We, at the University of Art and Design Helsinki/Media Lab, were lucky to host Professor M.P. Ranjan as a keynote speaker in our Activity Theory and Design FISCARS 2010 conference. It was a great choice as Prof. Ranjan spoke of his own experiences in learning craft and design from his father.
I had met Ranjan a year earlier in Helsinki and was so impressed by his knowledge of cultural heritage. At the time, with Aditi Ranjan, he was in the process of completing, Handmade in India: A Geographic Encyclopedia of India Handicrafts, a far-reaching work that documents the craft heritage of India.
I loved listening his stories, his critiques and opinions (always delivered with delicacy) and reading his blog that included fascinating pictures of works by his students.
We will miss you M.P. Ranjan
Lily
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Professor, Dr. Lily Diaz-Kommonen
Head of Research
Department of Media/ Media Lab Helsinki
Aalto University, School of Arts,
Design and Architecture
Miestentie 3, Otaniemi 05021, Espoo
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On 9.8.2015, at 16.16, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Friends,
It is with sadness that I inform you that M P Ranjan died after suffering a severe heart attack this morning. Professor Nina Sabnani of IIT Bombay wrote to inform me of his death.
This is a genuine loss to our community and to the field. Ranjan was a welcome colleague to many of us. He was a voice for the value of design in the larger world, and a participant in our ongoing conversations.
Ranjan said that all we really have in life is the square foot of earth on which we stand. The challenge we face is to work our own square foot of earth so that it is better and more fertile when we leave than when we got here.
Ranjan left his square foot better than he found it.
All of us who knew him are grateful for his contributions as a designer, a scholar, a teacher, an exemplar — and a friend.
Ken Friedman
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“I have lived at Cold Mountain
These thirty long years.
Yesterday I called on friends and family:
More than half had gone to the Yellow Springs.
Slowly consumed, like fire down a candle;
Forever flowing, like a passing river.
Now, morning, I face my lone shadow:
Suddenly my eyes are bleared with tears.”
— Han Shan
(translation by Gary Snyder)
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