How Craft got Re-Conceived

This is a transcription of a talk. Oral text … 3 NOV 2020 So let’s start from the beginning. You are across two different domains; hypothetically you’re across art and you’re across design. Now art is in the process of making art and the people who make the art are artists. For example, if you……

Remote Rural Poor Women

(Image Source) Narrative Text for a project on Maternal Mortality – (Text from ARC Discovery Submission 2012) This project is based upon the proposition that current practice of service design fails when used to develop services for poor and marginalized communities. Service design is currently centered around urban and affluent contexts. I wish to expand the……

The Body That Ages – Unruly Bodies – Medium

It is a cold and rainy day – yay. The cats have been fed. Dinner is a short while away. Eggs apparently. I have settled down to read – essays in wordpress. Writers I follow – for I want to get going with my writing. As wordpress is a good place to procrastinate. You may……

The Illicit and the Ad Hoc

(The text Describes the background to my thinking about the Project Nomadic Affordances) The affordance is the thing that’s makes something possible. So there exist a category of affordances that makes nomadicity possible. Flipped around the affordances that we design for “improving the quality of life” or “peoples experiences” are appropriated for nomadic purposes. If……

It Matters a Lot Who Teaches Introductory Courses. Here’s Why. – The Chronicle of Higher Education

I am the seniormost, oldest, academic in my area. And I am teaching 1st year – this year and for the next 3 to 5 years. I may have become a bit too excited about this experience – its a place of incredible positive energy. The fact that we manage to suck the life out……

Inside the big fat Indian wedding: conservatism, competition and networks

There were pastitsi’s in the over. It has been the required 10 minutes. The pastitsi’s are still wearing that white frozen pallor. I am waiting for them to get golden. Since everyone has gathered in the dining room. Hovering around the oven. I play ‘Radha’ to dispell the heaviness – and we dance. Which then……

Divi Theme

I have been a lover of wordpresssince 2005. Thats 13 years now. I have recetlty been introduced to Divi – for wordpress. Its amazing. So now my site is on wordpress. Take a look: http://soumitri.com.au/ Plus (thanks to Sophie) – it has a favicon for when you add the site to your iPhone.

Issues in Health Services Design focused upon Remote-Rural-Poor

  Soumitri Varadarajan, RMIT University, 2010 Abstract Maternal mortality is a significant health issue in India. Roughly 20 to 25% of Maternal Deaths on this planet occur in India. A major proportion of these deaths occur among the rural poor. To focus more sharply upon rural health indicators the Government of India has set up……

Producerism —and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur

I love this word – PRODUCERISM! “Producerism,” we can call this, by analogy with consumerism. What we’re now persuaded to consume, most conspicuously, are the means to create. And the democratization of taste ensures that no one has the right (or inclination) to tell us when our work is bad. A universal grade inflation now……

Mazda’s Vision Coupe Is the Hottest Concept Car at the Tokyo Motor Show | Architectural Digest

The sleek design looks like something Mercedes, BMW, or Audi would unveil but didn’t … Source: Mazda’s Vision Coupe Is the Hottest Concept Car at the Tokyo Motor Show | Architectural Digest