Re-considering Sustainability in Craft Title: Re-considering Sustainability in Craft Abstract: This paper explores the collaboration of design and craft for holistic sustainability. It documents the development of product and skilling the tribal community with the use of a renewable material abundantly available – bamboo, in a field-tested project involving designing for sustainability. It provides an insight into craft-design collaboration… Continue reading Re-considering Sustainability in Craft
Traditional textiles and clothing choices as personal identity of Cosmopolitan Indians Title: Traditional textiles and clothing choices as personal identity of cosmopolitan Indians Sub theme: Geo-politics of fashion Abstract: This paper explores a non-western perspective from India, identifying subscribers of a slower and more traditional textile revival lifestyle through their clothing and fashion choices. It questions this individual preference of social identity along with a need… Continue reading Traditional textiles and clothing choices as personal identity of Cosmopolitan Indians
Active Learning Strategies for Teaching Research Skills to First Year Design Students Title: Active Learning Strategies for Teaching Research Skills to First Year Design Students Abstract: The purpose of this study is to establish that teaching research skills, rather than research methods, is a more engaged learning process for foundation level design students at the undergraduate level. Teaching strategies applied in a controlled environment built on Bloom’s… Continue reading Active Learning Strategies for Teaching Research Skills to First Year Design Students
Using Crisis to Imagine the Future – Reflections on the Frame Title: Using crisis to imagine the future – Reflections on the frame-work of pedagogical technology used for remote learning to create a near-studio based learning experience. Abstract: “Thinking through making” and project-based learning being at the centre of our institutional ideology, the pandemic threatened our very core. In this presentation, we focus on the integrated… Continue reading Using Crisis to Imagine the Future – Reflections on the Frame