 3: Ordering of Expressions

Module 4: Ordering of Attributes

Module 5: Ordering of Theme

As wood comes in various sizes, each component needs to be attached to another one to create a larger whole. Henceforth, there is a need to connect these components not only as a means to create a larger whole but also to explore certain amount of fixity and some flexibility within the joints. It is essentially an exercise that explores the possibilities of how one piece attaches to another.

Due to this connection/s, there is a movement that happens of eye from one part to another and to the whole as well as there is a possibility of movement within the components. Joinery could also be looked as a way of ornamentation

This is combinations of different sections and sizes of wood and how we can order them to create a whole with some systematic principles. It will generate some kind of visual and physical structure and there can be a specific order within it - whether it is by geometry or some repetitive numbering process, etc. Main aim is to generate a system which constitutes of different wooden components of different sizes having an underlying order. This entire system should have the possibility to repeat and expand.

Each Wood Craft (ex: inlay, turning, carpentry, etc), offers a particular set of visual expression by which it gets identified. The idea is to generate new set of expressions through surface articulations and ornamentation. The aim of this module is to understand the possibilities of a Wood Craft and the craftsperson and create as many variations or sets of variations as possible. The output can be on bases of exploration of attribute or new experiments based on a particular narrative or an idea. There can be also combinations of various Wood Craft.

Each element and its component developed through Space Making Craft (SMC) in Interior Architecture have a particular character which is what constitutes the design language or style. This character can be achieved through metaphor of an attribute. A particular attribute will be chosen in the beginning of the session, which the designers will explore to develop conceptual ideas which has to be translated in the tangible output. The exploration of this attribute through craft-design will allow in developing not only a visual language of design but also material exploitation. The final design should have a rational basis of development.

Within the realm of Interior Architecture, it is necessary to have a common connecting thread (idea or concept) which will bind all the elements together.

One of the ways to have this among all the elements is to generate or adopt a theme. Theme allows development of certain visual and physical features which can be repeated, mutated, developed or modified in various manners to generate a consistent design language for all the elements irrespective of sizes or scale. For development of spatial configuration, it is important to evolve a theme on based of the earlier modules.

Process and Discussions

SMC Earth Workshop Panels (2’ x4’) prepared at DICRC for the entire summary of the workshop covering the details of workshop, its process and the final outcomes of the workshop.

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad +079-26302740 Ext- 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

Outcomes of each module

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Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre

Space Making (Wood) Craft Workshop - IV

Craftspeople exploring the mechanised tools

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad +079-26302740 Ext- 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

Discussions and brain storming sessions

Wood Craft techniques

Designer- Craftsperson Interaction

Interactions with experts

Space Making (Wood) Craft Workshop - IV Site: DICRC Terrace

Millipede

Element: Sitting Elements and Surfaces

Explorations

Final Outcome

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Square section dowels were used to join.

SPACE MAKING (Wood) CRAFT WORKSHOP

by Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University

Rajender Gorana Ashish Mistry Ramnivas K Ojha U.P.Chandini Lipsa Rupakar Sudha Palepu

28th May - 10th June 2012

Adusa Kanji

Aasopalav Neem

DICRC terrace

SID Double Height

Waves and Weaves

Gulmohar Sevan

FURNITURESCAPE

Sitting Elements and Surfaces

Space Diving Element

Babool Peepal

interactive sitting surface allows various sitting postures

SIDE VIEW Scale 1:20

Repeatable module Furniturescape Exploration were made incorporating different levels and seating positions into the furniture component to produce an informal sitting surface

PLAN

Scale 1:20

It was decided to use standard sizes of modules that can be repeated to make the production easier

Side view of rst exploration

JOINERY Finger Dowel Joint

MODULE SIZES Scale 1:5

Wooden members joined at the end with Finger dowel joint

Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University, Ahmedabad +079-26302740 Ext- 317, 319 dicrc.cept@gmail.com

Strength and stability is very important for a structure ; Hence method of joineries and connections played a crucial role in the designing of our prototype. Similarly themes also are extremely important for design as it helps in expressing thoughts , moods ,create ambiance, and in defining elements .

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First exploration in 1:5 scale

Possible arrangements of the sitting component

Jahnavi Mevada

Soham Panchal

Varsha M B Dineshbhai Narsibhai Moradhara Gajjar

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if you want to add, delete or make some othe changes in the details given against your nam in the voter list, you don’t need to stand in queue or skip office. you can make all the chang es sitting at your home. the office of the chie electoral officer (ceo) has started online regis tration of voters via its website. currently, a revision of the electoral roll is go es ing on and it will continue till June 18, 2012. chief electoral officer of Gujarat, anita Ka wal, said that her office had started online reg istration of voters. “a link is given on our website (http://erm gujarat.gov.in/ceogujarat) where any voter ca go and fill the prescribed forms for addition, de , letion or to change other details in the electora her roll. voters can fill up these forms online and even at- you can log i tach scanned copies of on the websit dNA Correspondent soon start counselling documents sessuch as photoof the state’ sions for eligible candidates graph, identity proof, resiMonday marked culmination for admissions intoproof, streams ai. dence and age proof,” chief electora of online registrations for ad- of their choice. e officer t she said. mission into degree courses according to patel, there are lt she further said that afregister as of engineering and pharma- 59,239 seats inter thea two profesid voter fills up the rele- voter or mak cy. as many as 60,832 stu- sional coursesvant including form,manthe completed changes i dents have registered for the agement quota and tuition fee page with details of the courses this year, up about waiver (tfw)voter seats. will appear on the your detail 8,000 from last year’s 52,605.

“Keeping incomputer mind the numscreen. as per figures shared by ber of eligible students “the voter should take a admission committee for (whose documents wereofverprint-out the filled page and send it to th professional courses (acpc) ified), there still willlevel be 2,000 Booth officer (Blo) for cross-verificatio that organises this admission seats vacant. of also, thosethe stu-details filled online would a s details.

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by Design of Innovation Craft who fared well in all process, documents about and dents n ready be sent Resource Centre (DICRC) of Cept University from June 11-17. The products willregistrations be on display from 11am 6pm onengineering entranceto the officer concerned. afte 57,961 have al- to india ota receiving the details, we would also be verify these days at SID Double Height of faculty of design of the varsity. —Piyush Patel.DNA ready been verified. examination ing (aieee) will opt field visits of the Blo. afte ne. them through “Details suggest that acpc for nirma University, Daiict students whowi fa confirming the details, the changes made Moonset 1231 hrs will admit on 45,852 seats in and agriculture in reflected he beuniversities accepted and in the final electora for Nirma unive courses of engineer- the state. this means more roll,” Karwal said.

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Monday afternoon, we had received about 15 environment guideline that– for example, website hastoa education search tation of right sintu the brainchild forms online. this is encouraging,” she said. makers ofcompulsory handmade paper Light is to moderate rain or of (rte) act, for natureeduca- demands primary who can ever resist going two students of lDwould engineer- engine there are three types of the forms availabl and others. “the idea behind thundershowers tion department of Gujarat education for through a comic strip? tak- ing college – saurabh for voter registration. to enter your name, yo occur at isolated placespach- related topics providing the search engine is to help government has decided he upto age of so ing advantage of this com- eriwala, student of environ- user should choose form-6 but the applicatio reduce carbon footprints, with details of to children in alladistricts of Gujarat introduce class viii in all 14 state and Diu, Daman. and environ pulsion, an engineering and mental engineering against any entry in names is to be submitted i that people won’t have to years consultants a design student have come anushree poddar, a design government-run primary form7. for any objection against additional en travel long distances to get schools of“we the state. up with an innovative comic student of ??? month. are trying to what is easily available closer tries in the electoral roll, the application has t phase one of this imple-so- home,” as per new strip that is not only fun to “as student of environ- popularise sintu through be made in form 8. saysguidelines anushree.of mentation will see about rte sact, i-v o isflower see but also imparts valuable mental engineering, i’m pas- cial networking websites,” p e class aking sintu, 17,000 schools admitting primary section environment conservation sionate about nature and the says saurabh. anushree saysand he class was destudents in class viii. this vi-viii is upper primary Few hand-blenders pass CeRC test messages. ills plaguing it. when we this website also has a signed keeping in mind the development aptly named ‘samajhdar started this project, we search enginewill foraddress environ- section. children of today. “that is The Consumer Education & Recearch Centre's rt rte guideline that which dethere municipal sintu’, the comic strip tells thought that a cartoon strip ment related topics why heare has464 spiked hair, and is (CERC) conducted a series of tests on 14 wellmands compulsory educa-of schools in the known brands of hand-blenders in its in-house the tale of a boy with spiked is an attractive method to provides user with details fashionable! andcity, sintuinmakes tion for children upto ageac- formed lagdhir Desai, adlaboratory. According to the survey, only few brand hair who learns valuable les- educate people, particular environment consultants, mistakes, learns from them of 14 years. officer could live up to the mark in terms of quality and sons in conservation of envi- children, about environment tivists in the arena and indi- ministrative and moves on. he iswith like any state primary educaahmedabad Municipal other specifications. Most other brands were found ronment through his many issues without sounding viduals doing their bit for the other child,” says anushree.

CN inaugurates tion department has tak- school Board. to be lacking in one or more counts. The survey experiences. preachy,” says saurabh. en Weyears thought that a cartoon strip is are an prifor comple“of these, 227 further showed that none of the tested hand building from acid rain to solar a new website marks sintu en two blenders carried the ISI mark. Hand-blenders are of phase onemethod of com- to mary schools people where weabout aleducate panels, global warming to presence in the cyber world tion attractive Sheth CN Vidyavihar te covered neither under the mandatory certification education to evready have introduced class use of public transportation, withinaugurated one newa new ‘samajhdar pulsory environment without sounding preachy (above) Saurabh Pacheriwala and Anushree

by BIS nor the Quality Control order, 2003. ery child, said officials of viii. about 226 teachers of sintu goes on to address sev- sintu’ cartoon building for its strip English every —Saurabh Pacheriwala, student ofand LD Engg College Poddar. (top) one of thier creations the department on Monmathematics science medium school on day. ahmedabad Munici- were appointed as well,” Monday. Jayanthi Ravi, pal school Board has said Desai. as per him, “aucommissioner for higher Relief from cricket Preserve IITs’ standard started class viii in 227 thorities are working hard on duty, constable awaits 5 education, was11), chief be projected Modi, lK in Gadkari’ (June as the prime minalso, the stringent punishschools of the city, 162 of to provide good education years of salary’ (June 11). it is guest theis occasion this time Dna has given due this has reference to ‘iits one must admit thatonthis easisterial candidate. ment should be given to the them coming in last year. with technology to primary a matter of deep concern attended by Sridhar coverage to hockey, specially split over test plan’ (June 6) ily the best joke of the present —V Subramanyan, Mumbai persons at fault to avoid Rajagopalan, “we have appointed two students.” those matches where india hrD minister Kapil sibal is times. atalji was a regular MD stu-of that a constable who sufrecurrence of such incidents.

Educational Initiative; teachers for science and h o w e v e r, r a m e s h fered permanent disability played at ipoh (azlan shah creating a wrong picture in dent of political science and —Kishorkumar J Ved sC decision laudable and Kartikeya mathematics in schools choudhary, who is member while faithfully discharging cup). it was shocking to see the country by insisting on strode like a colossus in theSarabhai.

The new building in the wherecourt classupholding viii has been of opposition in municipal his duties, has not been getthe supreme that we lost to argentina as all iits to join his single cet political arena with the cleanII school premises is built started. last year, about school board, dismisses the andhra pradesh high also not better our position. initiative. this may endange est of image. equating him ting his salary for the past 5 at cost Rs2.5 crore, said 6,500 of schools have these claims by the board as years as he was shown it is a matter of shame for court’s verdict ofthese rejecting even the match with pakistan the quality of selection and with the Gujarat strongman is school authorities. seen appointment ofis11,000 imaginary. “they have the start- ‘absent’ from work. the conthe state government that minority quota reservations depending solely on caste, was about to end in a tie but may not achieve the goal more than belittling the finest teachers,” senior ofed class viii in primary sec- cerned officer has been too has denied this constable a laudable. it should said serveaas a government should add comor the excellent goal by sv that Jawaharlal nehru parliamentarian of his time. as ficial the state tion based but there areecomany harsh and has blindly folright to live with dignity. the of congress andprimary munities on their sunil in the last second. i feel dreamt of — to generate for advaniji, heRenovation has also been inof lesson for education department. schools where there are no Kudos to Dna for highlightother parties toying with the nomic condition. the whole this team will have to work world-class scientists or politics for a long time; lowed the rule book. this crematorium “the same will be done teachers for the same. and ing the issue. we only hope idea of appeasing minority reservation issue is highly much hard. well done, Dna, engineers through technoalthough he did not make it to inhuman approach towards Thursday’s meeting of for schools thatdeciwere upthose and appointed, do not this faithful servant of the that the Mumbai police communities. the court politicised any further or relief from cricket. logical institutes. the step the pM’s post, he has a national AMC’s standing graded year,” he added. have required commissioner will ensure sion should putthis to rest all such stoking of it may spellqualificaa disas—RK Bhanti, Ahmedabad taken by some of the iits to presence which the ‘surgically public must be condemned. committee will discuss all these appointed tions.

Quality of education however, one may hope that that constable sanjay Gosavi moves which can newly be harmful ter for the country. oppose sibal’s diminished’ president of the Exhibition of space-making (wood) craft workshop has been organised byproposal Design Innovat proposal of renovation teachers at these schools will suffer if enough attenwillUniversity not onlyfrom get his for the social fabric of the —Ashok Goswami, Mumbai appears enough. lotus party lacks. if not for anythe commissioner’s interResource Centre (DICRC) of Cept Junedues 11-17. The products willto bebe onwise display from 11a belittling Atal Vajpayee of crematorium in Gota have taken over their astion is not given to the matthese days at SID medical Double Height of faculty design the varsity. but also proper country. instead of bringing sibal,ofon the of other hand, —Pi wi thing else, just for his singlevention in the matter will ward of new west zone.

Inhuman approach and lK Advani signed responsibilities. ter,” said choudhary. treatment. more communities under the do well to amend his plan. minded dedication to the definitely give immediate The civic body had apropos of ‘rss sees an atal in this has reference to ‘injured —Sudhakar Shenoy, Mumbai reservation umbrella — Achyut Railkar, Mumbai party, the former deserves to relief to the aggrieved cop.

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