Learner Centered Design Education

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.

This is an episode about pedagogy. It is also a bit about how design is constructed in the contemporary in my local area.

Binaries

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

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/