NIFTg Colloquium 7 - The Class

Team - Adornment as Message
Standing from left: Sudeepta, Tenzin, Anika, Suchira, Richa
Seated from left: Priyanka K, Sanghmitra, Samiksha, Maneet


Team - Adornment as Celebration
Standing from left: Saumya, Kavita, Robin, Vivek, Kratika
Seated from left: Ruchira, Soukata, Swaneet, Mauli

Team - Adornment as Need
Standing from left: Ishita, Arti, Priya, Nidhi, Himani, Vidhu, Apurva
Seated from left: Nitika, Disha, Ashwanthy, Vershali

Images from our course last semester- Independent Studies, where we worked on the theme of Adornment. For the first part of the course each of these teams looked at the theme from these three different windows. Through a process of brainstorming, categorizing, structuring and mapping we built a fairly rich understanding of many facets of adornment - in people, traditions, festivals, in buildings, in homes, on animals, on parts of the body, in plants and nature and so on.
Later each one took up one aspect from this valuable resource of ideas for research and documentation.
This semester we will be working on the Colloquium paper, which is an opportunity for each student to reflect on their experiences and articulate their thoughts on their own discipline of design, the practice of it, the process of education, design thinking, design processes, the business of design or any other concerns or ideas they would like to explore.