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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

MHRD Design Workshop Nov 6 2013 IIT Kharagpur

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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L2

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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?


Part One: Various cases From Icons to Built Forms to Technology

Is there a point of Convergences? &

Is Divergences an absolute characteristics?


Cases 1: Diverse iconographic footprints 2D Topological Constructs:


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:


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:


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


Cases: the design of an ancient City Pattern of crescent


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)


Girnar-Junagarh,

Palitana

Sahyadri caves,

300 B.C

Gandhara

600 B.C.

Indus Valley

civilization,

3000 B.C.

Persian Empire, 700

B.C.

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The Design of Ghats: A natural transformation


1900

2010

Reciprocal design constructs: Modulation of built forms

sacred isolated to sacred agglomerated

individual meditation to socio-cultural festivity


Part Three: A systems Approach Parts and Whole and their inter-dynamism



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


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)


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

Summary Seeking a design language? How and Why?


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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Y


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


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


ANSWERS

On behalf of:

Working Group of IIT Kharagpur

THANK YOU

‘Culture Studies’ IIT BHU, Varanasi MHRD Design Workshop Nov 6 2013 IIT Kharagpur

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