Design Briefs

that ensure holistic outcomes.

This workshop encourages faculty to adapt approaches that foster holistic and integrated design solutions for students. This integration can be sought by framing the brief more tactfully. The focus would be on this teaching-learning journey which begins with a pre-design process of writing the brief and helps you plan your semester. This workshop would enhance understanding of framing the brief to ensure holistic outcomes in Interior Design studios!

Details

Aims and Objectives

  • Day 1: Designing the Design Brief

    9 Oct, 10 Oct, 10.00 AM - 4.30 PM

  • Day 2: Design Assignments and Frame the Outcome!

    10 Oct, 10.00 AM - 4.30 PM

  • Day 3: Plan and Integrate Subjects

    11 Oct, 10.00 AM - 4.30 PM

Methodology

The workshop believes that the means followed to reach the end are just as critical as the final design output. Every step of framing the design problem, designing assignments to ensure better engagement and the process of guidance will be shared and discussed. We will follow the methodology of flipped classrooms. The mentor(s) will share lessons and recordings before the live session and leave you with some food for thought and a question. The LIVE session will begin with discussions on the brief of each college followed by interaction and exercises.

The Ideological Framework

Interior Design fills in the empty three-dimensional canvas of the built form. It is the design of spatial experiences. The inside, the outside and its transition is the complete picture; the individual, group and communities which impact and are in turn impacted by spaces are an integral part of this whole. Yet, sometimes Interior Design only focuses on the inside. The built and habitable space inside a structure is not in isolation with its context. People, Spaces and their Environment will be brought to the forefront in this Faculty Development Programme by IIID.

Pre-Requisites

Go through the videos and notes uploaded in the browser before the session begins. Identify a brief/design problem which you would like your students to work on. Share student work from the past which had done most justice to the brief/ design problem set by you. Fill in the form below, contemplate and join the session on 9th Oct.
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Course Schedule



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About the Mentors

Day 1: Pedagogical Discourses with Amrita Madan and Siddharth Singh

Amrita Madan

Mentor

Prof Amrita Madan is a practising architect (since 1997), an educator and researcher having a Master’s in Landscape Planning (2001) and an M.Phil. (Urban Theories) (2002), from France. She is currently involved in developing and testing SSAA FacTOR, a Programme for Architecture Faculty Training, Orientation and Research as well as the M.Arch. (Interior Architecture) Programme at the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, (SSAA). She has a keen interest in the cross-over between fields of creative thinking in the making of space, experientiality and narrative-based design methodologies. She teaches Architectural Design since 2002, conducting undergraduate and postgraduate studios at SSSA India. In her practice of over 15 years, at Atelier Anonyme Design (AAD) a multidisciplinary design firm, Amrita has worked as an exhibition designer for varied experiential design projects.

Siddharth Singh

Mentor

Siddharth is the founding director of Studio11. In 2011 Siddharth created image:medium:actor a course on emotions & creativity which employs graphics, text, collage & theatre as mediums and participant’ memories and associations as raw material. While the pedagogy was predominantly in a workshop format, Siddharth’s time as an associate professor at IIAD, New Delhi, allowed him to evolve the workshop into an introductory course in Spatial Design. Besides spatial design, he is involved in graphics and publications through his visual communication design enterprise Compoundeye. Siddharth is a keen writer of both lyrical and prosaic text. He is very fond of singing and has also composed a song. He is a trigger-happy phone-photographer and loves making videos and montages to share experiences that move him.

Day 2: Gamification with Prasad Anaokar and Uday Athvankar

Prasad Anaokar

Prasad is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Infologys & eArchstudio before co-founding twobythree. He has twenty five years of cross-domain knowledge in architecture, design & IT industry having worked with organizations like Compuware, General Motors & Ford Motors - North America, Guardian Insurance, Patni Computers, Somaiya Medical College-Mumbai, IIT-Jodhpur, Group-T, Belgium. As co-founder of twobythree, Prasad has led several projects involving large, mid-size and start-up organizations on the innovation of products, services & business models. Prasad holds a Master of Architecture from Morgan State University, Baltimore and an MS in Information Systems from Lawrence State University, Michigan. He dropped out of PhD program at IDC, IIT Bombay to jumpstart twobythree.

Ameya Athwankar

Ameya is a design researcher and the co-founder of twobythree - a Mumbai based design research and strategy firm. In this role, Ameya has led several successful engagements with client organizations in domains such as education technology, digital healthcare, consumer products and energy policy. Previously he has worked as a design consultant at the Innovation Studio at IDC, IIT Bombay, and gaining significant experience in human centered design. His role, at the studio, gave him the opportunity to work on challenging problems at the bottom of the pyramid and helped shape his approach to human centered design. Ameya is also interested in design research and applied game design. He has published and presented papers at Indian and international design journals and conferences.

Day 3: Semester planning with Maliha Sultan Chaudhry and Gita Balakrishnan

Maliha Sultan Chaudhry

Head of Department, Pearl Academy

Maliha Chaudhry qualified as an architect in 2006, gaining experience in hospitality, housing, and commercial projects. In 2008, she completed her M.Arch, specialising in Computer Aided Architectural Design from the Mackintosh School of Architecture (Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow). Maliha has worked with Reg Aulds (ARM Architects, Glasgow), Manit Rastogi (Morphogenesis Pvt Ltd) and KT Ravindran. She has also worked as a freelance architect and researcher for York Civic Trust (York, UK) and the Delhi Art Urban Commission (New Delhi). Maliha has been inclined towards research in the field of the Architectural Design Process – specifically in the area of design analysis using Space Syntax theories. The use of software such as Depthmap and Rhino was integral to her project during her Masters and is at the core of her research. She has also actively participated in architectural conservation projects as well.

Gita Balakrishnan

Founder & Curator, Ethos | Acedge

An architect who sidestepped the profession to pursue her dreams of enabling and empowering young minds, Gita is the head and hands behind Ethos and ACEDGE. She passionately works with youngsters to enable them to find their full potential.