PANNA

Whole is made of parts Parts make the whole Whole affects parts Parts affects whole Whole is whole, part is part Nikhilji's music demonstrates how a new understanding of whole(Raag) is created. His work on parts(Swar Vistar) make a new effect of the whole(Raag) and they say Raagas are not created by man (Apourasheya). He affects the creation of 'nonman' Thats why it feels eternal. Well its damn abstract! Gestalts haven't dealt with "Whole is whole, part is part" concepts. This is very Indian! :-)

Last week was a week of great classical music. I was lucky to listen to Vidhushi Vasundara Komkali, Aarti Tayi, Dr Rajam, Ustad Rashid Khan....aur kya chayiye! Styles were all different and character of rendering was a treat to listen. Some words /concepts caught my attention. Elaboration - extension of series Improvisation - addition of interest Abstraction - putting oneself in new situation Expression - rendering sensual Pattern - arrangements of beauty Composition - significant structure Cycle - a start to completion

A hut teaches a lot. It gives a definition of need. Hut is basically a bed room. When someone sleeps, he probably needs protection and a little privacy so the idea of walls come in. Almost all other activities used to happen outdoor. Bathing, cooking, eating, work, entertainment, learning....all of these used to happen outside the hut at least in India. It is quite wonderful that all of these activities have become indoor in modern world. This gives a great clue for design. Why do people come to architects? May be it is difficult to address their own needs and probably see their spatial requirements. What I mean here is, for various activities of living there will exist an spatial requirement. Lets say we can solve this by simply working out dimensions. Dimensions are truthful as we can measure it. But this might not suffice completely. Needs for walls or spatial division comes out of either protection or privacy. If I look at todays urban requirement for a young couple who are working...

-Introduced in 1980's after the invention of Computers though the phenomena existed from the birth of life -Creating the behavior of technical, biological, environmental and organizational systems (wiki) -Exchange of operations between man and objects containing the computers/earlier- machines -It does not promise happy people to people interactions fully -A profession which grew of a need to make computers easy to use -Operations of screens, buttons, mouse, joystick, stylus, gesture sensors, touch screens to use objects -Creating new design using all the above to operate some needs of life -It has nothing to do with improving the quality of interactions between people -It only facilitates by connecting people by technology like enabling two people talk, using information of need. -Interaction designers are fed with user research -Bad interaction design can lead to great disasters -It can make the use of object extremely confusing, irritating and annoying -After many in...

Life – Watch, feel, understand, connect, listen and get serious Essence – Observe, feel, and get inspired Abstract – Convert, capture the essential, eliminate unwanted Express – with precision, enjoy the new language, add Solve – with passion; see the problem as challenge, use wit Know – your constraints Finish – with patience, with clarity, with satisfaction, with enthusiasm, check for new beauty Present – Silently Learn

I have often encountered this peculiar situation when the final design looks very different from what was imagined. Most of the design process is imagining a concept. Ideas in mind are sketched, drawn, detailed,prototyped, colored etc and later produced. When the concept is produced you see the real. For me at-least, the real needs a lot of work quite different from how you had imagined about the concept. Designers often live in the world of conceptions and forget to see the real, physical form. I have heard graphic designers failing badly while creating symbols, symbols start looking like something else and dangerously change meaning. Architect often dream about great spaces and end up creating clumsy corridors. One of my famous teacher architect once contemplated that the space he created was like the outer 'Prakara' of the chidambaram temple but for me it looked grossly like a simple huge space with no feeling of any sort of wall what so ever. I have seen Product Designers s...

Craft Education should be just like our traditional classical music learning. Sa- Vertical strips Re- Horzontal Ga - Simple mat Ma - Diagonal Pa - Diagonal mat dha - lock ni - edge lock sa - bowl Kalyan that - Naga bowls Pooriya that - Manipur weaves In conversation with Rao. :)