Creative – THE Workshop

THE grass is greener on World Environment Day
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THE grass is greener on World Environment Day

2 Locations. 5 Mentors. 1 Day. All things green. 40 cardboard boxes were packed, stamped and ready to be reimagined. This June 6, World Environment Day, THE Workshop conceptualised a hands-on experience for two of Embassy group’s tech parks in the Bangalore in association with The Fuller Life. Big ups to them.

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Manyata Embassy Business park, Nagavara and Embassy Tech Village, Devarabisanahalli. Nice to know that the people there were celebrating a day of environmental awareness, and making.

Each box has in it some old newspapers, a couple of plastic bottles, plastic bags and old electrical wire.

The challenge: No glue, no stapler. 20 minutes to ideate and build a sustainable product or concept design representative of the day’s theme. using all the items in the kit, including the box itself. All this with just a pair of scissors, a paper cutter and their imagination.

Groups of 3 and 4 got together to get making. While some teams were swift to build out their ideas, others took things a level up, attempting more challenging builds making as many products as possible.

What they made? Plant holders, stationery holders, a couple of funky wearable concepts, mobile cases, bookshelves, windmill, and a compost kit. Happy to see what some productive thinking under trees could conjure.

Guess we need a lot more of them apple trees.

sKEw

Designuru : Rest and Recreate

In today’s hyperconnected world the lines between the virtual and real are blurred. What does rest and relaxation mean to a generation that is bombarded with 3D, VR and a digital exponential ? Where does rest end and recreation begin? THE sKEw is a kinesthetic experience: a metaphor for the digital evolution, the metallic old with the neon new, the pixelated digital with the distorted real. Rest. Recreation. Perspectives.

Juxtaposing the 2D graphics of our pixilated past with a 3 Dimensional space THE sKEw ‘highlights’ the transitions between the 2D and 3D visual spectrum –– creating an illusion of rest and an interesting piece of upcycled furniture to intsa-tweet 🙂

With a metal framework and saris as a visual graphic element THE sKEw places two pieces of furniture, a chair and a table along the footpath of St. Marks road.

While this may look like disjointed and strange, at the right angle (perspective)In a fast paced world, this installation offers people a pause. While they perceive this skewed set-up from the right perspective, it comes together as one unified piece.

Perspective is a Powerful Thing

Big, small, little, large, too young, too old, dark, fair, brown, black, loud, soft, smart, stupid, from here, from there, worships this, believes that, nobody, somebody, everybody. Think Happy Everyday.

Sometime last year we were invited to partner with theUnder25 Summit to be held early January this year. Founders Shreyans and Anto were open to ideas for an installation that echoed their ideology. Woopiee! Good time for us to work with a super-motivated and socially-active audience.

While mining for ideas, we realised that perspective was what one of the core takeaways from this summit.

We jogged through some surreal illusions before deciding on The Ames room: a perspective based optical illusion room, constructed with the walls, floor and roof at various acute angles. The sum effect creating an illusion where one person standing at one corner of the room seemed like a giant towering over another person standing at the opposite corner.

So we got our Hobbit boots on and summoned the white wizard. The build was simple enough, a week of cutting up plywood, metal sections and the painting repetitive patterns. Sometime around the end of our build we found out our venue was on the 7th Floor terrace of the World Trade Centre. Schematics shuffled, welds broken and we had a modular design in a couple of hours.

Friends and fairy folk stopped by around midnight to help us finish up. Post sunrise, we struggled for three hours to get a little perspective up to the 7th floor. Service elevator worries, a serpentine corridor to navigate that made the task Sisyphean. 10 am, the sun blazing on the northern terrace, our semi-fatigued motley crew all paint, grease conjured up the 12 x 8 illusion in wood, metal and rexine.

People lined up for a little perspective

People were curious. How did it work? What was inside ? Was there a show? Was there a message? A surprise? Selfies, videos, like like like, happy times. End of story…We were delighted that one message resonated with everyone there. Perspective, is indeed a powerful thing.