Creative Theories : Thinking and Making

Everything in the world has a nonlinear influence on everything else, culminating in the building of layers of an unsolvable complicated system. Every material has the ability to tell a tale, and when they join together, a different story is told just because of their proximity. The world is made of surreal assemblages that result as a result of interactions and intractions of human and innate materials. Humans frequently overlook the ability of materials to cause events to occur in certain ways. Whatever exists in the world is the result of interactions between human and nonhuman things, the power of which is frequently overlooked. Materials are involved and have a role in shaping us and the planet. The material environment can elicit new possibilities, and if we wish to investigate material capability, we must accept the object's existence without imposing the subjectivity of human experience. To effect significant change in the global working style, we must look beyond the ratio...

“ Best from the waste” or “Trash to Treasure” are few of the activities which everyone has definitely done when we were in school . When I heard about the activity that we had to do in EPC workshop , I got nostalgic and all I could thing was about the fun I had when I did these kind of activities. I was curious to do it as it would definitely lead to understanding of the concepts which I never thought while I did it initially . We had to collect different type of discarded materials from our household ,road side or a charity shop. It was interesting to find the materials as we are generally ignorant towards most of them but now we had to observe and select them which we think has a potential to be reused . I selected a piece of colored sheet which I painted during the coloring workshop , few safety pins, and a shell from my household for the workshop. At the workshop , we started the exercise by discussing about different methods of joining and attaching the materials . It was exciti...

What could be more amazing than a day where you get to work with different hues of the colors ? When I heard about the studio activity specially revolving around the colors I was not only enthusiastic but also curious about the studio that was going to be held . Preparation : For the studio we had to flat paint two A1 size sheets , one with a color similar to a object we have and another with any color of our choice. We had to make the particular color by mixing different shades which in itself was a difficult task. I chose my favorite wallet for the task which is in shade of yellow . It was a tedious yet fun task to mix   yellow , white and red to get the color similar to the wallet . The other color I selected was coral red. I decided to color both the sheets with different types of brushes to understand the difference of texture of the painted surface . The sheet painted in yellow color had more visible brush strokes than the one I painted with sponge brush. I spent almost ...

  Climate change is one of the biggest threat to the global future. It is our reality and its effects are already being felt by the world. The rising levels of sea , heat waves , changes in rainfall pattern and melting of glaciers are few of the visible effects on the world. Climate change has been a constant topic of discussions and debates for over a decade now. I recently had a very insightful discussion with few of my friends when we came across the rock revetment on Southsea beach. The climate change is causing rise in temperature resulting in melting of sea ice and rise in the sea level. The rising sea levels could lead to submerging of the Portsmouth city along with few other coastal cities in UK . Thus various methods are being taken by the government to prevent or minimize effects like coastal erosion. Methods like rock revetments are being used to fix the land- sea boundary or to reduce the impact of coastal erosion. The Southsea Coastal Scheme is the UK's largest local...