Dear Jinan
I am very interested to hear about your research. I recently presented at a conference with one of my former PhD students, Katherina Manolessou, a paper titled 'Being There: The role of place in children's picturebooks'. We are just finalising the text-based version at the moment. I also wrote on the subject a few years back in an article for 'Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature', titled 'No Red Buses Please', looking at the tyranny of the global co-edition and it's increasing inclination to remove a sense of place and local culture from the picturebook.
http://angliaruskin.openrepository.com/arro/handle/10540/110377
I'd be interested to hear more about your work.
Best regards
Martin
Professor Martin Salisbury
Course Leader, MA Children's Book Illustration
0845 196 2351
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Subject: new member: homogenization of sense of beauty and destruction of culture
Friends
My name is Jinan from India and my research is a round the impact of
design education in destroying cultural diversity. If any one is doing
some work i this area I would like to connect.
This is a study of 20 long years working with rural/ tribal artisan
communities, children and design students etc.
The study focuses on how a homogenized and ontologicaly reversed
design education impact the learner.
My study has led me to explore biological basis for cognition,
biological basis for beauty and biological basis for conduct.
I would also like to bring in the concept of destructivity which is
nothing but misplaced creativity.
I presented a paper at the design education conference at Hong kong on
the issue of beauty and the abstract is pasted below.
The link is http://designeducationasia.blogspot.com/
‘EDUCATION FOR AUTHETICITY AND CULTURAL ROOTEDNESS’.I am sending the
same for your reflections.The basic issue that I am addressing is the
homogenization of all cultures due to architects and designers
creating artifacts and habitats with de contextualized aesthetic
sense.
abstract:The biggest threat of modernity is homogenization of the
human cultures. The visual experience of modern spaces all over the
world is beginning to look alike- Architecture, artifacts, life style.
About a century ago we had diverse cultures with a distinct way of
life which defined our aesthetic sensibilities. The real issue is to
understand how culture is formed and how cultural diversity could be
retained. Culture is the result of how aesthetic sensibilities of
people get manifested in the things they make and how they live, and
aesthetic sensibilities were awakened naturally by engaging with their
contexts. In modern situation, Education conditions and homogenizes
the
sensibility of people through various subjects like art, architecture,
design etc. All over the world the same syllabus is taught! Hence if
aesthetic education involves awakening the senses by creating
situations for connecting to the natural context of the learners’
lives, there is a potential for making the learner authentic and
original. This authenticity will create rooted cultures and thus
retain diversity.
Jinan,
'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE BEING'
www.re-cognition.org
www.kumbham.org
http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/
reimaginingschools.wordpress.com
09447121544
0487 2386723
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