PAUL ARINDAM

MA GCD 2026

Category: Unit 1

  • Methods of Contextualising

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    Methods of Contextualising For the fifth brief, I chose the third approach, killing rhythms. And as part of a 3 person group, after an initial discussion, we chose to work with the concept of time and the perception of it. We critically questioned the representation of time in the form of a ‘standard 12 hour…

  • User Experience

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    User Experience Context Earlier this month, i got to be a part of a workshop at CSM, as part of our ‘signup workshops’. The one i chose for this unit was about an introduction to user experience. The workshop was led by Daniela Barbeira, who is a designer at transport for London (tfl). She is…

  • Methods of Iterating

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    Methods of Iterating First Draft (20th January 2025) I have chosen to learn the medium Augmented Reality for the ‘methods of iterating’ brief. AR is something I came across when it first gained popularity about 8-9 years back. I wanted to learn more about the medium and tools surrounding this concept. I decided to use…

  • Indexing archives

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    Indexing archives On our second studio brief on Societies, we learnt about indices and indexing. We did the activity in groups of 2 to 3. We worked with a previously chosen archive from the Bishopsgate archive. My chosen document was a publication called ‘The Lavender Letter’, it used to be a publication around the themes…

  • Quilt and sew

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    Quilt and sew I would like to highlight this activity we did on our second cross-years studio, with Cai, and had a great learning experience in the process. Cai showed us their quilts, which are absolutely beautiful and crafted with a lot of work. In this studio, we worked together in a group and made…

  • Cross years session 1

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    Cross years session 1 Clappabet For our first cross years with Rebecca and Cai, we were given a brief about ‘Alphabets as infrastructure’ which is exactly as it sounds. The day was divided into discussions about writing systems, how they work to create meaning, and how the alphabet is influenced by visual, cultural, and material…

  • Methods of Translating

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    Methods of Translating Rewriting For this brief, I chose two following readings from the list. I chose to rewrite two pages of Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author, 1977, following the writing style/ editorial layout of Eva Weinmayr, One Publishes to Find Comrades, 2014. I noticed that it was difficult for me to understand…

  • Methods of Cataloguing

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    Methods of Cataloguing Inventory I chose an excerpt from Sara Ahmed, Living a feminist life, 2017; Introduction: pp 5-7For my process, I wanted to understand how emphasis works in a text, how it relates to the context of the message and how it influences the understanding of what the author wants to say. The PDF…

  • Methods of Investigating

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    Methods of Investigating Laundry room My chosen site for this brief was the laundry room. I was influenced firstly by Agnès Varda, The Gleaners and I, 2000 and the concept of gleaning into mundane, everyday things. I was interested in her way of looking at the world and the everyday. So I chose the laundry…