Design Showcase
Prof. MP Ranjan
India’s Design Guru
by
The Grandmaster
• The Grandmaster: MP Ranjan and his perspectives on Design
Left Image: MP Ranjan’s Keynote at ADI's Pune Design Festival 2015
Right Image: M P Ranjan with Chinese architect Liu Xiaodu and American designer Scott Stowell at the closure of the first edition of WDCD (photo Leo Veger)
“Never loose an opportunity to either learn or educate.”
- by Prof. M P Ranjan, used to share with his students at NID Ahmedabad
“Innovation for society has design sensibility as part of a three-legged stool where the other two are scientific temper and art ability. Unfortunately this critical input – design sensibility – is under-supported in our society today.”
- by Prof. M P Ranjan, WDCD (What Design Can Do?) conference, August 2015 [1]
“I think what we need to understand is that Design actually works with Values….Materail Values, Formal Values, Aesthetic Values integrating them into Form, Function, Producability…and so many other such values. They are individual values but when they get integrated, they become even more valuable”
- by Prof. M P Ranjan in his keynote for Pune Design Festival [PDF] 2015 that was unfortunately his last talk [34]
full talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NhMl8kzh2Q
“I would call for REALISM in addressing Rural and Urban poverty as the single most important challenge that faces Design Education today.”
- by Prof. M P Ranjan in: LEARNING GROUND M.P. Ranjan | Conversation with MP Ranjan, from the book Dekho. Based on interviews between 2011–12 [19]
“Knowledge is not created by expereince alone, but through the deep reflection on that experience. It is documentation and research scholarship that provide the base for such reflection.”
- by Prof. M P Ranjan in: LEARNING GROUND M.P. Ranjan | Conversation with MP Ranjan, from the book Dekho. Based on interviews between 2011–12 [19]
“The design journey starts in the mind and in the senses with the first perception of an interesting relationship and pattern that is triggered like the “stone in the pond” metaphor suggests. The ripples that are generated by the impact of the first sensations start a flow of excitement and this results in a dual process of exploration and inploration, an outward looking and pattern seeking behavior as well as an inward looking insight seeking behavior, both working in tandem. Exploration is much like that of an explorer wandering in an unknown territory and the search and research is done with a high degree of motivation seeking insights and nuggets of knowledge with all the curiosity and motivation that drives such a search for new knowledge.”
- by Prof. M P Ranjan in: DESIGN JOURNEY: STYLES AND MODES OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS IN DESIGN |
MPR blog: Design Concepts and Concerns Blogpost of October 16, 2007 [35]
“Critical discourse is essential if we are to make the invisible value of design visible to policy makers as well as stakeholders alike. Design is today entering the Universities here in India and the possibility of a new form of critical appraisal has become a reality. However design research divorced from practice can once again become a sterile debate and far removed from the rich learning that reflections on practice can bring to our understanding of design and its role in development and in addressing real needs of our society.”
- by Prof. M P Ranjan in: REFLECTIONS ON DESIGN PUBLISHING IN INDIA |
MPR blog: Design for India last Blogpost of June 5, 2015 [9]
