Subconsciously Conscious
Conversations with thoughts, readings and happy accidents.
Prarambh
03-10-2020 Glenn Murcutt, in his acceptance speech for “The Pritzker Architecture Prize” in 2002 said: “I have always believed in the act of discovery rather than creativity. Any work that exists, or which has the potential to exist is related to discovery. We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers”. This quote resonates…
Thinking-Reading-Making 1
16-10-2020 It is especially important for me to write this down and to share my experiences of thinking-reading-making. I am a thinker but one that does not know how to streamline my thoughts. But now this has to change as I will be exploring various tools to have conversations with my thoughts, to express my…
Revolutionary Creativity, East and West: A Critique From Indigenous Psychology
16-10-2020 Academic Paper Review In the paper Louise Sundararajan and Maharaj K Raina argues upon the notion of revolutionary creativity as per the cross-cultural psychology and how Asians are considered deficient in it. It is analyzed that problem does not lie in non-western creativity but in the biased sampling of cross-cultural psychology and he aims…
Thinking-Reading-Making 2
23-10-2020 Our thoughts are formed of perceptions. Perceptions which have become stable with time, and we operate from those perceptions. But where and how does these perceptions get created? They are formed by our mind, mind having these various flows and connections, that is the reason even our perception keeps on flowing from one to…
Thinking-Reading-Making 3
30-10-2020 Ever thought how to pull out ideas from thoughts? Yes, you are right, using a thinking tool. One more from the never-ending list to choose from. This one is known as “Affinity Mapping” and is a convergent thinking tool. It is helpful in pulling out new ideas from the existing set of concerns. I…
Thinking-Reading-Making 4
06-11-2020 This week was quite different maybe because it was the last week for our first cycle, already been five weeks and lots of explorations and thinking. The approach towards thinking tool was different this time and I will present it here also in the same manner. It started with performing an action. We were…
Life: Human and more than Human
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 outside…
Crafted Blueprints 