Ravishankar Design

This curriculum content outlines key pointers for a progressive Masters in Design program, fostering deep expertise in design with compatibility, alignment into the leadership in oragnisational practice. It builds from foundational design appreciation to strategic design leadership, integrating systems to design thinking, innovation, and ethics.  Core Curriculum Key Pointers Design Appreciation & Adoption Aesthetic sensibility towards design principles, empathetic user connect within cultural diverse contexts. Design Thought & Adaptation Evolving design methodologies to respond to dynamic challenges. Research for Design Innovative inquiry methods tailored to design innovation and problem-solving. Contextual Mindfulness Awareness of cultural, economic, environmental, and societal influences on design. Conceptual Liberty Encouraging bold, unconstrained ideation and boundary-pushing creativity. Visualisation ...

  Design is about being passionate. With a dispassionate approach in execution for a compassionate cause, visioning and negotiating with the provider, for a quality comfort of the recipient user.

  Every nation or ethnic demography has its own pre-occupations that direct thought and action which 'determines' design. It is a contextual adaptation directed by a need with a democratic, useful, emotional, nonviolent and cultural sensibility. -     -  V S Ravishankar 2009

  I just figured, Stakeholders as commonly used term vs holders of stake when used, can sound very different ! For a designer, when you are designing in or a system, you are looking at and conscious of the interfaces of the system enabling by design for every participant in adding value to the performance of the system, therefore Valueholders, the rewards are though stakes by default or incidental, that’s not the preoccupation of a designer, like Rao says, designers are Value creators. Ravi | from Notepad | Nov 2024

Your task and responsibility is creating and training young design minds who are, sensitive, passionate, subjective & objective, free thinking, lateral in thought, yet middle path in approach of meaningfulness, contextual awareness in time space & surroundings, concern towards needs and action, make easy the things, comfortable in complexity and ambiguity, see the whole and parts, examine & capture, highly skilled, draw & sketch, make & demonstrate, conceive ideas, conceptualisers & visualisers in any media of expression, who take creative leaps & challenge, romance with beauty & form,…. By Design. This is your challenge and work towards realising such Products of Design Professionals for more informed and sustainable futures and not chase the default futures!     Ravishankar VS | Notepad | 14 Nov 2024  

Work of of Shubi, Sourabh & Vasudev, MDes Univeral Design 2016 Batch, National Institute of Design Bangalore, of the course titled UD Thinking taken by VS Ravishankar.  

Why cant product forms be a little off, this way! Why must they be perfect archetypically so! I like this Offness. Maker of this Akshay, Designer at NIDJ said it was lack of skill to manage a square in the proto, I said to him, no, its that tweak to the square that make it interesting...:) I have been thinking lately on this preoccupation of designers for perfection in achieving a set familiar geometry and proportions in products and forms. Being a 'little' Experimental, Exaggerating, Expressive, with a freewillness in Sculpting a form will make the Studio more exciting I feel and make the product loved for its not so perfectness. Tweak, its going to Fun:)