Ravishankar Design

Empowering People with their expertise and make aware their limitations to overcome Empathising with People Emotions, Aspirations, Insecurities, experiences Negotiating through People inter-work, inter-social/cultural/political relationships Coursing the young as design minds Navigating for the set purpose ahead  Scripting inter-engagements, interfaces for an outcome of said purpose and value through a collective intellect and not on singular opinionated views Setting up an Institution is the  Design of a Story   of a present and future continuous living entity. A  book which will have multiple beginnings and ends, today and the day next. A story which  is transient like the wind, course it takes is dependent on the Designer and the engagers/ actors in the story, gratified by a sense of cherish able experience to look back and say, hey! I was part of that Story, fought my internal and external battles and participated through my work and acumen for the collectiv...

  A Seagull in one of its vagabond flights lands on the wall of a well. He wonders what is this and there is water deep inside within parched stone wall, never seen something like this before!! Sees a Frog swimming in it and asks’ “Hey what is this place?” Frogy replies "it’s a Well, well! These bucket people call it so!" Seagull “ Ooo! …do you like its here?” Frogy, sitting its side walk the of the wall, “ Well!! I don’t know… there are predators here sometimes and a bucket which falls in unexpectedly to draw my water, dangerous for my kids and family and my friends!!” Seagull “Friends! In here? Who are they….?” Frogy “ My friends, Wormy, Snaky, Goldy Fish (my love interest, btw!, don’t tell my wife 😉 ) and many others…..” Frogy “Btw where are you from!!” Seagull “ Oo me!” Frogy “Yep”. Seagull “ I come from the blue sky and blue seas and wild breeze and winds and sunshine” Frogy, Wow!! And tell me what you do there!! Seagull, “I fly in blue sky, do acr...

So many things happening at the same time….startup India, NEP, hackethons, online programmes, WFHs, Home deliveries, E-com Apps, Bit currency, Instagram reels, Research funds, incubators by the corner, AI, MI, DL and all, ….govt schemes, twitter habituals, SDGs, Metaverse, Yoga, Drone tech, ….you may add more. Meanwhile, Krishna, 28, 8th std pass, a very bright, intelligent and diligent man, who is my help at home, during the day is a freelance dailywage. Rainy day is a bad day for him, misses his 400 rupees, sunny day is good if he is lucky to find work!! There are many many Krishnas and Kamalas in the urban diaspora, support rungs of the rotor, silent unknowns in the flux and fluff. Can we please PAUSE and set priorities in order and say, Ok what are those things best for us all and that we are good at doing and do that for us all. Not be wannabe in Everything and work on settling Kamalas and Krishnas for a comfortable living !! Ravishankar - Nov 2022

  What you decide in the beginning to be and what you do at the end is the same,  is not a design mind. What you imagine in the beginning and what you let it manifest to be in the end, is a design mind. Ravishankar Dec 2020

My Hypothesis on new age design professions … Artist Designers – Scenography designers, Character & Avatar artists & designers, Graphics, Furniture, Artifacts Product Designers – Interactions & experience designers, Gesture & Movement designers, artifacts with personalised character and behaviour designers, CMFs and details designers, Form & Expression givers, Design strategists, Universal Designers Clothing designers – Textiles, Fibres, Material Designers, Ensemblers, Indigenous Crafts, Lifestylers, Accessorisers, Stylists Communication Designers - Conversation & Language designers, Inclusive Designers, Message & Content designers, Navigation designers, Information designers, Creative controllers, Brand designers, Media Strategists Tech Designers – Experimenters, Makers, Prototypers, Detail & expression givers, AI Designers, IOT, Extended Reality creators Concept Designers – Setters of new de...

Design as a profession is  Persuasive , not authoritarian It’s all pervasive all during the day while you walk up or switch to work, and if you imagine or claim to be a Designer, Appreciate the well done or resolve, participatorily if it needs correction. (Participative Design is an act/skill of being detached yet an empathetic approach if you have the mind for it and navigate it to its end elegance of what triggered you to engage in). Correction is about whether holistically the design is working in terms of functionality, meaningful usefulness at large, is elegantly done and is inclusive. Ravishankar, Jan 2023

Existential vs Sustainable/lity is the quintessential of the region NE…., so it needs to be taken ahead in the context of quote-unquote development in a way such that…Position it the way satisfying aspirations of the ethnic urban bred and inclusive of the local demography of ( sustenance and existential) through meta-laws and whatever to empower and Sustain its ‘existential commerce’ . NE and so do many parts of this land on the globe people live on. On and on.  Industry of the non environment polluting kind, that which is about: Self sustenance of products and services which are intrinsic to the region culturally, a Destination of Ayur for example, of Liberal Art, IT Resource industry, Tourism reimagined as a get away! with pace of life with nature…few directions… Excerpt from my writing in progress... - Ravishankar | Notepad | August 2022.