By LOkesh Ghai
Excerpts from what the students learnt and extracted from the course.
Excerpts from what the students learnt and extracted from the course.
Sulagna Biswas
"I felt ‘JOY’ while making the quilt."
Farhan Ibnee Abid
"I enjoyed being spontaneous. I learnt taking risks. I experienced how by taking risks one can do something completely new! There was some ‘Indian- ness’ about the course. I felt I connected to my own culture in a contemporary way!"
Meenal Nagrale
"I learnt how to abstract a theme and not just literally translate.
While sourcing, I learnt how we can work in a small budget and how to negotiate prices."
Smriti Bharti
"We as ‘designers’ have many constraints in our mind, which the artisans don’t have. They make what makes them happy. During the session, I learnt how to work on a simple idea, while maintaining its basic essence to create a new design.
I learnt to appreciate basic elements of our life, how one can celebrate while ‘making’. I enjoyed the course the idea- about drawing with fabric."
Rahul Dattatray Kumbhar
"I experienced that working with hands has emotions (I made a completely handmade quilt). There are no emotions working with a machine as the machine follows an algorithm. The hand changes this.
Working with artisans we learnt the skills and a philosophy. I learnt how contrast in colours could be used to an advantage.
I can now apply soft materials in automobile, the idea of personalised: handmade for luxury cars."
Megha Joshi
"I learnt to be patient. While working I developed a good understanding of teamwork. I learnt through the experience of the artisan.
The course was ‘my-type’, as I love colours. I have learnt how to apply colours in different ways.We as ‘designers’ think in a very linear way, where as the artisan think in a different way where they manage working with even little recourse, I have maintained the same spirit in my work!"
Madhumitha Chandrasekharan
"I learnt about co-working, patience, valuing artisans and their knowledge. I learnt how sustainably can be a concept to make valuable designs."
Ashish Kumar
"It is a challenge to work in constraints, working with blocks gave me a different perspective to think."
Arya Prabhakaran
"I am happy to have achieved movement with applications of colours.
It could have been more constructive if we had one to one partnership with the artisan! While ‘making’ with the artisans I gained a fresh perspective about finding a practical solution to a problem (design/technique)."
Manupriya Singh
"I thought it will be very difficult to communicate with the artisan, but surprisingly they were in sync with what I was thinking!! Communication was not a problem. I leant how to work in a team."
Kavya D
"I enjoyed using new materials. I have never co-designing before; this helped me break my shell. The process of teaching was really good. Sourcing materials was a new experience.
I learnt how to sit in one place and work. I learnt patience!"
Parag Ajit Chitale
"I learnt time management and planning the work and following it vigorously."
Amrasha Bafna
"I learnt about colour and composition. I learnt how to not waste and how to utilise things to the fullest. As a textile student now I would not throw things anymore.
I have to go for my craft documentation, this course was a good preparation as I leant how the artisans think, their skill level, and I also learnt abstraction. I was struck by the fact that how the artisans make happiness with little things in their life."
Surbhi Sanjay Jalan:
"I have never visited an artisan's house before; it was good to see how their houses were clean and their families were so very lively."
