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Procrastination

While researching on what are, or could be various forms of addiction, I stumbled upon procrastination.

I think procrastination is positive.

Procrastination started as a distraction from work (what should be done). It was a different perspective, outside work. Since I have what should be done clogging my mind and just bringing in stress. I tend to distract myself from it. And since, it was stress; I went to things that made me feel relieved from that stress. Like things that I perceive as relaxing / calm / fun. For example, Music, movies, games, talking to other people, etc. (Everything else that I don’t perceive as work, or anything I relate to stress).

From all the things I was procrastinated with, I wasn’t just looked at them without perceiving it.

Can a person just look at something without perceiving it in any way? I think not.

What do I perceive from movies?

While watching movies;

understanding of different characters, different perspectives helps understand human behavior,

the plot/ space helps me see possibilities of spaces outside where i am.

the moral influences my thoughts

etc..

If the knowledge from work is considered as what should be done. How can I characterize the knowledge I gained while procrastinating?

What wasn’t supposed to be done? What shouldn’t be done?

It seems wrong and negative. Doesn’t it?

But does this perceiving of knowledge also seem negative? Not to me.  Maybe it’s anticipation (To deal with beforehand) Maybe it’s something else? What is this? Is this not learning?

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Future possibilities of exchange that may replace money-5

As belonging from design feild, we are thinking the future solutions. so It's started from my curiosity to study about the future.

And then suddenly thought about money.

How value and form of money is changing continousy.

But first I wanted to explore my personal views of money so i decided to experience and observe things many as i can.

May it it will help me to understand the others perspective.

I started observe people's behavior, activity,how they spending money.also tried to take examples that i have experienced.

In second write-up i have shared my childhood so i can rethink about that experience money is just a name for me.i tried to understand that in different way so i can understand and relate it further.

After that i shre two recent experience of mine in which there is shop worker perspective of money and a unknown person who tried to save his wife but she died in the hospital.somewhere it seems these two incident are similar to each other.

Not exactly but these both incident supporting each other you can feel relation between both.

In both incident someone is effected in different way.

What i understand from first case is ,that guy has not enough "values(afford,skills etc)to give anyone so he can gain such kind of values (as money) and buy some kind of value such as (food, medicine)

I don't now much about 3rd incident that happened at hospital, i can say only on the basis of my observation over there.

the guy who asked me to call someone didn't has a phone.

But when he asked me to call ,some value of a phone there as well.there is also some tears in his eyes that was depicting the value for SOMEONE,and fear on his face to loosing SOMETHING

I saw there, people(relatives) crying for women who died.

So,is it losing of someome or something?

I don't know what was it? because i was also there and not crying that time.

4:57am/2 August 2019

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Evolution

Future possibilities of exchange that may replace money.

As a designer, i m working on solutions for now as well for future. so It's started from my curiosity to study about the future.

And then suddenly thought about money.

How value and form of money is changing continousy.

I started observe people's behavior, activity,how they spending money.also tried to take examples that i have experienced.

In second write-up i have shared my childhood so i can rethink about that experience money is just a name for me.i tried to understand that in different way so i can understand and relate it further.

After that i shre two recent experience of mine in which there is shop worker perspective of money and a unknown person who tried to save his wife but she died in the hospital.somewhere it seems these two incident are similar to each other.

Not exactly but these both incident supporting each other you can feel relation between both.

In both incident someone is effected in different way.

What i understand from both cases is that guy has not enough VALUES(efford, skills etc) to give anyone so he can gain such kind of VALUES (as money) and buy some kind of value such as (food, medicine)

So till now i am trying to articulate these 3 VALUES in which money is connecting point of other two values.

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Part-4

After researching about people's beauty i.e. how the beauty for India context is, how people accept it or not accept and how it will work in further. While doing this I have seen that many people are still thinking about science-fueled experiences that beauty can be done through digital methods and every consumer can be working like a normal device which there are using every day in their life and even there will be radical transparency in their beauty. So now I want to understand that is it only about technology or also with other methods also and how it will be defined beauty.

-harpreet

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Emotions - 3rd

There have always been conflicts about our most powerful emotion.

LOVE

Or

FEAR

Love can change people. It can help people. It can hurt them. Love is powerful and extraordinary and scary. It makes you happy and hopeful and eager. It makes you irrational and dangerous and impulsive.

Fear is very constant throughout one`s life. Fear of failing, fear of rejection, fear of not being loved enough, fear of death, etc. But also there’s a second side to being frightened. There are times when we feel most frightened, especially when we fear losing something important to us is what drives us to take action.

In my research, I want to know “Why an emotional breakdown affects your quest for happiness”. As I believe that for some people this is the time when two of their most powerful emotion doesn`t concern them like it would have before going through that situation. The decisions they take at that particular time period are driven mostly by a different set of emotions.

Also, everything we do or every decision we take for ourselves is something that makes us happy, comfortable or makes us feel good regardless of our situation. For some people, this is also the time when your future expectations, your happiness or your comfort is the last thing that matters.

This research will help me understand what are the different factor that affects human emotions and how. Also the role of short term happiness and the long term happiness and how they help you channelize your emotions.

rishi

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Evolution

To choose the topic for the colloquium, we were supposed to do brainstorming about the things we are curious about or the things that excite us. There were many things in which I am interested in but there is always one thing that I am excited to know more is about conspiracy theories. In the starting I was interested to know more about conspiracies and how does it impact its reader into believing things that are sometimes unreal. But, later I realized for understanding impact I need to understand why they are spread online in the first place. Internet being only a source of information for people to read about a conspiracy that does impact its readers to believe things. So, I started experimenting with the L.O.E which was “How conspiracy theories create an impact in the mind of people through social media” I thought this L.O.E of mine is totally negative and I was doing the same thing which is happening with people on the internet- thinking only about the negative aspects. I tried to make my statement little bit of neutral to the aspects so that to understand the impact and spread of suspicious thinking -looking at all the aspects of its spread and for it to even exist. Therefore,  I rather tried to play around with words to keep my intent clear for me and for the reader, which is to understand ​how these beliefs and frameworks grow and spread online, in particular through social media.​?  

Nikhil Karamchandani                             

                          2-08-19

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UNWRAPPING.

Evolution.

 When we were told about this 16 weeks long research, I directly knew about what I had to do.

I started writing my first version of the abstract in which I explained my love for the automotive world, but since my Line of Inquiry was “What makes racing the most popular form of motorsport?”, my first abstract didn’t make a lot of sense because I was explaining something else.

Then from moving from my first abstract to my forth abstract I slowly explained my views on what makes it popular (according to me) and what is happening with the world of racing (to let the people know). With my final abstract I would try and take a deeper dive on why are people so attached to it.

*arin-joy-boy*

2nd August 2019

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Evolution

In the starting, my perspective towards atheism and practical thinking and people who follow them was very positive. I feel like they are doing the right thing. And the people who think very emotionally and do things accordingly, for me they were like dumb. But, after going through some videos, interviews, and stuff like that, I realized that the truth is a little different. Like the negative part of practical thinking and how people are trying to take advantage of it. The emotional thinking is quite necessary and how that is binding a lot of things together and gets to understand some importance of it.

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The Unfolding

It all started with a “Line of Inquiry,” i.e., “I want to know how a genre of poetry creates an impact on a person’s life.”, actually with a single word “Expressions.” But as I tried defined the intent behind choosing poetry, I understood that it was not only the different genres of poetry but actually different divisions of literature, i.e., poems and proses. But it will be too much to complete in 16 weeks. So, again came down to poems. Now, the “Line of Inquiry” has changed a bit to define better the intended with more clarity on the intent. So, the “Line of Inquiry” is, “I want to know how a poem impacts a person to make them connect to it.”

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Symbolism

Human species seem to have a fascination towards the use of symbols, and there is no reason why it shouldn't happen for it is symbolism that has enabled us to form structures of communication, calculation, categorization, etc. It is this ability ours to separately reflect on the world without a stimulus-response sequence that is called a symbol. The first known civilization, Sumer, had traces of script and language. From there the advancement of symbolism has been reflected in naturally occurring objects such as trees, branches, sun, moon, etc., & human-made objects such as brooms, carpets, prison, etc., or even abstract shapes such as numbers, squares, circles, etc., have assumed to have symbolic significance. Symbols initially were meant to be denotative, but with one's experiences with the symbolized, the symbols form connotative associations. It is because of those associations built in the unconscious, the study of symbols in the psyche has been significant, and it is these associations that find expression through language, music, art, or religion. We, with our symbol making propensity in language, have separated our world into nouns and verbs, where, names are denotative of things, and verbs are denotative of events, for names are what take part in the verb or make the verb happen. If this becomes the basis of our communication and thinking, and if we use only this method to understand the world by fragmenting it, we then would create a fragmented reality. Money, for example, is one of the most fluid symbols, so much so, where it symbolizes the all goods assumed for wellbeing i.e., wealth, but, in our everyday common sense, money has almost become synonymous to wealth, we presume a wealthy person must have a lot of money and therefore might be in a state of wellbeing. We are so used to symbolizing that we might mistake the symbols for being the symbolized, or in this case, we might believe, symbols get you to the symbolized. In the first part of the paper, I intend to experiment with ideas revolving around symbolism, further playing around with them to realize their depth in an individual, primarily, and then in collective. This area of research seems to be significant as it focuses on a somewhat innate nature of mind, hence allowing it to be subliminal as perception is built upon or based on the primary or initial built ideas which may seem so obvious that it remains unchecked. In later stages, I now, also see myself looking at how symbolism impacted the endeavors of ‘visual arts’ broadly speaking. I feel I’d be more open to new, fascinating ideas and be more experimental, improvisational while generating inferences.

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After knowing my line of inquiry as “whether there would be a reverse migration of people from cities to rural areas”,

The first writeup was more personal to me then on its iteration in the second writeup I added why conditions are becoming more worse in cities than the past years and more focus was on how pollution, human activities, and lifestyle are affecting cities badly and how rural areas are still much better than cities.

In the third iteration, I figured out the central argument so the writeup was more around central argument i.e. reverse migration while in previous it was more around city pollution. My views on why people might migrate back to rural areas. Also in earlier write-ups, I talked about other questions like what will be the lifestyle after reverse migration? What will be the source of income? And what will be the population scenarios?

But in this third iteration, I narrowed it and talked about the reverse migration only.

In the fourth iteration, I saw more possible factors that can lead to reverse migration and at present seeing on more factors that can lead to it.

In the initial write-ups I thought that migration might take place because of pollution in cities and health issues but now after some research I am getting to know about other factors also.

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“Understanding why conspiracy is spread online?

Conspiracies are always determined as a negative impression on its reader. Even if you search for conspiracies online. you will only get the negative aspects and the consequences which are due to that conspiracy. 

Conspiracies are a negative term, which means to conspire about someone or something. But, How many people go into the deep of that knowledge they are getting? Every assassination, war or any similar turn of events in the history of mankind brings along a  new theory to confuse the hell out of the reader. I mean, let’s be honest, would half the stories even make the newspaper or the TV show if the word “allegedly” didn’t exist?   

Conspiracy theories spread much like scientific knowledge online, depicting as they have some essence in reality. Although, there are proofs by the theorist to some theories such as Apollo 13, and more, it is still possible to encounter people who believe in a flat Earth, for example, the rapper B.o.B (Ledbetter, 2016). Why people still tend to believe over these things even after knowing the evidence is on the contrary?

Conspiracies do have an impact on health and environment For example, vaccine hesitancy is implicated in recent measles outbreaks (Frankel, 2015; Li, 2016). 

Information like these are sometimes made just to bring focus on something and are regulated anonymously. but sometimes they do provide information to some people. 

 Nikhil Karamchandani                                                        Part-4                         

28-07-19

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Symbolism

Human species seem to have a fascination towards the use of symbols, and there is no reason why it shouldn't happen for it is symbolism that has enabled us to form structures of communication, calculation, categorization, etc. It is this ability ours to separately reflect on the world without a stimulus-response sequence that is called a symbol. The first known civilization, Sumer, had traces of script and language. From there the advancement of symbolism has been reflected in naturally occurring objects such as trees, branches, sun, moon, etc., & human-made objects such as brooms, carpets, prison, etc., or even abstract shapes such as numbers, squares, circles, etc., have assumed to have symbolic significance. Symbols initially were meant to be denotative, but with one's experiences with the symbolized, the symbols form connotative associations. It is because of those associations built in the unconscious, the study of symbols in the psyche has been significant, and it is these associations that find expression through language, music, art, or religion. We, with our symbol making propensity in language, have separated our world into nouns and verbs, where, names are denotative of things, and verbs are denotative of events, for names are what take part in the verb or make the verb happen. If this becomes the basis of our communication and thinking, and if we use only this method to understand the world by fragmenting it, we then would create a fragmented reality. Money, for example, is one of the most fluid symbols, so much so, where it symbolizes the all goods assumed for wellbeing i.e., wealth, but, in our everyday common sense, money has almost become synonymous to wealth, we presume a wealthy person must have a lot of money and therefore might be in a state of wellbeing. We are so used to symbolizing that we might mistake the symbols for being the symbolized, or in this case, symbols get you to the symbolized.

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Forecasting PART 4

A forecast is a planning tool that is done by a group of people known as agencies that help management in its attempts to cope with the uncertainty of the future, relying mainly on data from the past and present and analysis of trends. Forecasting starts with certain assumptions based on the management's experience, knowledge, and judgment. The fashion industry has accepted these predictions as facts and they are following it blindly. Accepting these predictions as facts are the wrong option? According to me, it would be evident that what is written on this piece of paper is going to be the norm in some time.  Well, so why we are making these predictions as facts? this calculating industry has now become a norm for the fashion industry, and that is influencing the market badly.

The forecast is giving brands support to stand in the market and a platform to earn well. It is providing brands with a mood board of colors, textures, patterns, etc which make their work easy. In the end, everyone wants to be on the top and forecast is being a perfect platform for them. what is wrong if we are reliant on the forecast?  

Fashion today is so reliant on these predictions that the real creativity and new imagination which have to be implemented by the designers are vanishing. Eventually, the individuality is loosing, and the creative minds are not able to think unique. Our favorite designer they are just following the norms blindly. Now1000 of brands are taking their forecast from the same agencies. where is the individuality of the brands gone? where is the creativity of the designers? How brands are different from each other? just because of forecast brands are not able to be who they are their ideology is hindered because of the forecast.

-Shriyanshi Garg

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SP.NA part 4

What is space? Space is an empty area we can use. It's just AN AREA. What is Narrative? Narrative are stories that we identify from our surroundings or create new ones. They are not so much different from stories, there is more deliberation added to narratives.

Narratives can be of a different kind when working with space. let's take an example to understand this better. A group of friends goes together to visit a monument. If the monument has a controlled narrative in which it is decided from where a person has to go and visit the monument. on the other hand when there is an open narrative where there is freedom for the people visiting the monument then they can choose where to go first. I think if I had to choose one line for all of this it would be; DOES SPACE ABSORB US OR DO WE ABSORB THE SPACE?

It is not a rule which is set in stone that we can only have 2 narratives. Narratives get better with time, new narratives are also created from the people visiting the place, their interactions, etc. "We shape our buildings and afterward the building shape us"  What I have interpreted from is this line is there is never one narrative for a building. There is a narrative for the building and then new narratives are made by the people inside the building.

I had my LOI as 'does space and narrative work interdependently ?' but then it evolved to 'I want to examine a context for space and narrative working interdependently' I intend to identify context where space and narratives are working interdependently and understand the mechanism behind it and how can anyone change them according to their needs.

-Gatim Sachdeva

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Future possibilities of exchange, that may replace money-4

It these papers.

I don't know, where i am going?

where i will reach?

am i stuck?

Because till now i found many defination and example of money and it's difficult to understand or feel all that relevant to me.

but it's relevant for someone those wrote and said to me about money.

I have to go into previous papers to think again.

Let an previous example of the incident in which a shop worker replied me "paisa kuchh bbhi nahi hai,agar log khana bhi nahi kha sak rhe to paisa to kuchh bhi nahi hua na"?

In his this statement it seems he has some negative experience of money or somehow related with it.

But Let's think about this statement.

For that i have to go to the question again,what is money?

In past there were an system called batter system. in which people were exchanging there stuff or efford between each other according to their needs and requirements.

Some people also called it as system of trust.

Because it was run only on trust between peoples .and may be for that all people have to work hard individually on farming, making stuff,crafts etc. so they can exchange their things and fullfil the need.

There will be some limitations in exchange.and mostly people were more focused on requirements and need.

There is possibility that they were more focused on quality so they can able to exchange thing or also to get trust of each other.

with time trust between them has broken and also they has feel about different values of things.And they decided to creat a VALUE so they can exchange that thing accordingly.

In current world we have money,and we know the price of things.

price depends on afford,need, requirement of user.

But the other part is how someone can get money?

Afford of something can only possible if you have capability to afford MONEY.

Now everyone needs to buy things like food,house,cloths etc.for these needs you must need to have money.

So i can say that you can only afford money if you have money.

It's seems weird but let's think about money as value. so now the sentence is "we can only afford value-A if we have value-B"

Here Value is a wider perspective,you can pitt there requirements or need of people.

if you thinks we are buying such kinds of VALUE by paying onother kinds of value called money.