tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4418714480189015302024-03-05T04:55:31.218-08:00Awakening The aesthetic awarenessAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405532605026211322noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441871448018901530.post-43884210167085487192014-01-04T23:26:00.000-08:002014-01-04T23:26:04.769-08:00 Workshop on Awakening Beauty & Creativity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>For whom --- </b>Anyone. <b>Where --- </b>At Nilambur, <b>When ---- </b>February 5th to 9th 2014. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Awakening? </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Awakening is not the same as developing. Both beauty and
creativity are inherent to all human beings and gets awakened naturally if external conditions
allow. Modern spaces (schools)/conditions (consumerism) control and stifles
this by conditioning ones sense of beauty and making a belief structure with
'knowledge'. To get out of this box one has to break open the lid of reason,
knowledge etc. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For details Email me at jinankb@gmail.com, </span></div>
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Beauty</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Tell
them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,<br />
Then beauty is its own excuse for being<br />
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The
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The retreat is an attempt to awaken our sense of beauty
inherent in all of us by connecting with nature. Ability to see nature awakens
beauty, deep sensitivity and silence in us and makes us rooted to the world in
a real way. Ability see also makes one to be 'here and now'. Once we acquire
the ability to actually SEE then there no limit. Everything around one comes
alive, showing its colour, texture, shape, shadow, movement, stillness.</div>
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Creativity</div>
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Clay will be used as
the medium to awaken ones creative
potential. Rigid habits of the mind that hinder creativity will be explored in
the process of engaging with clay? Can one explore clay with out planing,
controlling, reasoing. Can one allow spontaniety to happen? Can one sit
exploring the nature of clay with out making anything?</div>
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Some of these questions will be explored.</div>
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At a deep level the workshop also will attempt to re
integrate our intuition and reasoning, our feminine and masculine, our innate
and outer knowledge. So the gathering is meant for addressing
our mechanical, fragmented, uncreative and habit formed selves, de
intellectualizing beauty which means to be with beauty without creating
theories, sensitizing our senses to become aware of the world as it is,
addressing our reasoning mind, understanding the organic way in which we
remember and comprehend. In a way to become child like again, to be open,
curious, attentive, innocent, humble. Or like children to live in meditation
all the time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">I am again planning to do a retreat <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>called ‘Awakening the Aesthetic Awareness’ at Nilambur from 20<sup>th</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb to 25<sup>th</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feb 2012 (Monday to Saturday). Link to the last years event is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.awakeningaestheticawareness.blogspot.com/">www.awakeningaestheticawareness.blogspot.com</a> .</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Last june I was also started an initiative near Pune called re imagining schools which was to work with a school to totally redesign the very concept of school. See the link <a href="http://www.reimaginingschools.wordpress.com/">www.reimaginingschools.wordpress.com</a> . The intense engagement with children and exploring cognition has helped me with new insights on experience.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This retreat is in a way the culmination of my work related to recovering authenticity, originality in terms of aesthetic sensibility and cognitive process.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This has been developed from my past 20 odd years of work (learning from) with artisans and children. (<a href="http://www.kumbham.org/">www.kumbham.org</a>, <a href="http://www.rediscoveringchildhood.org/">www.rediscoveringchildhood.org</a>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.my.opera.com/jinankb">http://www.my.opera.com/jinankb</a> )</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Two parallel explorations I have been engaged has been to understand how we have been damaged – homogenized, cloned, de skilled, fragmented, alienated- by the modern education and other conditioning institutions and tools– market, hospitals, TV, news etc. and how as a biological organism born with tools to make sense of its world understands it and inhabit. </div><div class="MsoNormal">School prepares us for processing and storing information by excessive importance given to memorization and development of conscious and instrumentalist reasoning. These two skills seems to be incapable of perception, creativity which is what is required in the realm of unknown.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This 5 day workshop do not claim to solve any of that but would probably initiate a journey towards that end.</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405532605026211322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441871448018901530.post-67399856327948398472011-07-21T01:16:00.000-07:002011-07-21T01:16:05.305-07:00Being in Beauty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 28.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">B e i n g<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i n<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>B e a u t y</span><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">A <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>m e d i t a t i v e<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>e x p l o r a t i o n<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";"><br />
</span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Khmer UI';">When 12<sup>th</sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Khmer UI';"> to 18th September 2011</span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Khmer UI';">Where </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Khmer UI';">Nilambur, Malapuram, Kerala</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #632423; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIvijrcWTXns9F8kwHjjV4yL10hItxdykOxkSQBnr35whd2MejcZGu7-3iOXPyP9TMCJgTYjTUvQT0KVcXYVDSsaEfCZxWx7pm6ItmF4ZmwF44oa-smmBKzLZtipxHkTtghNrWOOHkjk/s1600/DSC05907.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWIvijrcWTXns9F8kwHjjV4yL10hItxdykOxkSQBnr35whd2MejcZGu7-3iOXPyP9TMCJgTYjTUvQT0KVcXYVDSsaEfCZxWx7pm6ItmF4ZmwF44oa-smmBKzLZtipxHkTtghNrWOOHkjk/s320/DSC05907.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 19px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";"><span style="font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"><span style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">A gathering to de intellectualize, de conceptualize and de institutionalize beauty,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">The attempt is to recover the natural way of being in the world which has been damaged by the modern culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Homogenization, mechanization, fragmentation is the beingness of modern man. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Spontaneity is replaced by planning and control which stems from the fear of unknown and uncertainty. The beingness of modern man is in reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">This damage is brought about by the shift in language as communication tool to language as cognitive tool.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #632423; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Khmer UI';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Learning to </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">see<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">The biggest damage caused by textualisation of experience is the loss of the senses. So the retreat is about recovering our ability to SEE without conceptualization. Only true seeing can take us out of the conceptual world in to the real concrete world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Insight occurs with clearer seeing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Learning to be<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">This happens when seeing becomes natural, non-conscious. Involuntary.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">When one is aware of being aware awareness is lost. Children are aware without being aware. Recovering our childlike quality might help us to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #632423; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">For whom<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Anyone who wants to reclaim the authentic natural learning process and creativity. This could help Parents and teachers to enable them to see children’s real potential and to enable them to let children be.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Fees<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and registration<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Rs10,000 to be paid by 30<sup>th</sup> August 2011 along with the registration form. Any contributions over and above the basic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>registration fees are </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">welcome to support those who can’t pay</span></b><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">. (Fees also includes stay and food)</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Stay and food<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Simple stay will be arranged in a neat hotel in Nilambur town and food will be Kerala traditional home food.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;"></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti";">Route<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><span style="color: #4a442a; font-family: "Khmer UI"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Microsoft Yi Baiti"; mso-fareast-language: KO;">Nilambur is 70 km from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Calicut</st1:place></st1:city>, 100 km from Palghat and Trichur Rly station. 45 km from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Calicut</st1:place></st1:city> airport. Passenger trains run between Nilambur rly station and Shornur. </span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405532605026211322noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441871448018901530.post-39265720392785208082011-03-01T02:53:00.000-08:002011-03-01T02:56:56.076-08:00A note of dissent : Development Goals and Final report from the Second World Conference on Arts Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">"The aim <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">dissent</span> and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever pretensions <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> politicians, pedagogues other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Friends</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">The above quotation is from a speech delivered by top </span><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">See the link </span><a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212383-V...aduation-Speech" style="color: #3333cc;" target="_blank">http://www.sott.net/articles/<wbr></wbr>show/212383-V...aduation-<wbr></wbr>Speech</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">After I returned from Seoul I did post my response to many presenters. let once again raise some issues. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">The main issue that has been bothering me is the cloning </span><span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> human beings though modern education. All cultural diversity is being killed and replaced by one world view.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span">The problem with power is that it not only corrupts the mind butt also make one blind.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"></span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">As a person from India and having some what come out <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> the western conditioning I feel what is happening is a re colonization <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> non western world though the various projects- the UN, the academia, the corporate world etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">I think a deeper enquiry/ meeting/ soul searching is required to understand and do something about it.<br />
I consider myself a victim <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> modern education in general and having gone through design education at the post graduate level aesthetic education in particular.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><br />
I say this because it killed my cultural rooted ness, originality and authenticity. All <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> us in the non western world are being taught the western art, design and architecture and the respective histories and various movements etc.<br />
The result is that we have a homogenized world being made today. I see this all the time in India. It is a real tragedy.<br />
We once had several forms <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> architecture, artifacts and art forms and all are being destroyed by choosing the western idiom. All modern living spaces look alike.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">I would request UNESCO and the rest <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> the members to re think the issues raised and set up a research team to understand the whole issue all over again.<br />
How is culture formed? How did traditional cultures create diversity?<br />
And why is modernity creating homogenization? How do we deal with the harm we have already done and is being carried out. Can we set up new ways doing this with out killing the originality in children?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The most important aspect missing is the understanding regarding biological basis for cognition and aesthetic sense. Why did nature create us with the propensity for beauty. (art is an intellectual construct but beauty is a biological phenomenon).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">I think the real issue is to explore<span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the wholistic way <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> being in the world again by re integrating art, science and language', ‘re integrating work, play and learn’, ‘re integrating intuition and reasoning’, ‘re integrating the mind and body’, ‘re integrating the feminine and masculine’ , ‘becoming PRESENT to the moment’. This is the condition in which children are born but we the so called educated end by fragmenting everything.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Schooling causes several damages. It turns us in to second hand people as we keep learning about what others have thought and did. We are all born original but schooling makes us second hand. All our senses are crippled as we never use them to make sense <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> the world.<br />
Boredom is an experience typical to 'modern' human beings, again caused by schooling as it forces us to do things we do not like to do and on top <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> it do things against our biological or natural propensities. I suspect boredom has its roots in making us sit immobile from childhood quite against our will. Schools makes us in to rigid, mechanical and second hand beings, ready to serve or to order as we learn 'authority' at schools. Authority <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> teacher, authority <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span>knowledge.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Let me cut short my mail. Hope we can continue this dialogue.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am attaching the abstract <span class="il" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222;">of</span> the paper i presented and link to the presentation is<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jinan/awakening-the-aesthetic-sense-not-teaching-rz" style="color: #3333cc;" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/<wbr></wbr>jinan/awakening-the-aesthetic-<wbr></wbr>sense-not-teaching-rz</a></span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://awakeningtheaestheticawareness.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #3333cc;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>awakeningtheaestheticawareness<wbr></wbr>.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><br />
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Currently researching the musical cultures of children, Chee Hoo Lum is an Assistant Professor of music education at NIE, Singapore.Chee Hoo became interested in Jinan’s work after reading '<a href="http://awakeningtheaestheticawareness.blogspot.com/2011/03/note-of-dissent-development-goals-and.html">Note of Dissent</a>'- the email Jinan had sent to the members of the UNESCO conference in Seoul. Chee Hoo has no specific expectations from the workshop, but is open to everything the workshop may offer.<br />
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Principal at Harishree vidyalayam, Chennai, Deivanai’s interest in the workshop was sparked when she received an email about it. Having been an educator for close to a decade, she expresses a sense of dissatisfaction with the current system. She is keen to explore alternatives to mainstream education, and hopes that this workshop could be a springboard for the same.<br />
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Pushpa Gopal is also a teacher at Harishree Vidyalayam, Chennai and hopes to fine tune her senses, and achieve a new, different way oflooking at things, particularly, education.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4jkI1Go9opXg8G6xA4cu2DdhkCzRj9lk4DNm834m0panfX-jrs9nZElocNe7nRYwfwdIBFaEdNIr4NPrjQyZ8f1p90ILqdBC8RT7l9VbIlDGUGzScBhMVFGK3bFf8KyHi5CdcNYY3IY/s1600/partchild1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4jkI1Go9opXg8G6xA4cu2DdhkCzRj9lk4DNm834m0panfX-jrs9nZElocNe7nRYwfwdIBFaEdNIr4NPrjQyZ8f1p90ILqdBC8RT7l9VbIlDGUGzScBhMVFGK3bFf8KyHi5CdcNYY3IY/s200/partchild1.jpg" width="200" /></a>Shakti is a class 5 student from Coimbatore who is being home-schooled. She came to know of the workshop through her mother, and liked what she heard of it. She hopes to learn new things, enjoy nature and make new friends.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjTvV4P8xMGreb-p65yUaJiEgSf5mJREuL88XlvLdw_N353TvUYhfh2L8tYNnRY9loc9heCRzbu4yP27jZn_u8i-F8O3q-mZ6girLD_hgX0v_0kdV5r6ynYp4QXTRp3rQDnBX4RMjqkpg/s1600/khoji.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjTvV4P8xMGreb-p65yUaJiEgSf5mJREuL88XlvLdw_N353TvUYhfh2L8tYNnRY9loc9heCRzbu4yP27jZn_u8i-F8O3q-mZ6girLD_hgX0v_0kdV5r6ynYp4QXTRp3rQDnBX4RMjqkpg/s200/khoji.jpg" width="193" /></a>Khoji is from Baroda. He is part of Swaraj University, Udaipur, and loves to travel. He followed his gut-feeling to Aruvacode after receiving an email about the workshop from a friend. He hopes to further explore his concept of heart-based spaces- Non-Violent Spaces- at the workshop.<br />
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Sridhar is an architect from Bangalore who first heard of Jinan through his wife who had met him at a conference. He isn’t sure of what to expect from the workshop, but is on a quest for knowledge He hopes to understand what aesthetic awareness is, and to help his children preseerve their natural selves. Sridhar is particularly interested in the intersection of aesthetics and spirituality.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYGF81ip8tOn843OulFiIsorOLtuUt5lyRcnjr_7og-UT1uBlTOOIsYeOBEUpRAHFvVGqbZk41DFIYSsweFwoN9zwpNMBqfZ6fbGjVh66N-UtTJdGC5CW0ZdmmWHIXECyHmPGiLh9XIO8/s1600/paticipants2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYGF81ip8tOn843OulFiIsorOLtuUt5lyRcnjr_7og-UT1uBlTOOIsYeOBEUpRAHFvVGqbZk41DFIYSsweFwoN9zwpNMBqfZ6fbGjVh66N-UtTJdGC5CW0ZdmmWHIXECyHmPGiLh9XIO8/s200/paticipants2.jpg" width="200" /></a>Devi K from Madurai, is currently awaiting the results of the Civil Services Exam. A mother of two, she has been home-schooling her younger child for the last 10 months. Devi is here to learn. She came to know of the workshop through Sivakumar, and hopes that it will help her understand the many dimensions of ‘sense’, and open herself to the many ways of approaching a single thing.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2VSFRs1mtASgucWX4hqNe-ApE17Fz33r_HKrbVvrabbhXeq5FBqNDibZieWPcsWuS5_128dDWdA0uKl3vru2lrA8SIffIBkVH_PW3hyru_3MBH8HZC4zbbS6sy3u5E5UBPdAiJKeJZTU/s1600/paticipants8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2VSFRs1mtASgucWX4hqNe-ApE17Fz33r_HKrbVvrabbhXeq5FBqNDibZieWPcsWuS5_128dDWdA0uKl3vru2lrA8SIffIBkVH_PW3hyru_3MBH8HZC4zbbS6sy3u5E5UBPdAiJKeJZTU/s200/paticipants8.jpg" width="200" /></a>Sivakumar B, a filmmaker and animator from Chennai has previously attended one of Jinan’s workshops as part of the events at a Tamil Heritage group run by his friend. Father to an 18-month old, he is scouting for the best method to occupy his child without resorting to standard education, and is here to observe and explore.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidn3oGEq8GeISM5NJnrp9JIdtrqCa5IcohZj0TX_lKCoemWcPNqpos0aBZLeJpUYGnI8ugxwQJ9N24uIWRFXiPowlb1uvqh1_uK7TF_8PejdTbtYtfzC6S5CA28kY_w4B7rSgCIEYPC00/s1600/part1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidn3oGEq8GeISM5NJnrp9JIdtrqCa5IcohZj0TX_lKCoemWcPNqpos0aBZLeJpUYGnI8ugxwQJ9N24uIWRFXiPowlb1uvqh1_uK7TF_8PejdTbtYtfzC6S5CA28kY_w4B7rSgCIEYPC00/s200/part1.jpg" width="164" /></a>Ravi, from Pune, has recently begun a travel company. He met Jinan and became interested in his work during the course of setting up tours with a focus on culture and tradition. He hopes to improve his aesthetic appreciation and to enable himself to think from the heart rather than the head.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoPkPSGgqF7UmcD8T52wGBx54vJKSBMy2VNC1hmlB17QLugaytijTG5Sm8yc1h-PO-roJHB6Er2ffA_0asaV2VAYqX-lrLDif-f8CmHcR1OCTEitrBUXdHn-IN3bsRqY3bPVzXvDy-Pvw/s1600/jos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoPkPSGgqF7UmcD8T52wGBx54vJKSBMy2VNC1hmlB17QLugaytijTG5Sm8yc1h-PO-roJHB6Er2ffA_0asaV2VAYqX-lrLDif-f8CmHcR1OCTEitrBUXdHn-IN3bsRqY3bPVzXvDy-Pvw/s200/jos.jpg" width="200" /></a>Joseph is a traveler, seeker who has been on the move since 15 years. Joseph is an amazing soul – patient, loving, humble, wise, uninhibited and fun to be with. He has spent the majority of the last 15 years in the Himalayas on his spiritual quest and generously shared his experiences with anyone who was interested. He also guided the early birds with Yoga.<br />
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Jinan, the initiator of the retreat has been exploring the damages of schooling for the past 20 years and was keen to to share the journey and see others felt about the issues.<br />
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<i>The wholistic way of being in the world.<br />
're integrating art, science and language' ‘re integrating work, play and learn’<br />
‘re integrating intuition and reasoning’ ‘re integrating the mind and body’<br />
‘re integrating the feminine and masculine’ ‘becoming PRESENT to the moment’<br />
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Why we should awaken the sense of beauty within ourselves?<br />
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The retreat/workshop is an attempt to repair the psychological, physiological and cognitive damages done by modern institutions (schools, market and hospital) and culture. <br />
Schools makes us in to rigid, mechanical and second hand beings, ready to serve or to order as we learn 'authority' at schools. Authority of teacher, authority of knowledge.<br />
Another damage is the inability for creativity as we loose our intuitive ability because of over use of logic and dependency on memorized knowledge. The reasoning ability is often used to reason away, to maintain status quo of our rigid and static mind. <br />
Since our link to the world is through text our experience is textualised. <br />
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WHEN <br />
16th Feb to 20th Feb 2011 (Wednesday to Sunday)<br />
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WHERE<br />
Nilambur, Malapuram, KERALA<br />
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HOW<br />
Beauty is the most fundamental of human existence. Beauty is what truly makes one authentic. Beauty is what binds us to the external world. <br />
Senses are our doors to knowledge and beauty.<br />
Consciously learning to experience the beauty of the world by seeing, touching, feeling. <br />
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PROCESS <br />
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Engaging with nature, Habit breaking, Dialogues, silence, reflection, sharing,<br />
Sensitizing senses, Awakening of aesthetic sense is brought in as a central issue. making, drawing, seeing, listening This helps them to move away from ‘rational’ mind to some extent.<br />
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For whom<br />
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Anyone who wants to reclaim the authentic natural learning process and creativity. This could help Parents and teachers to enable them to see children’s real potential and to enable them to let children be.<br />
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Fees and registration<br />
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Rs 7,500 to be paid by 20th January 2011 along with the registration form. Any contributions over and above the basic registration fees are welcome to support those who can’t pay. (Fees also includes stay and food)<br />
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Stay and food<br />
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Simple stay will be arranged in a neat hotel in Nilambur town and food will be kerala traditional home food.<br />
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Route<br />
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Nilambur is 70 km from Calicut, 100 km from Palghat and Trichur Rly stations. 45 km from calicut airport. Passenger trains run between Nilambur rly station and Shornur. Contact for more details.<br />
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contact details. jinankb@gmail.com mobile 09447121544 or 09995495325. www.rediscoveringchildhood.org http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/sensing-nature, http://awakeningtheaestheticawareness.blogspot.com/<br />
Postal address: Surabhi, S.N.Park, Thrissur, Kerala. 680004<br />
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're integrating art, science and language'<br />
‘re integrating work, play and learn’<br />
‘re integrating intuition and reasoning’<br />
‘re integrating the mind and body’<br />
‘re integrating the feminine and masculine’<br />
‘becoming PRESENT to the moment’<br />
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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.”<br />
Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us. <br />
Julia Penelope<br />
there are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.<br />
J. Robert Oppenheimer<br />
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Why<br />
The retreat/workshop is an attempt to repair the psychological, physiological and cognitive damages done by modern institutions (schools, market and hospital) and culture. All the tools and skills we acquire become tools for escaping from ourselves. To escape from facing what is wrong with us we do ‘social work’. We are afraid of confronting ourselves.<br />
Foremost that comes to mind is our tendency to imitate the west which causes inferiority complex. As you know most of what we do is imitation of the western culture. But in response to this our reaction is to imitate the east since ‘to imitate’ is what we learn at schools. Imitation as a way of learning is drilled in to us and any exploration is disallowed.<br />
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Schooling causes several damages. It turns us in to second hand people as we keep learning about what others have thought and did. We are all born original but schooling makes us second hand. All our senses are crippled as we never use them to make sense of the world.<br />
Boredom is an experience typical to 'modern' human beings, again caused by schooling as it forces us to do things we do not like to do and on top of it do things against our biological or natural propensities. I suspect boredom has its roots in making us sit immobile from childhood quite against our will.<br />
Schools makes us in to rigid, mechanical and second hand beings, ready to serve or to order as we learn 'authority' at schools. Authority of teacher, authority of knowledge.<br />
Another damage is the inability for creativity as we loose our intuitive ability because of over use of logic and dependency on memorized knowledge. The reasoning ability is often used to reason away, to maintain status quo of our rigid and static mind. <br />
Since our link to the world is through text our experience is textualised. With the digital era this is getting totally illusionary. Even beauty is intellectualised. since we lack experiential and concrete way of being in the world words become our guide. <br />
So workshop is meant for addressing our mechanical and habit formed selves, de intellectualizing beauty which means to be with beauty with out creating theories, sensitizing our senses to become aware of the world as it is, addressing our reasoning mind, understanding the organic way in which we remember and comprehend.<br />
In a way to become child like again, to be open, curious, attentive, innocent, humble.<br />
Or like children to live in meditation all the time.<br />
Any attempt to search for alternative end up with in the frame work of the fragmented modernity. <br />
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Objective<br />
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1. to attempt to regain child like qualities that enable one to be creative .<br />
2. to enable the adult to understand what the child needs to retain their creativity. <br />
3. to address various damages caused by schooling.<br />
1. To address the fragmentation caused by schooling. To re integrate the wholistic nature of human being<br />
2. To address the alienation caused by schooling. To regain originality and authenticity.<br />
3. Initiate awakening of senses so that they become more observant and attentive which will make them to strive for becoming first hand.<br />
4. To awaken their aesthetic sensibilities so that their being in the world becomes contextual and this also helps the learner to learn to engage with the world aesthetically.<br />
5. To learn to observe children with out the biases of the so called educated mind.<br />
6. to address various aspects that blocks unbiased learning like power, lack of humility and innocence, partiality of all types etc<br />
7. to address the block created by the ‘reasoning’/ rational mind.<br />
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Why/ whom/<br />
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1. For Parents and teachers to enable them to see children’s real potential and to enable them to learn from children.<br />
2. for the cognitively damaged adults to enable them to re look at certain fundamental issues related to How learning takes place or how human beings learn and to attempt some recovery. Modern education damages our cognition and fragments the being. We not only sees the world fragmented but also fragments the our very being. We become mind, word and reason dominated with the loss of body, intuition and experience.<br />
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how human beings learn?<br />
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Knowing is an integrated act, not separated by language, science and art<br />
nor is it fragmented as learning, working, playing etc. <br />
Children, in the process of making sense of the terrain in which they find themselves, observe, touch, smell, twist, break, taste, make. They engage with the world with out fragmentation.<br />
Toy is an idea totally misunderstood by the modern adult. Playing is actually learning.<br />
The world outside is integrated and the child is born holistic and is part of this NATURE.<br />
This is the way human beings respond as biological organism.<br />
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What schools do?<br />
As we all agree what ever is happening at schools are terribly wrong. We are crippling our children and ourselves.<br />
Children are born in to the experiential paradigm to be rooted but we soon pull them out to believe in our distorted intellectual notions about life.<br />
We need to understand how cognitively damaged and totally confused we are regarding all this and try to undo the damages.<br />
How learning happens- conditions- internal and external<br />
Like water knowledge flows from above to below. So if one needs to learn from children one needs to give up power. <br />
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Why learn from children?<br />
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When we compare ourselves with children it is clear that they are superior to us in the following qualities.<br />
They are more observant, open, honest, inquisitive, innocent, flexible, daring and also in constant wonder. They are totally rooted and present. They are in touch with the beauty of the world.<br />
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Which of these qualities do we still retain? <br />
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The paradigm in which we are bringing up our children is one of greed, power, authority, brute force, competition, selfishness, pride, cheating, hypocrisy, boredom etc<br />
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The topics I would like to address.<br />
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Biological basis of knowing. To understand how as a biological organism we learn.<br />
Bilogical basis for beauty. To understand what is the basis for beauty. Art is a psychological construct where as beauty is a biological fact.<br />
Human being can live with out art but beauty like breathing is absolutely necessary for the human organism. The beat of his heart, the gait of his walk, his connection to nature all are part of this biological necessity.<br />
Human alienation begins with the disconnect between the biology and psychology of BEING.<br />
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Cognitive damages of schooling. To understand how schooling damages us.<br />
Paradigms of knowing. To understand how the cognizer is conditioned by the paradigm in to which he is born.<br />
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Process<br />
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1.Mirroring- facing oneself<br />
First phase is to make the participents realize where they stand in terms of their learning capacity, knowledge base etc for example rigid, habit formed mind. Dependent learning style , initiate self reflection etc<br />
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2.Habit breaking<br />
This phase is to make participants address their habit formed responses, biases, inhibitions etc<br />
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3.Sensitizing senses.<br />
This phase is for the participants to awaken their observation skills and aesthetic sensibility.<br />
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4.Re birthing<br />
Hopefully this will happen may not be during the workshop but may be at a later date.<br />
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Techniques used.<br />
Meditative work with clay, habit breaking activities for body and mind, sensitizing the sense activities, Theatre workshop, drawing, painting, clay work. Dialogues, silence, presentations etc<br />
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Material requirements.<br />
Clay, Poster colour, 6 inch scale, pencil, paper, sketch pen.<br />
Duration<br />
For any substantial impact the duration should be a week to 10 days.<br />
Rule of conduct<br />
During the retreat the participants need to follow instructions strictly as other participants will be disturbed. No reading, no watch, no mobile phone, news papr, tv etc. no discussions as silence is required during the workshop. No processed food allowed. As far as possible un cooked food. eat less, eat only when hungry, break away from routines. Listen to the body, Respect the body<br />
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Jinan<br />
I am no expert in the above said matters but have been at it from 1982 or so.<br />
I am a victim of modern education and culture that crippled me in several ways. For the past 25 years engaged in recovering what I lost with the help from children and non literate people. No credentials to prove anything. Just that the search/ research had been a very consistent and a committed one. <br />
Would like to share the experiences and insights.<br />
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Links<br />
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SITES<br />
http://re-cognition.org/children/sensingnature.htm<br />
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http://www.rediscoveringchildhood.org/sensing.htm <br />
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BLOGS <br />
http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/sensing-nature <br />
http://awakeningtheaestheticawareness.blogspot.com/<br />
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Powerpoints <br />
http://www.authorstream.com/tag/Jinankb <br />
http://www.slideshare.net/jinan <br />
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Youtube<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNFM-uUzqE8<br />
Biology of knowing links<br />
http://www.vimeo.com/8026239<br />
http://www.vimeo.com/8214350<br />
http://www.vimeo.com/8430320<br />
http://www.vimeo.com/8355866Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405532605026211322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441871448018901530.post-70012502631150786352010-10-03T19:34:00.000-07:002010-10-03T19:34:50.922-07:00‘what is wrong with design education in India’<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE"></meta><title></title> <meta content="OpenOffice.org 3.1 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR"></meta> <style type="text/css">
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This question of </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>‘what is wrong with design education in India’</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> has been my last 25 years of re search (research). That is from 1985, from the third month of my stay at NID I have embarked on a journey that has led me to several aspects of learning, aesthetic sense, cognition, biology of knowing and children, indigenous wisdom knowledge etc. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What bothered me at NID was that the design sensibility that was being imbibed was very western and industrial (this was a later revelation) that it was producing designers with western aesthetic sensibilities and were also being conditioned for a standardized design process (which is probably ok in Industry). A kind of a mass production of sorts. The same process is being applied whether the designer is working in the craft sector or with children!</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The outer manifestations of any culture- architecture, craft, food, music, dance and ritual are imbued with the aesthetic sense of the people who belong to that culture. When year after year students are subjected to a western design process and learn design through western history and western sense of aesthetics, is it any wonder that generation after generation gets estranged from their own history, culture, individual sense of beauty and their very being. This is true of all educational institutions in this country. All aspects of our being are subjected to this false conditioning. At the level of information all we learn is about the west. At emotional level we feel inferior to the west and become imitators and our aesthetic sense is also transformed as we learn the western aesthetic sense. At the same time all true qualities of a learner is also destroyed by the schooling process. One learns to compete, lie, to cheat, to project one self etc. </span></span></span> </div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Humility is replaced by arrogance and false pride.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Before I go on I would like to state my admiration for various thinkers and doers who were part of the design movement in the west. They were being very honest to their situation and were responding authentically nor am I blaming the people who brought design education to India. Probably the political climate of those times did not allow this kind of search and obviously we were imitating (aping is a better term) the west in every other aspect of our lives too.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">There no villains, only victims of their conditioning. </span></span></span> </div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">At two levels the design education was creating problems. One at the aesthetic level and the other at the process level. The second may be ok with in the industry frame work but it was surely creating havoc when that process and sensibilities were being applied at the craft sector. Designers working with artisan communities are already doing lots of damage and from the past few years the NIFTians and IICD ans (NIFT National Institute of fashin technology, IICD- Indian instiute of Craft and design) are also systematically taking part in this. Students can’t be blamed as they are being ‘taught’ that they need to ‘help/ save’ the artisans with their ‘design skills’. Power corrupts perception. And added to this if greed is also present then it completely distorts they way we see things (want to see things). </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Now that I have been going to IICD, it has clearly given me a picture of what is wrong with design education preparing students meant to work with artisans. Machine aesthetics is being imposed on students as they are being taught the same courses that are being used at NID. The design process also makes students to think in terms of the logic of industrial production. Mass production, scaling up, standardized design solutions, moulds, mechanization etc. One is taught to forget the strengths of the craft system. That they can produce variations with no extra effort, artisans are very skilled already or have the potential to become one (see the link </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.rediscoveringchildhood.org/kollam.htm"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.rediscoveringchildhood.org/kollam.htm</span></span></a></u></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">) and the strength of the craft is that it is very location specific with diverse aesthetic sensibilities etc. But since we are only taught how to impose and not the sensitivity, respect nor the eye for seeing their strengths we, along with other professionals takes away the self respect and self initiative of the rural artisans. So in that sense the designers will soon homogenize and standardize the diverse crafts in India unless serious re thinking is initiated. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Since the introduction of design education in schools has not yet happened we do have the possibility of re think. My research has also gone deeply in to the biology of learning. Till now the focus has been on the psychology of learning. It is very clear that our educational system is producing mindless and insensitive professionals with no sensitivity and creativity. The recent increase in suicides among school children points to the big crisis. Again and again the real culprit is not identified and instead the students, the parents and to some extent the teachers are being blamed. The very idea of ‘schooling’ or in other words ‘cloning’ goes against the very nature of how human being learns. So we need to take this as a design problem and find out what is wrong with schooling. A deeper study is called for.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I would like to end this with looking at what has gone wrong with modern Indian architecture as they also had followed a similar path. Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, is the only city in India that has a distinct architectural character. Because in Srinagar architects have not had opportunity to practice architecture. Even though the designer has to function in local contexts the design education is non contextual. Every generation needs to relive, recreate and reinvent certain aspects of its cultural sensibilities by engaging with the reality around them. The student needs to be PRESENT to the local contexts totally-psychologically, emotionally and sensually and the teachers should play an effective role to ensure all. Contextually rooted aesthetic sense is what once created the diverse cultures around the globe. The present architecture of Srinagar also points to the fact that ‘un trained’ people have the ability to respond to modern needs with in their cultural frame work, most often unconsciously. May the conscious and sensitive designers role is to step out and allow this to happen. Laurie Baker, a British man by birth seems to be a good example to emulate. He learned architecture in England but practiced in India, creating culturally rooted architecture. He responded honestly to the local needs without being driven by the market forces. So what did he bring from his education from England and what did he drop? How do we produce more such people through education? Authentic aesthetic sense is one of the key factors that lead to cultural diversity.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I have researched on indigenous design process and education since 1989 among non literate artisans and children. Traditional artisan’s learning is experientially rooted, learner driven. It has the quality of re-creating, re-inventing and re-living knowledge. The cognitive space ensures the first handedness in these learnings and helps the learner to situate oneself in the cultural conditions of ones life. Can there be an education that is sensitive to these vital issues that retains diversity and authenticity? Do look at some of the links below to see some examples of the work/ research being carried out. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By the by what fundamental RESEARCH are our institutions doing or supporting?</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Links to my work with children. Following the principles of non interference (Other word is ‘teaching’) children began to create absolutely beautiful stuff. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">WEB SITES </span></span></span><a href="http://www.rediscoveringchildhood.org/sensing.htm%20BLOGS"><span style="color: blue;"><u><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.rediscoveringchildhood.org/sensing.htm </span></span></u></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">BLOGS</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/sensing-nature%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20POWER"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/sensing-nature </span></span></a></u></span> </div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Powerpoints </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.authorstream.com/tag/Jinankb</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jinan"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.slideshare.net/jinan</span></span></a></u></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405532605026211322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-441871448018901530.post-88117058653969404822010-05-23T01:19:00.000-07:002010-08-07T21:30:10.025-07:00Awakening the aesthetic sense, not ‘teaching’ art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbzxSzEt5_dlYDHnOjvTm5ciSnA8IMH6TcApdRrqFTV4JAO5oT7X2wHNIVEHmcKYSztH9waLJti3T4NjKWJ-Eyi_OZ9qMsAtF-OmDqGt02mC4b4XhtdMeZhhX9UEZipxZCfYl97QpuoQ/s1600/aw7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6y7AG05VznpfiR-TDG_A74XGAj17ghOSSCrHApGeF-5gxeALrV7_zIgdum0psBf7Z9GYGNlgFcjkyAn82odPJdxICiRIbvQklpbPojyGbLZZB7dKvajM9PPdIheBMp9-yDGJ4bvIkOk/s1600/aw19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6y7AG05VznpfiR-TDG_A74XGAj17ghOSSCrHApGeF-5gxeALrV7_zIgdum0psBf7Z9GYGNlgFcjkyAn82odPJdxICiRIbvQklpbPojyGbLZZB7dKvajM9PPdIheBMp9-yDGJ4bvIkOk/s200/aw19.jpg" width="193" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Introduction</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Culture has direct link with aesthetic sense, creativity and the respective ecology in which people live and connect. In fact beauty is the link that connects people to their environment. Cultural diversity has been the result of diverse aesthetic sensibilities developed in people as a result of living in diverse ecological conditions. This act of authentic living is itself act of knowledge creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #660000;">Modern education not only kills creativity but also kills the cultural diversity as it ignores the two most important aspects of knowledge creation, which is the biological process involved in making sense of the world and the need to connect with the space in which they live.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So naturally the biggest concern about the present main stream education is that it kills creativity. And the frenzy with which ‘art’ is being introduced seems to me an attempt to counter these damages. But schools and ‘schooling’ not only kills creativity, it also kills authenticity, cultural diversity and aesthetic sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And teaching or schooling per se could be the cause irrespective of what is being taught.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Revisiting the fundamentals</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To begin with it is important to revisit some basic issues that are being taken for granted like what is the purpose of beauty in human life? Just as what is the purpose of knowledge in human life. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is also important to go deeper in to some of these basic issues like what is creativity, how exactly does schooling destroys it and what is art, how is art going to counter the destruction of creativity etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Before we go in to the above raised issues let us also look at what has been achieved by the teaching of art, architecture and design at the graduate levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The visual experience of modern spaces all over the world is beginning to look alike- Architecture, signage, hoardings, products, colour sense. Homogenization of aesthetic sense brought about through education is destroying all cultural diversity. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What is culture then? How does culture gets transmitted? How is cultural diversity preserved?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">About a century ago we had diverse cultures with distinct way of life and aesthetic sensibilities that created contextually rooted architecture and artifacts. The learning process that ensured this needs to be revisited as the present education has created total homogenization all over the world. The design and architectural education can be blamed as one of the most destructive agent for destroying diversity, leading to similar lifestyle. Courses taken from the experience of western culture- Bauhaus, Ulm being the foundation of design education all over the world has psychologically damaged the being at all levels - aping the west, inferiority complex, cultural insensitivity and other cognitive damages. This is true of art and architectural education also.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The real issue then is understand how to retain the cultural diversity and help the learner to retain their original, authentic sense of beauty which is in true sense based on the experience of the real context in which they lead their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">To my mind ‘art’ education if that as treated as ‘awakening the sense/ aesthetic sensibilities’ has the potential of making children authentic and original learners/creators.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But art education is also becoming top down and information oriented. Once I came across a school where children were being asked to copy paintings of Van Gogh. In fact the trend in art education in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> is along this line. Tests are conducted to see whether children are able to identify works of Monet, Paul klee .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Art is the only activity with in the school curriculum that has the potential for subverting the harm done by other subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Senses which is our doors to the outer world and also to the inner world is what needs to be addressed and that too in a manner that would enhance the inherent, natural, biological tendency in all human beings to be in beauty and to know.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">By 2000 I also began to work with children. Again following the principles of non interference (Other word is ‘teaching’) children began to create absolutely beautiful stuff. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sensing Nature; Knowing Nature</span></b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Sensing Nature; Knowing Nature is a workshop we have been conducting from 2003 at Aruvacode , Nilambur during the summer holidays – April and May. This year about 40 children of the age 5 to 15 from the village attended the workshop.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Each and every time children have proved that they are born genius and they need to be left alone to make sense of the world.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Senses connects not only to knowledge but also to the beauty of living. Sensitivity is in a way is matter of the awakening of the senses and feelings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
The fundamental issues we raise through this event is the 'nature of learning, biologically embedded aesthetic sense in children, role of the 'teacher', do nothing method etc. It looks like that we are already born with aesthetic sense. I think this is our connection to the world and the way we conduct our lives provided we leave that to the nature in all of us.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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This would require sensitivity, trust and indeed careful planning for the unplanned to happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Coclusions</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I draw the following conclusion from my experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Beauty is a biological aspect with our body/being and Art is a psychological construct.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Beauty is not something to be developed separately but to be present as part of our being, which gets awakened in the process of engaging with the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Beauty is the most fundamental of human existence. Beauty is what truly makes one authentic. Beauty is what binds us to the external world. Beauty is what creates culture-the architecture, the music, the artifacts, various dance forms and agriculture. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">De-colonization and de-conditioning process is essentially a process of recovering ones authentic sense of beauty and reclaiming ones senses.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">All art forms have a basis in other senses and aesthetic sense is developed in the process of aesthetic /part hand engagement with the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Rather than ‘teaching’ art what one should do is to create situations for awakening the aesthetic awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">7.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Children are born genius</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> – (Genuine) artistic/scientific/spiritual/holistic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">8.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Learn from them. </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> They can tell us how far we have moved from our original/ natural selves.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #cc0000; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">9.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Creativity happens in innocence and humility something we have lost in the process of getting ‘educated’.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 81pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial;">10.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Human beings are in some sense the most helpless and with enormous capacity for self deception...</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="western" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Every generation needs to relive, relearn, recreate and reinvent certain aspects of its cultural sensibilities by engaging with the reality around them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Contextually rooted aesthetic sense is what once created the diverse cultures around the globe.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">The main write up is from my personal experience of living with the rural tribal communities and from the documentation and research done to understand how children as well as non literate artisans learn.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Many philosophers, thinkers, scientists and teachers have helped me to understand these issues. Among them the prominent are as follows. Ivan Illich, John Holt, John Taylor ghetto, Maria Montessori, <span class="apple-style-span">Dr. Humberto Maturana (</span>the<span class="apple-style-span"> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Chilean</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Biology of Cognition)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
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