Project Planning

Methodology :

Cognitive mapping, Contextual inquiry, Crowdsourcing, Cultural probes

The task in hand to Know :

1. interview with Craft stack holders (Craftsmen, Middlemen, Designers, Traders, Craft Entrepreneurs, Craft Retailer, Social innovators, Trust and funders, Govt policymakers,Influencers (teachers, spiritual leaders, Academic Researcher, NGO's, Craft Organisations, Corporates, Export houses, Craft Collectors, Historical Researchers, Brands, Craft Museum, Craft Cluster heads) and their understanding

2. Interviewing with master artisan across the country.

3. Putting together the forces/keywords in a Giga map to understand how the Craft sector in India is working/existing and discovering the opportunity within the system.

while working for Giga mapping students need to understand these things

• • 1. Trying to understand what is so special of these cause and effect loop to the craft sector in India at this moment.

    2. What are the non-obvious connection or wrong connection they identify students while clustering the forces and discover the opportunity?

    3. Mapping the NGO, Government Organisation, Designer, individuals who all are working for an already identified gap to support the systems working.

    4. The categorization of the opportunity and identify where designers,social designpreneurs can play a role.

Inquiry of immersive, methods of observing and interviewing that reveals underlying and invisible work structure/functioning of the craft sector.

Timeline:

Month:- February /Course timing:2nd week

17/18: Research paper reading & discussing with Experts (all stake holders )

19: Internal Review 01 and discussion on the Giga mapping

20 /21/22: Further working on the Giga mapping based on the feedback in Internal Review 01

Source of Research

1. Talking to experts, Field experience in a different organization, mapping from craft research field visit from last winter from the students across the institute,

2. Reading Research papers understand the secondary data

Suggestion from Mentors

In this particular Phase, 16 students are expected to work together. Everyone has to divide the tasks feed into an information system so make sense out of it through cognitive mapping. The discussion and debate are most important within the whole students to move away from the conventional methods of clustering. There could be a very innovative way / interesting way of clustering of the information.

Roleplay of Students team :

1. Phase 01 - Expert interviewer, cluster mapping team, Giga mapping Team.

2. Phase 02 -representation team, Video documentation team, system concept beading team.

Methodology :

Field audit ,

The task in hand to Know :

Students are expected to understand the chosen subject such as ( Craft & education ,Craft & seasons, Craft & Perception , Craft & Languish ,Craft & Health ) and in a given context of craft,material culture. Focus on the people within their environment and the world, See how different organisation working for them discover the underline problem they are resolving. Be aware the problems are the outcome of design decisions, problems are artefacts, Everything is a part of a system. Develop an understanding of Design intent for a system, but be aware that we might never comprehend the entire system, take responsibility for that but at least we may see our intent is holistic .

The task in hand is

• • • 1. Visit near by craft cluster and understand the craft practices and the ecosystem in the chosen lenses (such as education,perception, seasons etc) follow all the Value chain and look very closely how their interdependent on each other.

      2. Connect some of the organisation /entrepreneur /scholars/ business man/producers /consumers in that locality find their understanding which dealt with Craft future through insight models such as social entrepreneurship model,social service models, business models, health models ,Perception models.

      3. Discover and Audit the personas from your subjects and experience capture the day today context in which people engage with the product, services, system etc .

Timeline:

Month:- March / Course timing: 4th week

02/03: Selection of the subject study and find the organisation who is working for the craft community. Find your team members who will be equally interested for the subject . Understand the potential of the subject by a quick research on it.

04/05 : Find an organisation who all are working in that particular areas ,same time Find a place of craft context where they are working .Read literature and have a field visit to understand the situation where the organisation running their services and support to the craft cluster.

06/07/08/09 : A field visits to a actual context may help the students to build their understanding about the craft ,people and context .The selection of the cluster based on the true representative of the lens chosen by the students.Students may choose to repeated visit to do a contextual inquiry. The research need to be captured by the students through visuals, audio,participatory research. The insights need to be generated by personal interview, group discussion with the all the stack holder in that value chain .

Source of Research

1. online, Field experience /research of the organisation, Personal and group discussion

Suggestion from Mentors

In this particular Phase, students team are expected to work in groups in 3 people or 2 people in group. The group has to select the field visit destination, stack holder based on the lens subject and Strength . How ever the content need to be generated by the collective effort of the team .The presentation of the content may be the teams responsibility . The discussion and debate are most encouraged ( bring a protagonist approach) consciously choose to move away from the conventional methods of approaching the chosen subject. Find a way out for a very innovative / exciting way to represent the information.

Role play of Students team :

1. Phase 01 - with the social enterpanure mindset, Analysis team, Visualization team