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‘Brainstorming Workshop on Design’ An exploratory search for a design language Various cases:
- From Icons to Built Forms - From Technology to Design of Cities: A case of Varanasi - From levels of Design to an Ensemble: a Systems Approach
Prof. Partha P. Chakraborti, Director, IIT Kharagpur
&
Dr. Joy Sen, ARP & SIDM
Dr. Saikat Paul, ARP
Dr. Haimanti Banerji, ARP
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The premise: What is Design ? Design: a Process of Creative Culture -A holistic streamline - An assimilation and consolidation: An embedding - A cyclic flow (non-linear) of themes (linear) over time Q:
• Is it to serve History and civilization: search of roots? • Is it based on language, literature of various systems of aesthetics: scientific, artistic and technological expressions? • What is the role of Cognitive mechanisms: Individual needs and collective aspirations?
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QUESTIONS
Is there a design language? How? A search : Is there a deeper layer? What are the surface parameters?
In search of a Core? Is there one?
Is there an inner surge for creativity?
What is a design optimization yardstick?
What are the ground realities?
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Part One: Various cases From Icons to Built Forms to Technology
Is there a point of Convergences? &
Is Divergences an absolute characteristics?
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Cases 1: Diverse iconographic footprints 2D Topological Constructs:
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Cycles/ crossing serving normative-cognitive functions: Vajra (Buddhism) Greek cross (Christianity) Carnot’s cyclic network
Patterns of Creation: Auroville Sustenance: Galaxy Destruction: Cyclone
Cases 2: Diverse built-environ footprints of 3D- Design Built Spaces and Flows:
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Spaces to levitate Mandala: Temple Char-Bagh: Taj Mahal Kirk: Basilica – St. Peter’s
Apsidal Chaitya Hall: Karli Gothic Cathedral
Cases 3: Diverse Taxonomy of 3-Dimensional weaving textures:
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Design of Algebraic patterns and texture coding: iterations Persian Carpets Old and New Garden City Layouts Computer Algorithm
0 180 360M
Part Two: Varanasi An exploration: History and Continuity in Design
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Cases: the design of an ancient City Pattern of crescent
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Varanasi’s sacred geography (McKim Malville)
Place (Geography ) Folk-Work (Anthropology-Economics) Shape grammar (Cosmic) From Judea to Babylon (repetitive patterns in comparative history)
Case of Varanasi: Sacred geometry 3000+ years of global assimilation and flow Ghats (Space: jth): Tirthankaras (Users ith)
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Girnar-Junagarh,
Palitana
Sahyadri caves,
300 B.C
Gandhara
600 B.C.
Indus Valley
civilization,
3000 B.C.
Persian Empire, 700
B.C.
The Design of Ghats: A natural transformation
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1900
2010
Reciprocal design constructs: Modulation of built forms
sacred isolated to sacred agglomerated
individual meditation to socio-cultural festivity
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Part Three: A systems Approach Parts and Whole and their inter-dynamism
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Dimensions – what are they?
A systems approach: from linearity to co-evolution
A Design-Designers’ interaction
Deeper Fractalization (deconstruction) and Ellipsis or re-construction to Holism
Whole (Ensemble)
Orchestration in Design
From First to Third order Cybernetics & beyond
‘A Meta state (seed)’
Systems Approach to DESIGN: from reductionism to Holism from optimization to Creativity epistemological and ontological
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Universal Approach to DESIGN: From Individual to Universal A balance between Specialization & Inclusion
Pyramid of Inclusion
Personal assistance
Individual adjustment and aid
Adjustment for Specific
group
Universal design
City Beautiful Park Movement Housing Reform Social reform Municipal reform Master Planning and City Functional
Articulation of theories and methods in planning Social scientists
Comprehensive LU planning Planning and Zoning Legitimisng landuse planning as local government function
Criticisms on planning effectiveness, methods, unitary and homogenizing premises
De-constructing Principles of Designing Social Systems – Communities and Cities
Visibility
Awareness
Accountability
Externalization
Combination
Internalization
Socialization
Polanyi’s epistemological investigation Knowledge Conversion Process
propositional knowledge
knowledge that
acquaintance-knowledge
functional application level
awareness level
expert level
highest level of competence (specialist)
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Preparadigm
(competing schools of thoughts –
absence of consensus)
Paradigm development
(foamalisation of paradigm –
consensus evolves)
Paradigm Anomaly
(violation of paradigm –
phenomenon cannot be explained or
resolved)
Paradigm articulation
(paradigm governs research efforts –
extension of paradigm)
Based upon Thomas Kuhn’s process of scientific revolutions
1 Evolving process: from formulation to experience
cumulative causation
Physical Cartesian
Mental Habitual
Cognitive Mythical
Cosmological All-pervasive Non-Cartesian
Greater TIME
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2 Involvement of Seed Constructs in Design
A priori: A seed to begin with
• Decomposition of patterns and
their re-composition or ellipses in a pattern hierarchy – the Whole [1].
• Recognitive mechanisms in the pattern hierarchy
• From Hierarchy to Holarchy [1] Alexander, C.: The Timeless Way of Building, Oxford University Press, New York (1979).
Linear Focus = non-linear binary of decomposition & ellipsis
A language of DESIGN
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Seeking a platform for a design language An ensemble: a systems approach epistemological and ontological
Return to Core Seed: Creative Impulse
Inspiration (imaginary variations)
Optimization of a Design (logic and reason)
The ground centric + people centric reality (instincts)
Decomposition and Ellipsis
Optimization (Centrifugal)
Creativity (Centripetal)
based pedagogy
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ANSWERS
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