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Each group came up with totally different tasks and the focus of each was to try and match their tasks to the real needs of the particular location and its managers and users as they thought fit. The Fun Republic Group therefore decided to work on the making visible footfalls within the retail entertainment space and use this visibility as a tool for incentives and schemes for users. The resultant representation was a multi-layered cutout of the building showing all the floors of the Fun Republic Mall and the information was represented on the three dimensional views for each floor. The second group took up the Mithakali Circle and the traffic flows around the circle. The looked at many ways of representing the data generated and found it quite complex since it had many kinds of flows and many needs for which the data could be used. Like most design projects they explored a variety of representational methods and finally came up with their final model. The third group took op the Gandhi Ashram and they made an aerial view representation of the campus buildings and major elements and decided to convert it into a place finding and promotional device for tourists interested in the history and the experience of the locations of special significance by adding snippets of relevant information. All groups were asked to go back and share the models with the user groups but this was not possible due to shortage of time. Assignment 4: Indian Painting Styles & Representing the Self The final assignment was again individual in nature with the group learning from each other’s work and research. Each student was asked to choose one Indian style of painting from the numerous regional, historical or traditional styles that could be explored from a variety of sources as well as books, Internet, museums and collections etc. They were then required to research the attributes of the style to sufficiently understand the characteristics that gave it its distinctive style recognition. This research was then to be used to depict a view or scenario of his or her own home life which they are already very familiar with using the particular style that they had chosen for research. Therefore the student who chose the Rajput miniature style of illustration would depict their own familiar home with their inhabitants in a story telling mode using their understanding of the style that was chosen in the first place and falling back on their memory for details of the images used. They had to give a brief caption to describe the picture for the viewer to make sense of what was being depicted. This assignment was derived to expose the group of students collectively to a large number of alternative styles that could be used and to make the students familiar with image research which we hope will be continued into their professional careers long after their graduation from NID. This assignment continued after the formal class for a few weeks to permit research into the painting styles of India. They were asked to assemble all their explorations and final work and submit a final CD ROM, which was to be supported by an email description of their learning through the course. There was palpable excitement amongst all the students and the groups worked very hard in a highly motivated manner of search and discovery and the results were indeed of a very high quality. Prof M P Ranjan Faculty of Design, NID |
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