Learner Centered Design Education

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasa_(aesthetics)

Notes for this episode. I will make a webpage for this episode and periodically update the webpage with information about designers I find.60 million: Jony Ive, 2011, 30 million + 30 million per year, Find me 5 others who earn this much today30 Million: Franz von Halzhausen (Tesla Lead Designer, 51 million home), Maximillian Missoni (BMW Lead Designer), Luc Donckerwolke (Hyundai), Find me 100 others at this slab10 million: Ivy Ross, (Google Design VP), Find me 1000 others at this slab1 Million: Tbc, Find me 5000 people at this slab500,000: Product Designer at Tesla, Find me 10,000 people at this slab200,000: Tbc, Find me ... dont. This is ubiquitous100,000: Tbc, Find me? Dont. Document instead for me places that have been de-industrialised. Go European city by European city? Something like that.

Elon Musk by Walter IsaacsonApple in China by Patrick McGeeThe Singularity is Nearer by Ray KurzweilInvention by James DysonThe Big Con by Marian Mazzuccato

There are two texts on Derrida, on Artaud.https://kdoutsiderart.com/tag/antonin-artaud/ - For Artaud the works are intended as weapons, not commodities, but they become commodified in any event. How then to restore, to protect, their existence as “gestures, a verb, a grammar, an arithmetic, a whole Kabbalah…that shits on the other,” to maintain their endurance as “a machine that has breath”? How to preserve the destructive essence (and we should be clear Artaud's intent was destructive, not merely critical) of Artaud's project against “the museographic management of its surplus value.” As Derrida puts it: “Will it be possible to do what I am trying to do, to say ‘Merde?' Will it be possible, either with or without blasphemy, to read and to cite ‘Shit,' ‘Shit to art,' to do it then as it must be done, in this great temple that is a great art museum and above all modern, thus in a museum that has the sense of history, the very great museum of one of the greatest metropolises in the new world?”‘The Theatre of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation': https://arts3047.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/the-theatre-of-cruelty-and-the-closure-of-representation/ - Whilst Derrida seems to be on the brink of declaring Artaud as a success story that can defy the unravelling of deconstructive theory, he ultimately finds an end to theatre of cruelty using dialectics. The very thing that would seem to make theatre succeed in a mission that texts fail is the thing that undoes theatre as an art form: its existence as transient, finite.

Web space for this episode: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/book-chapter-assemblages-of-development/John Maeda's Tech Report: https://designintech.report/Capgemini: https://www.capgemini.com/au-en/careers/career-paths/students-and-graduates/D&I: https://www.design-industry.com.au/Frog Design: https://www.frog.co/Jony Ive Salary: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jony_Ive"In 2011, it was reported that Ive was paid $30 million in base salary with a $25 million stock bonus for the year."Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) - Toyota: https://mag.toyota.co.uk/kaizen-toyota-production-system/LEANToyota production system adopted by cancer unit at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne: https://www.news.com.au/national/toyota-production-system-adopted-by-cancer-unit-at-st-vincents-hospital-in-melbourne/news-story/8226198e586a660b8a893550bdb35d39Comparisons of Lean in Healthcare: https://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/633_ANZAM2011-454.PDF

Also SeeJones, J. C. (2021). designing designing (1st ed.).Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350070707The Diceman speaks -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqSeFjaEczAWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_ManJohn Cage's 4'33'' explained: The music of silence:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bGU9NTJlIoJohn Cage 4'33":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4John Cage about silence:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64YMOMA: https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/393Textile artist Matthew Harris lets a roll of the dicedictate his artistic choices. We spoke to Matthew about his unique creative process, the interplay between paper and textile, and the roles that improvisation and chance play in his art practice. https://www.fibreartstaketwo.com/articles/matthew-harrisHans Arp: https://expressivemonkey.com/element-of-chance-2/He thought that by giving up control and letting randomelements shape his art, he could tap into the heart of true creativity.Chance in Art and the indeterminacy aesthetic:https://art-newzealand.com/21-chance/The historian Mommsen estimated that chance accounts for athird of all historical effects. Strindberg wrote a manifesto on its role in art. For the Surrealists it was a means of transcending the barriers of causality and conscious volition. Richter adopted it as a protest against the rigidity of straight line thinking. Duchamp categorised some of his works as 'canned chance'. Arp revered the law of chance as the highest and deepest of laws; as did the great physicist Heisenberg, who, in 1927, sanctified chance ina mathematical formulation.Vesna Jovanovich:https://vesnajovanovic.com/2024/06/27/meticulously-planned-chance-operations/

This is the first episode on the topic - Assemblages of Development.

Dubai is a special kind of place. Following on from that statement is another similar statement - every place is a special kind of place. To go as an ethnographer, as a researcher, as a theorist is a very particular way to look at places. Places in this vein of thinking hold secrets. They tell stories. What secrets does Dubai hold? What does Dubai broadcast, that we do not hear, because we have not tuned in? That is my way of saying that we rush to judge. In doing that, we miss the opportunity to develop a love for, an affection for a place, a people.Links coming soon.

The Provocation in this episode is: Some engineers view "design engineering" as redundant, believing that true engineering already includes design. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of design engineering is an oxymoron, industrial design engineer is an oxymoron - you will find a lot that is enjoyable. Check it out.Alec Issigonis - the person who visiualized and realized the Mini (Mr Bean Version) was an engineer. And a guru to James Dyson.This Episode is on D4X. As an opener into a series - of episodes that look at what happens when designers work inside manufacturing enterprises. The Author of this Podcast Series? https://soumitri.owlstown.net/The Website where transcriptions can be found? https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/NOTE: I dont upload transcripts of all episodes. I do upload transcripts if someone in the audience requests a transcript. These podcast episodes will become text one day. In a book or a paper. Or that is an aspiration I mull over.

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This is a letter to my fellow teachers. 6 of them. They have worked with me to teach in the first year - of an Industrial Design Program.

This is an episode that provides an entry point into the speculations about the future. It provides an entry into the world of investors, researchers and those that are constructing the future inside the labs. Here are some search terms for you to explore these areas:Precision fermentationTony SebaRay Kurzweil (Invention - A Life a book by James Dyson Apple in China the book by Patrick McGeeYou tube search terms and playlists: Tony Seba - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU7nrcTLINEQ_Lo0SPRRAGgaCg7kQ0LJy&si=RSGnKvIgWPPOc0pSPrecision FermentationMolecular GastronomyANT - Actor Network TheorySCOT - Social Construction of TechnologyThe Social Object Book - https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-social-object

This a podcast episode for a project collaborator. A fellow teacher. A colleague. We are collaborating to teach a studio. How do you teach an Industrial Design Studio in 2025? Okay more questions:How do you teach studios in the contemporary?Would you use an LTP framing? Actually an LTS - Lecture-Tutorial_Studio?How would you teach a studio that enables students to enter a pathway towards a future in medicine related work? MedTech yes. But actually medical discovery work.This is my academic site: https://soumitri.owlstown.net/This is the site for the Podcast: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

This is a short (18 minute) podcast about making a list of or a glossary of actors. I use gym work and muscle cars to illuminate, to throw light on the existence of a specific language. Of specific terms, which can be drafted to serve in an orchestra of actors.

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This was a walk. A long one. And I reflect upon three aspects of pedagogy - the PhD supervisions, the Capstone Project Supervision and the first year as a liminal space.

This is an episode about Placements and about my current project - "I am the Project" in Capstone Work. It is a pedagogy account. Or a musing about what I do in this space.Soumitri Varadarajan discusses the decline in campus placements in India, noting a lack of industry interest this year. He reflects on his experience coordinating placements at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and the cultural significance of campus recruitment. Varadarajan connects this trend to global layoffs and the impact of AI on job markets, particularly in the tech sector. He also explores the evolution of industrial design education and the shift of graduates into tech jobs. Varadarajan emphasizes the importance of self-initiative and global mobility for students, suggesting a need to reevaluate university curricula and the role of higher education in preparing students for diverse career paths.

This is an episode that relates to a studio within the territory of The Social Object. The Social Object is a book I have written. Why have I been offering prompts within a design studio setting?

The Social Object LINKThe aim of the author has been to silence the voice of the designer to allow the accounts of objects to emerge as periodic irruptions that reveal a hidden maelstrom of passion, ideas and ailed projects. The book opens with the biography of a project dealing with waste, leading the reader to a very particular kind of object, the bads. This object is illicit, handled by criminals and in the writing by the author serves to invert the dominant discourse of objects as commodities. This book makes the case that the program of design is better seen as a democratic community, where the householders, the zietgiest, technology and all manner of hidden agents collide to allow unforseen periodic objects to emerge.The Social Life of Things LINKThe meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, the essays illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations. By looking at things as if they lead social lives, the authors provide a new way to understand how value is externalized and sought after.

This is a 17 minute session. It is me musing about what Independent Study could be when located within a design context.

This is the third episode in a a mini series on - 2 kinds of innovation and the designer maker. As the definitive definition of Industrial Design? What is design when the post code is de-industrialised? Is it still okay to use this phrase?

This is the second episode in a three part series on Innovation - specifically as it pertains to Industrial Designers.

This year I have reframed Industrial Design as being in 3 parts. Social Innovation + Technical Innovation + Designer Maker. That is it.In this way we lay to rest the practice of referring to Industrial Design bits with Product Names. Or category Names. Or transient names aka fashionable names.

https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/05/12/pure-design-and-abloh/

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It is May 2024. I have mentioned the acronym i.e. ID. I have been asked to provide a voice note explaining this process.

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Link: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/can-you-tell-me-about-a-masters-by-research-and-a-phd/ Site 'PhD with Soumitri': https://sites.google.com/view/phdwithsoumitri/home

I had a conversation with a friend. About the creative period. As being in the 20s. That the Beatles and Keats both had their best works in that period.

This is a podcast about project design. Or the typology of projects - aka what are the types of projects. Or what are the 5 types that all projects can be classified into. See more here - https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/the-smeis-typology/

I have been reading Mariana Mazzucato. The Big Con is the book. Dont read it if you have a weak constitution or if you have a tendency to flame. I had to frequently put it down - it is that incendiary. LINK The title for this podcast is borrowed from here: LINK QUOTE "Cynicism around consulting is nothing new. That adage about a consultant “borrowing your watch to tell you the time” didn't come from nowhere. But the problem is now stark. According to research by McKinsey, 70% of transformations fail." If the things I suggest gets you hot under the collar (don't wear a collar?) - then maybe start with LINK - "The ‘Big Con' is possible in today's economies because of the unique power that consultancies wield through extensive contracts and networks – as advisors, legitimators and outsourcers – and the illusion that they are objective sources of expertise and capacity." For John Maeda's Tech Reports: LINK - I have always found Maeda's comments useful. As a window into thinking about the US ecology of tech. In my world of tech - the crafts still exist, and not everything is about the top 1%. So amazing insights from Maeda? Yes. Increases my diversity map of potentialities? Absolutely. Soumitri

Names in this episode: James Dyson: Best to buy the book I think. LINK Isambard Kingdom Brunel LINK Buckminister Fuller LINK Monika Mulder: http://monikamulder.com/ Guy Burgoyne: https://youtu.be/Jz0mKjwaBPQ Pernilla Johansson: Search in YouTube Ralph Gilles: Look up Abstract on Netflix. The binaries? celebrity versus altruism market versus ideé fixe Ideé fixe: https://www.britannica.com/art/idee-fixe

Maybe yes? Maybe no? Listen to hear about what I did. I have undertaken a pilot project to learn French in 4 weeks. I have attended 40 hours of classes at Alliance Française Montpellier – learning in that way. I have also studied French using apps and flash cards. I now have a good grasp of the language. The pilot project is complete. Flipping my project – I also have a good understanding of what is involved in language training, especially when it comes to learning English, from a background in French speaking. I now have a desire to implement a program to enable migrants to learn English. The Program I have visualized the program in three stages: 1. Making Sounds 2. Making Meaning 3. Getting it Right This program follows on from the principles of learner centered education. So it is based upon the principles of strength based education. Making Sounds Using the metaphor of sport and dance we can imagine that language usage involves the body, aka the muscles of the mouth. So this first phase is about training the muscles of the mouth to get the sounds right. Initially I imagine seeking the help of voice coaches to understand how to set up and implement a voice coaching program. The focus will also be upon cadence, pitch and stress – but largely to understand speech as a form of spoken word performance. So the desire will be to see the beauty of the sound, and to produce beautiful sounds. The outcome is the emergence of a sensory motivation, to produce laughter and to produce admiration. (4 weeks) Making Meaning Using the approach of strength based education, we can imagine that the adult has expert proficiency in one or more native languages. So this first phase is about using their native language to gradually add English into the mix. So for the francophone, this stage involves speaking French with more and more English words. Speaking in a form of pidgin English or a made-up argot will be encouraged. It is possible to imagine an emulation of a Parisienne speaking English. Beautiful? Yes. Useful, completely. (4 weeks) Getting it Right Using the approach of contemporary language learning – the focus here will be on narratives and stories. Both telling and reading will be practiced. It is possible this stage can involve the participation of tutors involved in the Michel Thomas Method. (10 weeks) Performance and Review At the end of this period – the participants will speak and function in English. The approach will be to limit the extent of the vocabulary. Plus the encouragement to drop into pidgin will be appreciated – for more animated expression of feeling. Pilot Program I am looking for a community setting to trial this project. The socialisation and the setting will involve the program being run from 6 to 9 (potentially).

Recording from Montepellier, France. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/

I speak about my foray into doing Instagram for a trip. I then muse about the typology of ways that constitute what we see as the visual instagram. In my case I sketch a typology in 5 parts, which sometimes expands to 6 parts. For more have a listen. For the Instagram account that I refer to, see: https://www.instagram.com/soumitri_varadarajan/

I am doing a few stub episodes on The Library. This first recording is about the Library as Place. The Library is a place. The library is a social space. The Library is a proposition open for coding as L4X.

This is an episode about pedagogy. It is also a bit about how design is constructed in the contemporary in my local area. Binaries Consumer Side/ Producer Side Destination/ Journey aka Product/ Process Design as Art/ Design as a Job City Studio/ Factory R&D aka Studio/ Lab Retail/ Museum Thing/ Service Local/ Exotic Rich/ Poor (and the middle class?) Theory/ Manufacture Gadget/ Decorative Object Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about Beauty. I have the book “On Beauty” by Umberto Eco sitting on my desk. Is that what triggered me to do this episode? Possibly. Podcast structure: Beauty in Three Parts Outer Beauty Inner Beauty The beauty of machines Essential Beauty Insider language: The Chatter, the isms, the flipping The preoccupation with thingness The form of things The essence within, the hidden Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ Memphis: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/sep/06/artsfeatures.arts Monobloc: https://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/detailpages/monobloc-a-chair-for-the-world.html Brutalism Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/protecting-modernist-architecture-for-generations-to/id1125550898?i=1000552674089 Lisa Krohn phone: https://www.mcad.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-lisa-krohn

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about Perfection. An instigation – aimed at students on their journey of becoming designers. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ CORRECTION: The Lexus car I mentioned as LFA is in fact the LC500. This is a link to an article - https://newsexplorer.net/one-of-the-best-sounding-v8s-in-production-is-from-the-lexus-lc-500-s922472.html A Japanese Craftsman built me a shamisen: https://youtu.be/M0Ic64TPJVc Busyman Bicycles: http://busymanbicycles.blogspot.com/ Takumi: https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/lexus/26907779.html Temple Sculpture: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/22/arts/design/looking-into-the-divine-eyes-of-spiritual-sculptures.html Birkin workshop: https://www.ignant.com/2019/11/05/an-exclusive-look-at-the-incredible-craftsmanship-behind-the-iconic-hermes-bags/

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about Learning. An instigation – aimed at students on their journey of becoming designers. An Australian lens specially crafted to see a very particular kind of territory and landscape of education? Maybe. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about China. A designer's China. A Designer's lens specially crafted to see a very particular China. I can open a door to China. A very peculiar door. My door. My China. Do you have a China of your own? Can you name 10 designers in China? 5 Architects? One fashion Designer? Do you love China? Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ La Chinoise (by Goddard) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts7HBWQXWfA Women of the Long March: LINK The last rose of Shanghai LINK Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: Book LINKMovie LINK China in Africa Podcast LINK Sinica Podcast LINK Keywords to follow up: Nanfeng Kiln, Lights out factories, Soho China

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about freedom. Freedom was the title of a book I read over the holiday period. Link below. 9.38 The Article I read out from: https://culturacolectiva.com/books/on-the-road-jack-kerouac/“Without this book we might have never had Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or films such as Thelma and Louise, Paris, Texas, or Easy Rider. Kerouac's influence is such that in the biographical Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors, the band's keyboard player, Ray Manzarek, claimed that without that book, the band might not have existed.” 12.17 Lines from the Ghost Song, by the Doors. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ On the Road by Jack Kerouac: LINK “With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean,” the reviewer noted. The Free World by Louis Menand: Book Review LINK Menand is truly one of the great explainers. He quotes approvingly a lesson taken by Lionel Trilling from his editor Elliot Cohen: “No idea was so difficult and complex but that it could be expressed in a way that would make it understood by anyone to whom it might conceivably be of interest.” Menand puts his own practice to the test. He is accurate, he is insightful, and he is not a dumber-downer. It is notoriously hard to summarize Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, structural linguistics, serial composition in music, or the formation of Great Power rivalries in the period of decolonization. Menand's account of each is an abbreviated tour de force. His explanations work at all levels: interpretation for scholars, review for general readers, introductions for neophytes. Where another writer would take 20 pages to tell us why someone or something mattered historically, Menand does it in two. Howl by Ginsberg: Review LINK Ginsberg's poem was an incantatory epic – emotionally and sexually explicit and intent on exploding the anxieties of the atomic age. Podcasts John Cage: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/strong-songs/id1443417194?i=1000484979414 How Not Podcast, John Cage: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-not/id1562586787?i=1000525410531 The Reason Interview, Louis Menand Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-reason-interview-with-nick-gillespie/id1485021241?i=1000529629177 Legacy, Jack Kerouac: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/legacy-the-artists-behind-the-legends/id1232652684?i=1000427749693 Witness Archive, Jackson Pollock: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/witness-history-archive-2012/id1003007466?i=1000377912938

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about temperament. The links are – further reading on this subject. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ Blog Post on Embodiement: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/temperament-and-embodiement/

I am treating design as a text - that can be interpreted. Then again I am using design as food. Which can be queried to seek its genealogy, why is it the way it is? Food is culture. Culture is the ways of a people. And here we have a package - a bundle - that can be opened to reveal. Design seen as a bundle - a thing holding secrets - can reveal the cultural construct. As you can see I could be making a case against design as a functional, utilitarian commodity making enterprise. Design as you will see is not work, and thus is not a thing done in workplaces. It is life itself. Phew!! Okay if so - then the bundle (bundle again) - has a key that can be used to unpack, and reveal the secrets it holds. In fact I say that there are ten keys that show design to be a constellation of ingredients. There you are - a dish madde up of ingredients. If design is food then the design of different peoples, of different places ought to be distinct. And so it is. Yes! Enculturation Embodiement Temperament Freedom Beauty Perfection Japonisme Japandi China Designerly Knowledge Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/

This is a live recording. I will be coming back to this episode, to ruminate and redo. That version is some weeks away. This is an episode about temperament. In the past I have posted in my blog about the twin essences of Embodiement and Temperament. Are these unique to design? Or am I making a place and a theme that will allow us to pivot away from the cerebral? Yes to Both. I am making a case that being within design is a gift. That keeps giving. The managerial-isation of design and the worker-isation of the designer is a strong force in contemporary society. But it is possible to harken back, to reclaim and to channel the soul of design. That takes you to a special place. The links are – further reading on this subject. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ Blog Post on Temperament: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/temperament-and-embodiement/ Artistic Temperament: https://larrygmaguire.com/artistic-temperament/ Parable of the sunfish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sunfish Slow Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture) Nissan's Takumi: https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/nissan-s-legendary-takumi-four-master-craftsmen-who-hand-build-every-nissan-gt-r-engine# Nissan Takumi (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMqRuN7wyvQ Nissan GTR: https://www.nissan.com.au/about-nissan/news-and-events/news/2021/september/the-performance-icon.html Driver's ownership review (Goldd!!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-dqjJjLNU Potter Simizu Genji (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybb-HhSrtxA&t=738s Genji Shimizu: http://mingart.de/albums/hokujo/ Nakashima on Pinterest (Faintvoice): https://www.pinterest.com.au/search/my_pins/?q=nakashima&rs=typed&term_meta[]=nakashima%7Ctyped

I was invited to deliver a lecture lecture at a Refresher course organized by HRDC, Panjab University, Chandigarh on the “Two weeks” Refresher Course (Online Mode) from March 12-25, 2022 on the theme: "Locating the Contours of Indian Modernities: Challenges and Possibilities". This audio is a recording of my talk. Tech: The online event was on Google Meet. I used an iPhone next to the laptop as my recording device. The editing was done on Audacity. The links are – further reading on this subject. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ Youtube Radio Bakri: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU7nrcTLINER4JSZVmK268tCVeqEnJxo5 Website Natkhat Ritika Project: https://sites.google.com/view/diya-jalayein/home?authuser=0 My First 6 Months Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mf6m/home Teachers Toolkit: https://sites.google.com/view/teach-toolkit/home James Tooley Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Beautiful-Tree-Personal-Educating-Themsleves/dp/193970912 Freire Banking Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_model_of_education Madras System (Monitorial System): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitorial_System Intensive mode of teaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjb2rzPr5Y4 Block teaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYSwlldgYoE Learning Contract: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-resources/teaching-tips/tips-students/self-directed-learning/self-directed-learning-learning-contracts Sirohi Goat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirohi_goat

This is an episode about enculturation which is both the process of becoming. A process of becoming a designer. With designer tastes and a designer view. I expand on culture, taste, people an places as key aspects of developing a knowledge of ones own process of enculturation. The links are – further reading on this subject. Links Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ Bringing Home the Birkin by Michael Tonello LINK Primates of North Avenue by Wednesday Martin LINK Enculturation: LINK Rites of Passage LINK Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu LINK. Plus Youtube Links. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th0eYWnGZ_4 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaRu4g4_lCw Diego Gambetta: Podcast - https://socialsciencebites.libsyn.com/diego-gambetta-on-signaling-theory and Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFJQ4PIn4vA&t=1153s The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink by Carolyn Korsmeyer - https://www.amazon.com.au/Taste-Culture-Reader-Experiencing-Drink/dp/0857856987 Furniture City: 1. Shunde, Foshan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYWfRhwUZ4 2. Lecong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvVdMDlZrr0

What is Design? Can be answered in any number of ways. While many would like to give you a definition of Design or Industrial Design. I think that would be wrong. For in the process of essentialising the meaning of design - you may end up speaking about something that you want to push. Are definitions by their very nature amenable to be used for propaganda? Why wouldn't you. Design like a pair of sneakers, is best worn. And not defined. And just like sneakers. Design can be apprehended. Held in your hand. And design can make you feel good, cool and awesome (choose your option). If design is like food, good to consume. Then why wouldn't you? If you are a devoted fan of this podcast, then I am feeding your addition. If you are not. A fan. Then go away. Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/ Adrian Forty Book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Objects-Desire-Society-Adrian-Forty/dp/0500274126

I have begun to speak to some young Industrial Designers in Melbourne. I have gained enough confidence with the tech, the Zoom camera, to venture into speaking with other people. And shoving the mic under their nose. I am probably not doing it right. But will keep doing it this way, or else I fear falling into the tech aspiration rabbit hole. I have escaped from the ‘indoors' tomb like sepulchral silence of the corporate podcasts by being outdoors when I speak. Not quite Attenborough, but chill enough so that I don't take myself too seriously. So this is Alex. Another student I have admired and marvelled at. They can be quite amazing, the passions and the journeys of these people one encounters in university life. Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ Alex Tatoulis: https://www.instagram.com/lxt.design/?hl=en Princes Park Playground, Melbourne: https://www.melbourneplaygrounds.com.au/princes-park-drive-playground-carlton-north#.YfIQ2GBxVB0