Seeing, Doing, Being Design
Field Experiments, Onsite Research
Chickpete, the heart of Bengaluru's Marketplace was a place of interest considered for this project. Conducted on-site explorations and field visits to decipher human and non-human actors in spaces as a sense of gathering. Here I was able to distinguish landmarks that were quintessential for center points of rendezvous and references, created an annotated overlay map to display points of my conduct and investigations.
The project theme elaborates on Seeing, Doing, Being: design as to draw and explore a notion of design away from the capitalistic viewpoint of Human Centric Design.
It is to implore conceptualized and imaginative alternatives to the Capital infested HCD while being situated and responding to places and communities. It started off with a central positioning question as to what sort of human-centered design practitioner could I become? and the project facilitates and fosters possibilities to engage and explore personal ventures to that question.
Gathering Spaces addresses spaces where human and nonhuman actors contribute to space design consisting of artifacts and systems, how to observe and position their visibility in these spaces, and the various ways of gathering and assembly depending on the nature of gathering spaces and the other human and nonhuman actors shaping the space. The project is oriented towards enabling multiple practices in creative forms, anchoring in auto-ethnographic design and focusing on unraveling questions around seeing vs. not seeing, being and not being in spaces, reflective learnings on ourselves and kinds of design projections we inform in our practices, judging the suitability of metaphors pulled from spaces and positioning within a body of work.
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It is to implore conceptualized and imaginative alternatives to the Capital infested HCD while being situated and responding to places and communities. It started off with a central positioning question as to what sort of human-centered design practitioner could I become? and the project facilitates and fosters possibilities to engage and explore personal ventures to that question.
Gathering Spaces addresses spaces where human and nonhuman actors contribute to space design consisting of artifacts and systems, how to observe and position their visibility in these spaces, and the various ways of gathering and assembly depending on the nature of gathering spaces and the other human and nonhuman actors shaping the space. The project is oriented towards enabling multiple practices in creative forms, anchoring in auto-ethnographic design and focusing on unraveling questions around seeing vs. not seeing, being and not being in spaces, reflective learnings on ourselves and kinds of design projections we inform in our practices, judging the suitability of metaphors pulled from spaces and positioning within a body of work.
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