Today’s class was an interesting one. Our lecturer Ahmed Ansari asked us how many of us listened to Indian classical music, to which the class remained silent. He followed it up with a “why not” to ask us about our music preference and tastes. So, it got me thinking, what…

As a creative person, I sometimes find it hard to distinguish between the descriptors of what creative people do. There appear to be three distinct titles but I’m sure which one I fall into. To begin with, there’s the Artist, somebody who produces works like paintings or sculpture, or works…

Persons with disabilities, who comprise an estimated 15 per cent of the global population, are one of the largest minority groups in the world. The discussion this week was centered around design for various bodies. To be more specific, we discussed the work of Sara Hendren, a design researcher who…

Last semester in our interaction design class, our professor Amir Mirza introduced us to the term Affordances. James Gibson, an ecological psychologist coined the word affordance to mean “something that refers to both the environment and the animal… The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what…

The first week of school after months of quarantine and unproductively was a little overwhelming to say the least, and a class that was at 6 pm and ending at 9pm sounded very intimidating since I’ve never had those timings for any course at IVS before. …