Yes we can!!

Can we support a brick with one A4 copier sheet? yes we can!

2 bricks?

ofcourse!

2 bricks and a whole lot more?

Black boards from our classes last week

Through out our discussions last week we were noting key words that came up on the blackboard as we went along. So the black board became a chronicle of classroom discussion. These are images of the blackboards (inverted for readability) at end of the day. Unfortunately I seem to have missed photographing the board on 2 days, which is sad because on one of the days we had a wonderful session about the natural environment and the man made environment.
Just so we can recall the rich and thoughtful reflections that flow in the class, Ranjan photographs the black board and makes it available to the students in our dcc class at NID. I thought it would be a good idea to repeat the practice here at IICD.

Design Council - About Design Methods

The site of the Design Council UK, is a rich resource with case studies, articles, etc all related to the practice of design. Recently saw that they have an interesting section on Design Methods - take a look.

Each one discussing their individual products

The entire class's products

Tea break

Students from another class enjoying a cup of tea

while we wait for our tea to arrive

Smiling 'M's - Maulshree, Minal, Mandavi

Panditji who has a tea stall just outside the IICD gate finally arrives - with a kettle of tea and a stack of plastic cups in his pocket.

Design Methodology IICD 09 -The Course

The images in the last post of all the students are from the first day of the class. This blog has been set up midway through our course, after the conclusion of the first week. The entire course is for 3 weeks.
During this course we are looking at design processes of investigation, analyses, mapping and synthesis. Identifying design opportunities and creating appropriate design interventions. We will look at real life contexts and engage with issues and perspectives impacting design. These explorations are intended to set in motion a process of questioning, searching for directions and hopefully students will develop their own methods in response to varied design challenges.

Design Methodology IICD09 - The Class

On day one of the class - the 'dancers' group, performing for the class (click on images to view larger size)

Watching other performances -sitting:Aditi Dhurka, Panchali Harsh. standing: Mandavi Yadav, Durgesh Khatri, Manoj Dangoria

'Architects' group performing

Architects Group - seated from left: Jitendra Yadav, Minal Maheshwari, standing: Gargee Bhattarcharjee, others are from the dancers group

'Doctors' group in performance

Watching - Jagdish Kumar

The lady 'Doctors' - from left Pratigya Beniwal, Maulshree Garg and Swati Gupta