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SRISHTI WITH NOKIA:
The journey to the Nokia Only Planet Conference 2006 began at the Doors 8 conference in end-March in New Delhi. Friends from Nokia Design Research offered to include the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, in the Only Planet program which was being implemented in design schools across the globe.
Soon after, Nokia sent in the Only Planet design brief. The first task for the 16 students who signed up for the project lay in engaging with the methodology of “dirty ethnography”. The students went out armed with sketch pads and cameras to record and study their environment, especially the street and food cultures of Commercial Street.
Their objective, as per the preliminary brief, was to identify key influences and sources of inspiration in three main dimensions – street (commercial values), society (family values) and culture (aesthetic values). These values were then represented in a set of “image boards”. The process allowed for the categorization of the visual details of the environment enabling students to arrive at verbal definitions and conclusions.
Eero Miettinen, Group Design Director of Nokia Design, Finland, provided extensive feedback on the image boards, their construction and their significance. He then revealed the next phase of the design brief in which the students had to generate concepts for their products.
The students now entered into serious discussions on what values would make a premium global Indian product. While brainstorming, they made case studies of extant products that they considered to be Indian in essence yet global. From their image boards and the case studies, they extracted a “basket of essences” that could add premium value to Indian products in the global market.
Each student sought to inform the conceptualization of their products with these essential values in terms of colour, form, aesthetics and function. Each one came up with several initial product ideas and then fixed on a final single product. An international five-member panel from Nokia headed by Eero Miettinen gave extensive feedback on the fleshed-out final concepts and made suggestions on the potential of some for prototyping.
Of the 16 product concepts presented before the Nokia panel, it was decided that nine would be prototyped - Opium Ray, Shara Shaiya, Plaything, Mudra, Acoustic Recliner, Kitchen Warrior, Sholay, Anubhav Yantra and Bollywood Mahal. Phase Three of the project concentrated on the prototyping, to an extent, of these concepts.
And, finally, at the end of this journey, five students and two faculty from Srishti were invited by Nokia Design Research to present its work at the Only Planet Seminar in Rovaniemi, Finland, November 28-30, 2006. download PDF
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SRISHTI AT THE BIENNALE 2006 : Six prototypes from the NOKIA project became Srishti’s entries, as examples of collaboration between global corporate enterprises and design schools, to the Biennale Internationale Design 2006 Saint-Etienne, organized by the Cite du Design de Saint-Etienne. Five were accepted and are being displayed in this prestigious international exhibition between November 22 and December 3, 2006.
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SRISHTI AT LILLE 2006:
‘ Lille 3000’ is showcasing the multiple facets of India - at the crossroads of art and modernity.
The recurrent theme of lille3000 is the avant-garde, with visions of the future interlinking with the Indian events. Examples include Les modernités recyclées, La Maison de l’Energie Vitale and the Futurotextiles exhibition, where innovation and technology come together in interaction with contemporary art. Srishti worked on the project of ‘Food’ for over a year with a large group of students eventually choosing two projects – ‘Full Fill’ and ‘Street Food’ to be presented in the exhibition. The provided venue is one of the two Maison Folies – Maison Folie Moulins, where an opportunity to enjoy a stimulating journey through multiple facets of Indian culture is created. Srishti showed the two projects in the venue sharing the space with students from ENSCI, Paris creating an ambience of an Indian restaurant.
Two more installations, ‘Eternal Train’ and ‘Rustle TV’ were exhibited at Les Modernités Recyclées - Recycled Modernities – that encapsulates a vast forum of exchange, creativity, debates, installations and performances.
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SRISHTI AT INDEX 2006:
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SRISHTI AT THE ARS ELECTRONICA 2005: Srishti School of Art Design and Technology was the guest institution for Ars Electronica 2005, the venue for the exhibition was the Linz University of Art, Austria. The exhibition was titled “ TANA-BANA – Designing Substantive Freedoms,” which can be translated literally as “warp and weft” and is meant to evoke the ideal of the “integration of communities or societies. The show was curated by Geetha Narayanan, Director- Srishti. Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society. Every year they invite a college from any part of the world that is engaged in the teaching of media art and media culture.
Concept and lead designer: Ashok Sukumaran
Design Team: Arvind Lodaya, John Mathew, Rajesh Narasimha
Graphic Design: Kumkum Nadig, Sarita Sundar
Exhibition Management: Meena Vari, Tara Rajagopal, Shika Chowdhary
The works at the Exhibition
Theme 1: Constructive Dissatisfaction: Dissemination
of Learning and Knowledge
Theme 2: Creative Discontent: Mapping Perceptions and
Problems; Past and Present
Theme 3: The Spirit of Freedom: Journeys
Well Basically, This is About Thomas Jakob – Anup Mathew Thomas
Journeys with Kabir:Works-in-Progress – Shabnam Virmani, Tara Kini, Rumah Rasaque
Journeys with Kabir: The Studio Lab
Where is Ulat Bansi? – Amaranta Nehru
The Train - Arvind Lodaya, Tara Kini, Shabnam Virmani, Ashok Sukumaran
Radio Kabir – Patience Rustomji
We are grateful to the ARS ELECTRONICA 2005 web site for the picture of Mrs Geetha Narayanan puplished on the facing coloumn
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SRISHTI AT The ARCO in Madrid is one of the most important international art fairs, celebrated its 25th anniversary this year with Austria as its 2006 special guest country. "Austria at ARCO 06" was the Ars Electronica Center’s collaboration with MediaLab Madrid, they staged the "Digital Transit" exhibition that ran from February 8 - April 2, 2006 at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque. As part of that Ars Electroncia center showcased some of the best works from their previous festivals. One of the Srishti exhibits from Ars electronica 05 festival "The Lowlands Project" by Vaibhav Bhawsar was shown at the Digital Transit exhibition in ARCO 2006.
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SYNCHRONISATIONS was an international think tank probing
the future of art and design academies and hosted by the Srishti School
of Art, Design and Technology from March 21-April 4 at Vishtar, an artists’
village on the outskirts of Bangalore.
“Synchronisations”
is the first major event of Future Academy, an international research
collective that includes art colleges in the United Kingdom and experimental
studio labs and architectural foundations in Bangalore, Mumbai and Dakar,
Senegal.
Ms
Geetha Narayanan, Director, Srishti is the Project Director and Research
Scholar for “Synchronisations” and Dr Clementine Deliss,
a Paris-based artist, was the curator. >>more
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Khoj
International Artists Association, New Delhi, an artist-led,
autonomous and open-ended umbrella organization, registered as a society
in 1997, organized a high profile international event - KHOJ 2003, in
Bangalore with the active participation of the local artist community
with support from Srishti school of Art, Design and Technology.
KHOJ in
Bangalore for the first time…
Building
on the success of KHOJ 2002 in Mysore (the first KHOJ event in the south),
the artist community of Bangalore once again took on the initiative
to organise KHOJ 2003. This seventh international KHOJ event in India
was held for the first time in Bangalore. It brought twenty-four immensely
talented mid career artists from across India and other countries to
work together and produce innovative and creative works of art in various
media. This two week workshop of artistic and cultural exchange among
the international and the Indian artists, working together on a single
platform to produce works of art and conducting outreach programs in
local communities, culminated in an Open Day exhibition of the creative
works of art, with special viewings for the sponsors and the general
public of Bangalore.
The Visual
Art scene and artists of the 1990s in Karnataka have begun to capture
the attention of the leading art historians, critics and connoisseurs
of art worldwide. With the successful culmination of KHOJ 2003 and the
publicity that was gained from such a high profile event, the city of
Bangalore received greater recognition not only for its prominence in
the IT arena and its excellent educational facilities, but also by making
its mark on the International Arts and Cultural Scene.
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Creativity
+ 2003
Creativity+2003
was a two-week event organized by Srishti, from December 9 to 19, with
the objective of catalyzing interaction between the many stakeholders
of art and design education, practice and industry.
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Aakar
- Earn to Learn
The
rationale behind this initiative was to provide students with the opportunity
to work at the interstices of design education and design services,
to understand the link between creativity and business sense. Students
participated in a learning experience that extended beyond the regular
classroom into real-life, real-time, client-driven design projects that
demanded quality work. Aakaar seeks to provide a doorway to future professional
practice and that its earnings meet part or whole of the cost of various
student needs in areas like generating prototypes, undertaking grassroots
field projects involving travel and stay, participation in national
and international competitions or conferences and international study
tours. The participating students utilized the initiative to do a global
study tour covering art and design institutions in the UK, Scotland,
Ireland and Italy.
The wider
vision of Akar is linked to the need for finding institutional mechanisms
and structures that will enable all students access to materials, conferences
and rapid prototyping in a way that also encourages them to earn the
right to the access. It also provides a means of supporting students
who need financial help by providing a way in which they can earn tuition
waivers.
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dyd
02
The
2nd International Conference on Open Collaborative Design for Sustainable
Innovation was hosted by Srishti in Bangalore at the Infosys campus
from December 1 to 2, 2002. “dyd02”examined issues of innovation
and collaboration in the context of control and culture to arrive at
directions that are coherent and meaningful for development –
urban and rural.
This conference seeks to establish critical dialogue towards open collaboration
in sustainable technology, design and development. We invite diverse
perspectives from academia, industry, nonprofit organizations, and independent
innovators.
The conference showcased innovative ideas and successful projects in
design, change and technology and through a critical examination of
these concepts engaged in dialogues that will result in the further
development of these ideas. The conference was sponsored by Media Lab
Asia, Infosys Technologies, MIT/AGS, MIT Media Lab, Indian Institute
of Sciences, etc.
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Sunoh
Sunoh was the workshop organized in May 2002 as an integral
part of the Communication for Change course offered by the SCOM Lab.
Supported by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) and
Media Lab Asia, Sunoh offered a multidisciplinary platform for designers,
media professionals, NGOs, technologists and educators to come together.
Psychodynamic, scenario-building exercises were part of a process enabling
participants to recognize context, taboos and the problem-web. Engagement
with an issue within a design charette and its three mechanisms –
idea generation and knowledge transfer among affected parties, decision-making
requiring dialogue about emergent ideas and problem solving resulting
in recommendations and proposals as process outcomes - offered possibilities
of coming up with alternative models of communication to tackle HIV/AIDS.
The process also resulted in the creation of a short film titled “The
First Mile”.
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Aagaman
At Srishti,
we believe that art and design provides a lens, which makes it possible
to go beyond looking to seeing, and beyond hearing to listening. It
also provides a framework for looking differently at issues that have
been part of our society for a long time.
Aagaman targets groups of practitioners in the areas of craft design,
heritage, technology and craft training. The workshop is centered on
the issue of design and sustainable approaches to craft, and the challenge
is to use new technologies to tackle this issue. Aagaman was held at
the Ecumenical Christian Centre, Bangalore between May 9-13, 2002.
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