Review of literature : Peer reviewed Research paper reading,
Expert interviews : Discussing with Experts, discussing with stack holders
Understanding Crafts, Craft significance and Craft ecology:
What is Craft? what does it mean by craft significance ?
What is craft creative ecology ? and its variables?
What are the variables of Craft and its significance depended on to maintain the creative ecology in any geographical context ?
What does Craft mean to other geographical context of the world and India?
What are the new adaption/changes /revitalization strategy in the last 10 years ?
Who are involved in the processes and what it means them :
Who is a craftsman and craftmanship ? definition by all influential bodies in the world ;
Who are the stakeholder in the craft sector and their relationship and intention towards craft practices in India?
A discussion on what is living with craft and individual interpretation and breaking the norms and questing the existing archetype and bringing newness to its articulation with the change in the context of people and social innovation and craft future.
What is development means in recent times :
What are the issues and opportunities in the Craft sector?
What development means to the locals and the government in a particular geography location ?
Why the existing strategy of development is not adequate to maintain the creative ecology of the region
Policy regimes and Practices
during the In the Month:- May2021
Course timing:1st 3weeks
Collect and reading of research paper on craft sector/ social innovation / system perspective
Systematic organization of the content with due credit to the researcher.
week 01(week 02 and 03 as gone slow reading of papers)
10th to 30th May 2021 : Reading of the papers and finding out the concepts, visual models etc (Team of 15 students each individual may read 5 to 7 papers with a very detailed analysis.
week 02/04
31st may - 4th June 2021:
Team 01 : initial level of Cognitive mapping of the world context with the content in hand and continue with parallel reading if there is a gap found in the study .
Team 02 : Reading/listening to Indian context (Kutch, Gujarat or any other part) from different resources and map the content
Team 03 : discussing with Experts (all stake holders ) in a specific locality ,transcripts and analysis- stake holder mapping (craftsman, experts, entrepreneurs , etc etc ).the question of discussion sink in line with the main question posed by the subject.
week 03/05
final Mapping the craft sector
Reading to fill the gape in literature research review
week 04/06
review discussion, correction and representation of giga map
Reading Research papers cited and collected from the design books and google scholar understand the secondary data, and post Covid19 situation .(plzz note down any other interesting read beyond the list)
Field experience/Knowledge gained from craft research field visit from last winter from the students across the institute, listening to webinars by private bodies, government of India ,educational institutes etc
Discussion with artisan across the group ,Faculty as project heads, entrepreneurs
In this particular Phase, 15 students are expected to work together. Everyone has to divide the tasks feed into an information system with almost enthusiasm and responsibility. Further make sense out of it through cognitive mapping.
Team 01 : research paper reader, keywords convertor,
Team 02 : Stack holder identifier, and broad question planning
Team 03 :Interview & question preparation team, Keyword converter team, cluster mapping team, Gap identifier team
Team 04: Giga map mapping team
Cognitive mapping, Contextual inquiry, Crowdsourcing, Cultural probes
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
Interviewing with master artisan across the country.
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
Trying to understand what is so special of these cause and effect loop to the craft sector in India at this moment.
What are the non-obvious connection or wrong connection they identify students while clustering the forces and discover the opportunity?
Mapping the NGO, Government Organisation, Designer, individuals who all are working for an already identified gap to support the systems working.
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.
Course timing: 02/04
Research paper reading & discussing with Experts (all stake holders )
Internal Review 01 and discussion on the Giga mapping
Further working on the Giga mapping based on the feedback in Internal Review 01
Talking to experts, Field experience in a different organization, mapping from craft research field visit from last winter from the students across the institute,
Reading Research papers understand the secondary data
In this particular Phase, 15 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.
Phase 01 - Expert interviewer, cluster mapping team, Giga mapping Team.
Phase 02 -representation team, Video documentation team, system concept beading team.
Cognitive mapping, Data Visualisation,
Trying to understand the cause and effect loop to the craft sector in India by discovering the finer connection between the subject.
Discovering simpler way to represent the complex system model eventually understood by any common man.
Conceptualise a 30sec introductory movie which may evoke the potential scholar,artisan,organisation to support the research activity.
Generating a research tool (trigger cards) which will help researcher to understand the complexity of craft sector by asking the right questions in three different level.
Understanding Craft system of india through literature Review
Understanding Craft system of india through Primary Research
Month:- February / Course timing: 3rd week
24 : Articulate Craft system with clarity, Conceptualise a metaphor , Finding a indian craft language/Colour/Picture/illustration for representation of the models .
25/26: representation of Craft system model
27: Opportunity Mapping for Government ,Non government organisation and Designer
28 : Black and white print for a presentation in a public platform for debate and invite critics ,question for further development
24/25 : Collect Videos relate to the concept note of craft future,Create a story board how the team intend to convey the project ,find a piece of music,voice over etc . if needed students may need to go to the craft cluster to shoot the videos.
25/26: Rough cut of the video Preparation , Peer review ,Feed back from videography dept.Content writing.
27: Rendering of the movie ,Presentation
28: presentation in a public platform
24/25: Collect the questions students may have used for the craft research and documentation . The question may be collected from your own classments and batchments of other departments . Segregation the question based on the intents .
26/27: Prepare a language of representation of cards ,lay outing and printing, Black and white print for a presentation in a public platform for debate and invite critics ,question for further development
28: Colour print for a presentation in a public platform
24/25: Craft Sensitisation Field Visits Recommendation in Ahmedabad - a visual presentation
26/27: Organisation for Placement in Craft / Craft Design sector for designer
28: List of Craft research Resource organisation,scholar,research Center
Reviewing the Talking of experts, Field experience in a different organisation, mapping from craft research field visit from last winter from the students across the institute,your own experience from the mapping the system mapping
Digital video from creative common
In this particular Phase, 16 students are expected to work in 4 groups . The group has to divide the tasks based on the intrest and Strength . How ever the content need to be generated by the collective effort .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.
Field audit ,
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
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.
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.
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 .
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 .
online, Field experience /research of the organisation, Personal and group discussion
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.
Field audit ,
Visually consolidate and communicate the key constitutes of a service model setting the stage for user centered research and design development
Visually consolidate and communicate the service delivery process from the customer's perspective. which include Customer Actions,Front-stage,Back-stage,Support Processes,Physical Evidence,Inventory,Line of Visibility
User journey mapping visualizing the experience people have when interacting with the a product and services.Each moment can be visually evaluated and improved.
Project Closing
Craft and Calamity
Parul Gupta
Rucha Sapre
Sunandita Sahoo
Craft and Perception
Craft and Traditional Knowledge
Craft and Emotional Health
Kritika Rathore
Craft and Education
website update of the respective project page
poster documentation (print media):-
research overview case study
project opportunity
solution overview (product prototype (digital )
service overview (stakeholder meeting, service blueprint, stakeholder mapping )
social impact mapping
video
service concept video
impact video
Chapter of your project Book with consultation with guide and making team
important information to share in your chapter your insights etc for your project which will directly go to the project book
Research paper (optional ) interested team may like to write the research paper in collaboration with Faculty .