Dear Sally Hollis
I was looking at the discussion with a lot of interest but was staying away due to my several pressing committments and deadlines. Do share the material with anyone who can use it since I have not yet completed my intended reflections on that course which we created for the NID Foundation class in 1976 and it is still running true even today a part of their course offering for te undergraduate programme. Yesterday I posted a not on the course on my Facebook page along wit a picture of me at a brief meeting with Prof Gajanan Upadhyay of NID who is many. Years my senior at NID and we had create he course together with Prof S Balaram. I have shared my notes on the course with my co-teachers and my former students who are now offering that course titled Geometry or Geometrical Construction, as it was first called in 1976 when it was created.
On Facbook we received messages from many of our former students who had taken he course between 1976 and 1988 when I handed it over to my former students Nilam Iyer and C V Singh since I was asked to take over he Design Methods course which I changed to become the Design Concepts and Concern offering at NID which is fairly well documented on my Academia.edu archive under Design Thinking papers section.
Yes hat course is something special, and Geometry taught the way we did at NID does bring in advance concepts of math and structure to design students in a palatable manner. I must return to tis work and complete my reflections on the insights from he years of teaching and developing non-prescriptiveassignments for deign students to explore the domain o maths without having to deal with the difficult areas of abstract concepts and numeracy aspects but still approach the deep subject from the vantage of visuality, to use a term introduce to me by Prof Bonsiepe, the former mentor from HfG Ulm. He told us in his book Interface that he fields onf human knowledge can be divided into three domains broadly, hat of Literacy, Numeracy and Visuality, the last of which has ben forgotten by the university system but is alive an kicking within design education if the day.
We did use Bonsiepe concept som years ago in my class in Systems Thinking and Design where my students were given an assignment t develop. Comprehensive model that could capture the structure o all of human knowledge and they ended up with an amazing model that use a radial structure where the three broad domains were at the centre and these were surrounded by all the university courses that they could find, and it made a lot of sense to me, more later. geometry was used to inform the structure of this model.
Currently I am involved in teaching a newBasic Design course at CEPT University where we are trying to combine Geometry wit Composition values and our assignments remain non-prescriptive and I will share the outcomes at e end of this semester, however some posts on m Facebook page have some glimpses of e work in progress, live from my class at CEPT wit my colleagues there today. This course may be better documented in real time since my colleague Prof Jay Thakkar at CEPT has set up an online submission structure using the facilities of Lore.com. More later. Must rush to get my class.
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
From my iPad at home
19 September 2013 at 9.30 am IST
Prof M P Ranjan
Independent Academic, Ahmedabad
Author of blog : http://www.designforindia.com
Archive of papers : http://cept.academia.edu/RanjanMP
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On 19-Sep-2013, at 6:28 AM, sally hollis-mcleod <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Recently I followed some links of Prof M P Ranjan's and I came across a
> charming basic maths course report, which I moved on from as I was after
> something else. Professor Ranjan: would this be a nice addition to the maths
> for design conversation?
> Sally Hollis-McLeod
> New Zealand
> (about to bring home the cup)
>
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