We had “Design Concepts and Concerns” by Prof. MP Ranjan. He is one of best professors I have ever seen. We were given lectures on What is Design and its evolution etc.. Then we were given with an assignment where we have to brain storm on the given topic and categorize all the points with the relationships between them. Then we have to represent it with a help of a metaphor. The whole idea is to expose us to the process of thinking and brain storming I guess.
If you see from a biological point of view, our brain is made up of tiny brain cells called neurons. These neurons have tiny branches that reach out and connect to other neurons to form a neuron net. Each place where they connect is integrated into a thought or a memory. The brain builds up all its concepts by the law of associative memory. Ideas, thoughts and feelings are all constructed and interconnected within this neuron net. And all have a possible relationship with one another. The concept of water, for instance, is stored in this vast neuron net. But we build up the concept of water from many other different ideas. Some people have water connected to disappointment. When they think about water, they experience the memory of pain, sorrow, anger and even rage. Rage may be linked to hurt which may be linked to a specific person which then is connected back to water.
Thus in the process of brain storming, we were forced to tap all the memory, logic, thought patterns, feelings related to water. The more time we spent on it, more old memories and concepts learnt kept popping out. It’s an amazing thing to do before starting any project.
All the disciplines in PG Campus had this course, thus each group had students from all disciplines which gave us an opportunity to interact with a new set of people.
Personally this exercise (assignment) thought me how to look at the problem from the system point of view instead of viewing it from the elemental point of view. The transition which I had internally was amazing. We worked continuously day and night and the result was very good at the end. On the very next day we had our presentation. Almost everyone was dam sleepy that we could hardly listen to what was presented by others :-)
Only the first 3 days of the course is over. Still we have a long way to go. Will update those in my next post.
Thus in the process of brain storming, we were forced to tap all the memory, logic, thought patterns, feelings related to water. The more time we spent on it, more old memories and concepts learnt kept popping out. It’s an amazing thing to do before starting any project.All the disciplines in PG Campus had this course, thus each group had students from all disciplines which gave us an opportunity to interact with a new set of people.
Personally this exercise (assignment) thought me how to look at the problem from the system point of view instead of viewing it from the elemental point of view. The transition which I had internally was amazing. We worked continuously day and night and the result was very good at the end. On the very next day we had our presentation. Almost everyone was dam sleepy that we could hardly listen to what was presented by others :-)
Only the first 3 days of the course is over. Still we have a long way to go. Will update those in my next post.
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