THANIMA
Tanima is the malayalam word for Authenticity.
Series of learning or exploratory conferences are being planned in order to initiate conversations around how to re think the foundation program. The first conference was held at NIT Calicut on January 30- 31- 2015.
‘Reimagining Aesthetic Unfolding – From Conditioning to Awakening’
2nd International Conference on Design Pedagogy and Contextual Aesthetics (ICDPCA)Please see the site http://thanima.co.in/ for the details.
The spirit of the conference is to engage in deep explorations and questions rather than ready answers and even when a solution is being offered, see the same with a spirit of openness. The objective of the conference is to explore various aspects of aesthetics - its formation, conditioning, politics, connection with culture and ways of teaching design pedagogy, the ambience for learning.
The reason for organizing the conference is to address the homogenization that is sweeping the world. The visual experience of modern spaces all over the world is beginning to look alike. In this regard, architecture and artefacts are no exceptions! Until last century, we have had diverse cultures with distinct ways of life and fitting aesthetic sensibilities. The homogenization of human cultures is one of the biggest challenges of modernity to be addressed by both academia and practice. The real issue is to understand how aesthetic sensibilities as manifested by the things they make and the spaces they employ are inextricably linked to the cultural context. It is the innate need of the system for its aesthetics to respond to cultural needs and nurture cultural diversity of local contexts.
Wellbeing and health of a culture depends on its authenticity and rootedness. The tangible- visible/ experiential- aspects of any culture is its aesthetic sensibility, which gets manifested in what and how people do.The buildings we make, the food we eat also when and how we eat, the language we use etc etc. In fact everything we do constitute our culture, even why and how. When people lose their authentic and original aesthetic sense, their culture gets destroyed.
Objective of the Conference
The Objective of the Conference was to explore various aspects of
aesthetics- its formation, conditioning, politics, connection with
culture and ways of teaching design (pedagogy).
This was also an open invitation for collaborative research in allied areas as well.
Series of learning or exploratory conferences are being planned in order to initiate conversations around how to re think the foundation program. The first conference was held at NIT Calicut on January 30- 31- 2015.
‘Reimagining Aesthetic Unfolding – From Conditioning to Awakening’
2nd International Conference on Design Pedagogy and Contextual Aesthetics (ICDPCA)Please see the site http://thanima.co.in/ for the details.
The spirit of the conference is to engage in deep explorations and questions rather than ready answers and even when a solution is being offered, see the same with a spirit of openness. The objective of the conference is to explore various aspects of aesthetics - its formation, conditioning, politics, connection with culture and ways of teaching design pedagogy, the ambience for learning.
The reason for organizing the conference is to address the homogenization that is sweeping the world. The visual experience of modern spaces all over the world is beginning to look alike. In this regard, architecture and artefacts are no exceptions! Until last century, we have had diverse cultures with distinct ways of life and fitting aesthetic sensibilities. The homogenization of human cultures is one of the biggest challenges of modernity to be addressed by both academia and practice. The real issue is to understand how aesthetic sensibilities as manifested by the things they make and the spaces they employ are inextricably linked to the cultural context. It is the innate need of the system for its aesthetics to respond to cultural needs and nurture cultural diversity of local contexts.
Wellbeing and health of a culture depends on its authenticity and rootedness. The tangible- visible/ experiential- aspects of any culture is its aesthetic sensibility, which gets manifested in what and how people do.The buildings we make, the food we eat also when and how we eat, the language we use etc etc. In fact everything we do constitute our culture, even why and how. When people lose their authentic and original aesthetic sense, their culture gets destroyed.
Objective of the Conference
The Objective of the Conference was to explore various aspects of
aesthetics- its formation, conditioning, politics, connection with
culture and ways of teaching design (pedagogy).
This was also an open invitation for collaborative research in allied areas as well.
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