Design Resource
Lost Indian Festivals
Information Visualisation of Festivals celebrated by Women in India
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Ideation
Ideas were brainstormed to visualise the content.
Pooja Thali
Pooja Thali was a common element present in all festivals and could be used to visualise the pooja articles required for a festival. Fig 7 shows how the pooja thali could be represented across the different festivals. This would allow one to compare the similar and different articles required for the different festivals.
Fig 7. Pooja Thali
Pooja Rituals
Tithi
The dates for celebrating the festivals are derived from the lunar calendar from Drik Panchang (2021). Tithi (or when the festival is celebrated) could be represented by visualising the position of the sun, Earth and the moon. This visualization could be linear or circular (representative) as shown in Fig 8.
Fig 8. Tithi
Pooja Rituals
The Pooja Rituals could be visualised as a step-by-step process.
Icons could be used to visualise the sensory experiences and images could be used to visualise the actual objects involved.
Overall visualisation
The overall visualisation of each festival could be created using a similar layout which could help compare the different aspects such as preparation, duration, sensory experience, etc.