The excitement of being in a place and being occupied by so many things are still exciting but I but I rue the fact
that I don’t get to paint these days.
Few days back I was actually contemplating the
various steps I took before joining Srishti… from the years doing
painting to the time I spent in travelling, and later working with the
start-up… how much has life changed so far? Sometime back I was thinking
on how life would be if the concept of failure is erased…how will we
define success then? Will it even exist?
Anyways moving away from philosophy, I will share
all the stuff that is going on in class. I will begin with few of the
workshops I have attended. The first is the creativity workshop by Pandrang,
we call him Pandy. Two days of fun, brainstorming and conversations. He
is an advertisement guy, so our conversation veered from films, music,
books to food…it was almost like someone waking up us from sleep. Among
few of the stuff he shared, I liked the concept of a T-shaped learning.
Yes! You heard it right. It means that like the horizontal bar of a T,
you should learn about all kinds of stuff but like the vertical long
line in T, you should know one thing well, very well. The discussion
started with creativity, exercises to channelize it. I can’t talk for
others, but I was rather surprised how inactive I have become. It helped
me know where I am going in the Mine the City project.
The other project which is nearing completion is
the Qualitative Research class. We are now left with getting everything
together and make a final presentation at the school. After spending
just one and a half months with this course, I feel that time has been a constrain. A course with more time and proper follow-up
through regular feedback is more useful than just getting stuffed
with new ideas. One needs an execution ground after a point.
Anyways the next and also the most exciting
workshop is the one I had with Anna Fox. She is very vibrant and her
works has a strong colour sense. What makes her particularly stand out
is her interest in all the mundane stuff around her, her witty take and
the power of story-telling through her photographs. I will be brief on
this workshop right now. I will dedicate a separate post on her.
Other than meeting new people, attending workshops,
right now I am anticipating the September workshop with John Matthew.
There is always something new to learn and new to do. And though the
lessons are short, it is the effective delivery of the modules that
makes me happy. It is only after the day gets over, that you realize
that what you take might be just the beginning to a new interest and
they can be implemented on a much larger, with a bit more time.
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