Author: Esha

INTEGRATIVE STUDIO(sem-2)

5thFebruary2019

WEEK5

So today we had our review week and so we had show our final sketches to ma’am and sir but instead it was a faculty + peer to peer review. We presented whatever work we did in front of everyone and explain our work.

It was really interesting because we could see others work on the same city that we had done but seeing how different their perception is than mine or others. Also the feedback that I got helped me understand what I did good and also where I could have improved or what I can do better ahead.

These were the sketches that I showed:

 

 

INTEGRATIVE STUDIO(sem-2)

29thJanuary2019

WEEK4

So today we got the pictures again that we got in the last class. So these are pictures that I took:

After that ma’am and one more sir saw everyone’s sketches that we had made after reading a few chapters from the book ‘invisible cities’. After everyone’s discussion was done ma’am told us to bring total 6 sketches of 3 cities and the merging the sketches that we already did into 1 or 2 was a task.

These were the sketches that I had made in first two weeks:

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INTEGRATIVE STUDIO(sem-2)

22ndJanuary2019

WEEK3

So today we were supposed to bring the Photos that we clicked of the our cities over a week. All of us had different pictures and narratives. Also ma’am had asked us to bring the sketches of the book ‘invisible cities’.

Ma’am one by one called us and saw the pictures and also guided some of us to redo or to change some of the pictures or the orientation of the picture. Once we were done with the pictures we started working on the sketches that we had started. And then the final photos and sketches was asked to bring in the next class with sticking the pictures in a chart paper and giving it a title.

 

INTEGRATIVE STUDIO(sem-2)

15thJanuary2019

WEEK2

So todays class started and ended with a movie. We saw this movie called “AMELIE”, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This movie is about the girl named Amelie who lives in Paris and how she was misdiagnosed with a heart condition and so never went to school and spent her childhood at her home, which created her own imagination and fantasy land. And how she helps the people around her and finally finds her love.

I felt that it was an unusual but an interesting movie. And so we ended the lecture with the movie. After this movie was done ma’am asked us to bring 6 photographs of our city which forms a narrative.

And as always the seminar class is taken forward in the studio class and we have been reading the book “Invisible Cities”, so our assignment was to bring 15 sketches or thumbnails of 5 cities and 3 of each city in an abstract form. The chapters from the book were really difficult to understand but I thought it might be equally interesting to make them in form of sketches.

INTEGRATIVE STUDIO(sem-2)

8thJanuary2019

WEEK1

So it was our very first day of studio after first semester. And ma’am asked us to form a group of 4 people. We all quickly formed groups and then ma’am gave a chit to each group and there were words in each chit. The word we got was “Obnoxious”, which means something that is extremely unpleasant. And we all wondered what this was all about. Then ma’am explained us that we had to prepare a skit based on the words we had. It was interesting at the beginning but forming a story and then performing it was equally confusing and a bit difficult.

So my group had taken the topic of ‘Rape’, about how unpleasant and heinous crime it is that is left in that victims mind forever. And portrayed it with a small part showing a girl having nightmare about her being raped while she had heard her friend going through the same problem.

So in the first half of the lecture we all formed our stories and practiced our skits once and then in the second half we performed it one by one. Ma’am also asked the other groups to grade the group that did the skit.

It was fun to watch everyone act. Some were really good at it while some barely did it. Overall we had an amazing start to this class.

OBJECTS AS HISTORY(sem2)

21stJanuary2019

WEEK3

So today we discussed about the “Sumer Civilization” and no one could find out where they had come from or how they emerged out of nowhere. “Wheel was invented in Sumer. There were various reasons for the invention of wheel i.e, agriculture, transport, convenience.

Then we moved on to “Indus Valley Civilization”, that just disappeared, and there were various theories of what could have happened, like:

  • Threat of invasion
  • Sacred
  • Plague
  • Natural disaster

But there was no theory of war because there were no bodies found in that region.

Then ma’am told us about the first epic that was recorded, “The Epic Of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was a ‘Demigod’. He was during the Mesopotamian region. He was the ruler of “URUK” which was the first state of Mesopotamia.

The people of sumer believed in a lot of gods and goddess like, AN, Enki, Inana, Sin, Utu, etc. There was spirituality , Belief in god, and also leadership in this civilization.

Nature was the top most and then came the Gods, and then Kings and at the end Priests.

OBJECTS AS HISTORY(sem2)

14thJanuary2019

WEEK2

So today we discussed about the term called “Fertile Crescent”. Fertile crescent refers to a semi-circular area of the eastern-Mediterranean region including Nile, Tigris and Euphrates river. It was the place where the first civilization took place.

Then we looked at what all consists in a civilization:

  • A planned settlement
  • Language
  • Water
  • Sophistication
  • Leadership
  • Domestication of animals
  • Division of labour
  • Hierarchy
  • Religion
  • Rituals
  • Higher power
  • Administration
  • Community identity
  • Social practices
  • Handicraft
  • Beliefs
  • Architecture
  •  Material culture
  • Food practices
  • Trade
  • Art/culture

OBJECTS AS HISTORY(sem2)

7thJanuary2019

WEEK1

So I was wondering what objects as history would actually mean, I thought something to do with the objects that we use in our everyday life and how they have evolved during these years, or where it all began.

So it started with the question, what is history? to which all of us had different answers.

  • Record of the past
  • The back story
  • Evolution
  • Revolution(past, present, future)
  • To know the beginning
  • A learning curve( What to do/what not to do,  The only source of learning,  History repeats itself

We also discussed about why the dates are important to which one answered because if we don’t remember the dates then we will lose the concept of time. We discussed about the place where the first homo-sapiens were found, the place was Jericho. There was 20 layers of settlement found in Jericho.

We also learnt about three phases of history:

  • Paleolithic Age- Old stone
  • Neolithic Age- New stone (agriculture started to happen in this age)
  • Chalcolithic Age- Copper

We also discussed  about Harappa. Their burial practices that they buried the bodies under their living room and before the   burial their feet were amputated. By the end of this discussion our lecture came to an end.

 

 

 

TIME

28thJanuary2019

WEEK4

So today we were supposed to bring photos that narrated the story and the thumbnails that we formed in the last class.

I had created the narrative of train as a journey through the time of our lives. Starting from the time we get into the train till the time we get down at our destination. How sometimes we get immense happiness when the train is empty and how at the same time we get irritated and angry when the train is crowded. And how different stations show different opportunities. And the different kind of people come in the train the kind of nature and attitude they have. And how the final destination where we want to get down shows the goal of our life. All this I have tried to portray through these images. Also I have used colours to show various emotions. These are the images that I took:

 

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I also took some pictures and pre-edited them and the took their pictures as the final image. I painted some butter papers and the stuck them to my pictures to show the emotions that I wanted to show through the pictures. These are some of the images that I have pre-edited:

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So all of us showed the photos that we had taken and the narrative behind it.