Ravishankar Design

Design and designing is a creative and analytic process which gets rolling either from a given or discovered intent or an unprecedented act or inspiration. In design 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 as a participant let it manifest to be in the end is the design mind. In the journey of design, the designer plays a dual role of the creative and the rational analytic, the degree of swing between the two depends on the personality of the designer though. Also may sometimes depend on the client’s expectations and in selecting a designer for the intended purpose. When the designer gets started, she/he through a studied process or a way-about imbibed through experience, sets a goal purposefully or vaguely, depends on whether one is an ant or a grasshopper. ( http://ravishankardesign.blogspot.com/2013/08/we-need-antsalong-with-grasshoppers.html ). However, the common kit of t...

I have these tiny I/2 inch size frogs jumping around my house, they leap 100 times distance than their size btw…, I have home lizards all over, but I feel terrible when they get jammed in the door unnoticed :(… I have large spiders, couples by the way :) in the loo or other places, maybe they notice me :)… crawlers millipedes, my lower of bifocal spots them and I step aside,… cockroaches of course, I don’t kill them just toss them over, when very angry they are my target though 🤨….. ok now I want you to: design toys for the little frogs, safety gear for the lizards so that they don’t get jammed in doors, meta garments for love coupling spiders, fixed pathway for the millipedes, and contraceptives for the cockroaches. And we all live happily 😊 Ravishankar | Notepad | July 2022

Flux on its own, is a random self, therefore it’s maiden name.  When matter in any form comes in, flux gets a purpose and marries, to set a motion of gay abandon for whatever love. The embodiment of matter in motion meets more such and therefore more flux and more embodies working to reach equilibrium, of an imagine. Calmness 'as in being cool' in this quantum chaos is the consciousness, maybe !  Observing and doing the responsible/sive tasks nonchalantly and come back home and drink brew merry to wake up to the sunshine  and until uncle calls and says fresh b rew is waiting guys 😉 Ravishankar, October 2022/23.

  Everyone of physics talks about protons, neutrons, positrons, waves n particle but they don’t discuss the plight of the Nucleus!!😀 While this is metaphorical, I love physics and shared this quite sometime ago, with a dear friend in Jorhat, Arjun Trivedi, a PhD in Physics, worked at CERN, and now started a school for the Tea garden children, Selenghat Valley School..,,, his reply ... That is actually a very good point, Ravi, and one that my research group was also involved in trying to bring to everyone's attention, which in other words is that everyone is talking~doing more with the parts (electron, proton etc) than the whole (nucleus)! And a lot has to do with how reductionism has somehow become more fashionable — finding parts of the whole for a while was very exciting and even very valuable in subatomic physics, but increasingly it seems that fewer are working on the whole! The theory of the whole continues to be profoundly challenging because relative to the parts that can b...

Visited Jawahar Navadaya Vidyalaya in Titabor, 15 km from Jorhat along with Krishna last week. His children twins, are very bright kids, in class 5 in a state government school. I thought they should move to Navodaya, a beautiful initiative of the government, a school for children of interior India and low income parents. Krishna’s daily income depends on the weather btw!! Met the Vice Principal and told her why we were there, she was very polite and pleasant, enquired regarding admission to 6th std coming year. She later said applications were closed for 6th std on 31st August, we were in September already. I asked if there was any way of applying. She said not possible since it’s all online from central office and it’s closed. Krishna looked disappointed. I felt bad too. There was no way.  There used to be ways earlier I thought though how right they were, a different matter but for right people ways were maybe! While driving back and talking to Kartik, I said Digitisation has no...

3rd National NEP Meet, Delhi: Holistic Education, Academia & Industry Connect - Few Pointers I gathered from Immersive Panel Session Chaired by Dr Anunaya Chaubey and from the talks by other panellists: Pedagogy vs Heutagogy  Continuous Up-Skilling New Job Roles & Profiles Domain knowledge Middle Path (Madhya Marg) approach to Generalist vs Specialist Industry Academia to Co-lab in areas of future value creation System understanding and thinking (connecting the dots, relationships, empathy and creative action) Education for Living or/and for Earning! Or overall well being! Social Science workers and their professional inclusiveness in industry Enabling MSMEs to attract talent  Is the industry agile enough in mindset and action to adapt and adopt this! Is the Academia getting tailored to this paradigm shift ! Who will be the first mover to design this product, the future worker! The MOE and Industry have set the stage to initiate way forward. While the profiles of Indus...

The concept of modern-day packaging has boomed with the advent of the large consumer purchasing power, multiple brands with diverse competing SKUs in retail shelves and FMCG manufacturing companies besides advertising collaterals. While purpose of packaging is primarily functional that of protection, storage and for shipment, its commercial need in the context of design to attract, shelf throw and pick up to convert the product to sale is its predominant attribute practised by commerce. The issue is Systemic in nature involving multiple stakeholders primarily business houses including the end consumer responsible to solve and resolve the design, generation and disposal of non-degradable packaging materials and its management. A wicked problem. The approach conceptually and strategically may be to: ·         Identify the bulk of products which generate waste along with institutional of both public and private consumption and apply the 3Es principle (ed...