Understanding crafts through an institutional framework of research jay thakkar
India has a great plethora of craft which are embedded in our day to day lives from the functional utilitarian objects like pots to elaborate carved ceilings. And these set of crafts are produced by multi-faceted craftspeople who have acquired these knowledge and skills either through hereditary knowledge transfer or informal self-learning process. Their intuitive skills of nurturing and evolving the craft have constantly revived the age old traditions of making but over the last century the industrial production has reduced the skilled based handwork. This has compromised the small artisanal and craft industries which also means these crafts are disintegrating and vanishing and henceforth posing a huge loss to the society and culture.
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) at CEPT University was established with a focus of understanding and reviving the crafts associated to Interior Architecture with an underlying pedagogy of research and innovation. The core function is not only to conduct the craft-design related projects but also to develop various models and framework which can be employed by DICRC as well as any other institution dealing within this field. Each project is viewed within the framework which is constantly evolving to encompass the project from the vision to an execution level. The presentation will discuss various models of Research, Documentation, Innovation (craft workshop and innovation studio), Craft-design Education, Collaborative Applications and Knowledge Dissemination.
Green School Bali is pioneering an educational model aimed at equipping kids for the personal and global challenges of 2025. From its Bamboo campus in the jungles of Bali, its building a sustainable vision for the future.But it needs help.....
Understanding crafts through an institutional framework of research jay thakkar
India has a great plethora of craft which are embedded in our day to day lives from the functional utilitarian objects like pots to elaborate carved ceilings. And these set of crafts are produced by multi-faceted craftspeople who have acquired these knowledge and skills either through hereditary knowledge transfer or informal self-learning process. Their intuitive skills of nurturing and evolving the craft have constantly revived the age old traditions of making but over the last century the industrial production has reduced the skilled based handwork. This has compromised the small artisanal and craft industries which also means these crafts are disintegrating and vanishing and henceforth posing a huge loss to the society and culture.
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) at CEPT University was established with a focus of understanding and reviving the crafts associated to Interior Architecture with an underlying pedagogy of research and innovation. The core function is not only to conduct the craft-design related projects but also to develop various models and framework which can be employed by DICRC as well as any other institution dealing within this field. Each project is viewed within the framework which is constantly evolving to encompass the project from the vision to an execution level. The presentation will discuss various models of Research, Documentation, Innovation (craft workshop and innovation studio), Craft-design Education, Collaborative Applications and Knowledge Dissemination.
Green School Bali is pioneering an educational model aimed at equipping kids for the personal and global challenges of 2025. From its Bamboo campus in the jungles of Bali, its building a sustainable vision for the future.But it needs help.....
Auroville, City of dawn is located in state of Tamil Nadu, India, near Pondicherry in South India. .Auroville was founded as a project on experimental basis of the ‘Sri Arbindo Society’ on Wednesday 28 February 1968. The basic idea originated from Mirra Alfassa ‘The Mother ‘who was spiritually related to India.
Ma envisaged Auroville as an international township for 50,000 residents on the shape of a flower. Architect Roger Anger refined the planning and designed it in shape of Universe.He placed Matrimandir at the center of this city.
Mary Alfassa in her first message regarding the town stated that, "Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of al countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities”
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This modular housing based in Belapur, New Mumbai, is designed by Ar. Charles Correa. This project, which was constructed in the 1980s, stands as a perfect example of affordable and high density housing, which is the need of the hour.
Wall Murals Enhancing History .Part 2.
This presentation is on 2 walls mural projects. One with the S.Gieger Public School. Grades 5 & 6, 16ft X 8 ft. Massey, Ontario. The 2nd mural was completed with the N'Swakamok Alternative School in Sudbury.
Auroville, City of dawn is located in state of Tamil Nadu, India, near Pondicherry in South India. .Auroville was founded as a project on experimental basis of the ‘Sri Arbindo Society’ on Wednesday 28 February 1968. The basic idea originated from Mirra Alfassa ‘The Mother ‘who was spiritually related to India.
Ma envisaged Auroville as an international township for 50,000 residents on the shape of a flower. Architect Roger Anger refined the planning and designed it in shape of Universe.He placed Matrimandir at the center of this city.
Mary Alfassa in her first message regarding the town stated that, "Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of al countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities”
.
This modular housing based in Belapur, New Mumbai, is designed by Ar. Charles Correa. This project, which was constructed in the 1980s, stands as a perfect example of affordable and high density housing, which is the need of the hour.
Wall Murals Enhancing History .Part 2.
This presentation is on 2 walls mural projects. One with the S.Gieger Public School. Grades 5 & 6, 16ft X 8 ft. Massey, Ontario. The 2nd mural was completed with the N'Swakamok Alternative School in Sudbury.
2. Art in the Community: Ban-toe Village
Mosaics, Taiwan
3. THE CRAFTS THAT RESTORED A VILLAGE
• Her, Kelly (2012). The crafts that restored a village [Bantoe). Taiwan
Review, 62(7), pp. 42-47. The folk artist Chen Shong-Zheng created mosaics
by cutting low fire porcelain clay (koji) and &pasting [jiannian] then into a
stucco frame. This clay type & style a is typical temple sculpture. See
http://taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=192036&CtNode=1337&mp=1
4. Elementary school students paint
ceramic tiles at Bantaoyao’s workshop.
(Photo by Chang Su-ching)
One must master several techniques including
drafting, shaping, carving, glazing and cutting, as well as have good
concentration and endurance. “Nowadays, most young people are
reluctant to take on manual jobs, while temples largely prefer to use
cheaper, pre-molded ridge decorations rather than commission handmade
pieces due to the cost,” Hsieh says. “So these traditional temple crafts
have become sunset industries and are likely to disappear if nothing is
done to save them” (Hsieh Jin-xu (謝錦旭), 47, is a senior craftsman
5. The Community is My Canvas
In another example of
community arts
restoration, Asst.
Professor Chi-Hsiang
Chang, Dept. of Fine
Arts, Tainan University
of Technology gave a
tour of his community
murals in his home
Guanmiao Village
Township in Tainan
County.
6. With his supportive wife and kids, this sincere, dutiful
son, moved back to help his mother at 83. He started painting
this community project—Village Farm Mural -- 9 years ago in his
mother's home. Lots of beautiful memories!