Author Archives: divyarajsinhrana

Facilitating change inside and outside. When I went to the Jakkur Lake this week, I experienced yet another dramatic internal change. I devised a participatory learning and action exercise at Jakkur Lake, motivated by the mother manual, with two other colleagues, about what the lake means to the visitor. The first change I noticed inContinue reading “Reflection 2- Week 2”

Paper 4: Shifting public values and what they mean for increasing democracy in wildlife management decisions Citation: Van Eeden, Lily M., Chris R. Dickman, Euan G. Ritchie, and Thomas M. Newsome. 2017. Shifting public values and what they mean for increasing democracy in wildlife management decisions. Biodiversity and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-017-1378-9. This paper discusses how societal viewsContinue reading “Literature Review 2- Week 2”

Paper 1: The Impact of Information on Attitudes toward Sustainable Wildlife Utilization and Management: A Survey of the Chinese Public Citation: Song, Zhifan, Qiang Wang, Zhen Miao, Kirsten Conrad, Wei Zhang, Xuehong Zhou, and Douglas C. MacMillan. 2021. The Impact of Information on Attitudes toward Sustainable Wildlife Utilization and Management: A Survey of the ChineseContinue reading “Literature Review 1- Week 2”

Facilitating change inside and outside. The overarching theme of this reflection of change within and without, I believe, is a process, a process that every designer should incorporate before making a decision or solving an issue. This method helps you to fully immerse yourself in the subject matter. Following our A1 in-class discussion, I recallContinue reading “Reflection 1- Week 2”

As I previously stated, there was a gap between me and nature, and I’m not sure when or how that occurred. But Srishti brought me back to this connection, reacquainting me with nature and reminding me that I am a part of it. This entire aspect was levelled up in my classroom this week, whenContinue reading “Reflection 3- Week 1”

What is the definition of a public space? What does it mean to have an open public space? What is the best way to create a public space? What are the difficulties that a public space faces? What constitutes the components of a public space? What is the best way to think about its users?Continue reading “Reflection 2- Week 1”

1. Soma Significance and the Activity of Meaning Reading through Bohm’s work, Soma Significance and the Activity of Meaning, presented a perspective that there is no distinction in the objective world between two reciprocal processes, human perception and cognition, the subtle and the manifest, the soma (physical) and its significance (mental). Such soma-significance, as wellContinue reading “Literature review 1- Week 1”

“Perception of a new meaning constitutes a creative act.” -Bohm I’d like to begin with a sentence by Bohm that has been stuck in my head since day one of the back to normal classes of my master’s program. My eagerness of returning to campus was high, and I was keen to learn more aboutContinue reading “Reflection 1- Week 1”

Merleau Ponty’s essay is a detailed comparison between Scientific and Artistic thinking processes. Scientific thinking, he explains lead to objectifying of things in general and gives up living in them. We distance ourselves from the world to conceptualize it which takes us away from the grounded understanding of being as “there is”, inside and outsideContinue reading “Life: Human and more than Human”