ISSUES FACED DURING ACADEMICS

• The ice between juniors and seniors can also be seen in the everyday academics work. Due to the pandemic most people have become conformable with home as a working and choose not to stay on campus, in turn this leads to no interaction between batches.

• Interaction with seniors and juniors helps gain insightful understanding into the work and projects that are been done. It open an easy platform for juniors to approach seniors with doubts regarding their design or academics.

Solutions

The most important idea is to promote all the students to stay on campus post the studio hours to increase a chance of interaction between the interbatches.

Some of the solutions are:-

• Make your own tag board

• Informal discussions and presentations regarding office training

• Hands on workshops with group participation

• Informal temporary work exhibitions

Make your own tag board

As students of a design university what we all have in common is a lot of passion and dedication for our work The best way to break the ice between different batches is through the medium of our work, our sharing information related to the creative or design field.

Informal work presentation

Office training is an important part of the curriculum and a subject that needs great help from seniors due to their past experiences.

• The other idea was to hold presentations in the seminar room regarding portfolio making, office training.

• Helps in understanding how the process works and through this increase interaction and make the bond a little comfortable and interactive.

Informal temporary exhibition

• Having informal studio exhibitions of the module that is done with in the most transitioned spaces of the building can help everyone understand about what each studio in doing and hence known places, studios or people they can approach from the very same department regarding some help with their very own design ideas or studio mandatory work.

• Most of the time the case is the students have no idea whom to approach for what.

Workshops

• The idea of bring in people to hold small workshops such as print making, poetry or terrazzo workshops, this helps bring people with similar interest together and hence share similar ideas or projects together.

The idea here is to have small postcard size prints with works of a famous architect, artist, designer, musician at one likes on the side of the tag board. These postcards become conversation starters for people sharing same likings. Hence serve as an informal way.

Solutions

3. Games - as an interactive medium between seniors and juniors

• A lot of people hesitate to start the conversion because of the fear of getting judged or an inappropriate response from someone. Sometimes it may also depend on the nature of the person, he might be interactive but may not be able to start the interaction or may be an introvert

• Games can play a vital role in eradicating all such problems. It can help you build social connections both in real life and online. Playing in teams can teach group work, appreciating others, respecting them, erasing communication barriers, gaming knowledge from our peers and learning from our mistakes.

Designing games of our own - A plus point for CEPT students is that being designers, they can also give an attempt to design their own games. It can be fun, a way to increase knowledge and be creative. The people who don’t like to play certain games can engage in designing the games of their own interest in groups or individually. So when they introduce their games to others, they will go through an indirect interaction naturally by their own without feeling shy or awkward.

It broadens up your perspective as a game is not specific to a person, when you design a game, it requires you to think about all age groups and all kinds of people. To understand them and gain their perspective before designing a game, it forces or allows one to interact with them and know what they think.

Board Games

• Conducting Board game sessions every once a week

• Logical games like Catan, Ticket to ride, Seven Wonders, etc. need a solid group discussion. Thus these board games force each and every member from the team to speak and interact with their other members.

• There can be new teams formed every week so that we can interact with the maximum number of people.

Prototype

The solutions proposed in the above slides can only work if they reach the students of all batches, the best way to do so is by

• pinning posters about the events on some of the most common places of the campus which most of the students tend to visit at least once a day.

• Spreading the word through digital medium like whatsapp, email etc

• And spreading the word through people in the college

Venues where this prototyping can take place

North lawns South Lawns

Work Breakdown

U21225-Aneri Thakkar- Illustrations/ Solution Ideation/ Slide Formatting/ Identifying Issues/ Interacting with people to understand their issues

PCR22039-Anjana M S- Mission Statement/ Significance/ Survey and Analysis/ Presentation Coordination/ Text Proofreading

UG180349-Meher Shah- Solution Ideation/ Prototype Formulation/ Slide Formatting/Illustrations

UIR20263-Rishitha Tayyuru- Solution Ideation/ Presentation Coordination/ User Needs/ Prototype Formulation/ Prototype photography credits

Challanges

Anjana M Sasikumar (PCR 22039)

Formulation of Mission statement needed clarity on direction which was achieved after discussion with fellow team mates. Survey reach was a challenge which was achieved by team effort as we divided and used our network for getting inputs from multiple levels and faculties.

Aneri Thakkar (U21225)

There was communication issues in the third week due to which the work I had done was somehow not put clearly in the ppt but by fourth week we slowly learnt how to adjust and work coordinately. I personally felt there were lot of problems faced in time management especially for me but i think i am slowly improving how to manage my time and accordingly work with others too.

Meher Shah (UG180349)

The challenges faced during this process were figuring out a solution or idea that was very applicable yet purposeful in solving the problem at hand. Further to understand this process we had to have a good understanding between all of us as group members because we also came from different years. Figuring out an idea that acted as a catalyst for further understanding of design and also increased interaction.

Rishitha Tayyuru (UIR20263)

In the starting week of the group work it was difficult for us to adjust our work based on other timing and work accordingly and there was a huge issue in communication also but as the work went forward we learnt to empathise with others situations and problems they are facing with studio work and adjust our timing accordingly and work together.