WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.430 --> 00:00:09.040 Sanchari Mahapatra: Super. Thank you. 2 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:12.410 Sanchari Mahapatra: was it? Am I pronouncing your name right? 3 00:00:12.590 --> 00:00:16.340 Sanchari Mahapatra: I think it started with something called a. 4 00:00:17.310 --> 00:00:21.479 Sanchari Mahapatra: That student is helping you, Kim. I think they are the 5 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:27.010 Sanchari Mahapatra: A. Why, she's helping her the class right now. Come and say hello. Oh. 6 00:00:27.650 --> 00:00:37.350 Sanchari Mahapatra: she's saying, Hello! Hi! There she is! Hi! Ay, sorry, I replied. Your email, but a little late. Oh, I saw that. Thank you so much. 7 00:00:37.390 --> 00:00:38.480 You're welcome. 8 00:00:39.830 --> 00:00:44.290 Kimberly Marte: What, Kadoki. So I guess, Marshall, if you want to go ahead and get started 9 00:00:44.580 --> 00:00:46.740 Marshall Hamachi: terrific. We'll go ahead and get started then. 10 00:00:46.980 --> 00:01:01.369 Marshall Hamachi: So first of all, welcome to everybody who is joining us with Kimberly and her intro to automotive Cmf class, and we are very happy today to be able to share with you 11 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:07.100 Marshall Hamachi: a special guest, color, and material designer. Her name is Sanchari Mahapatra. 12 00:01:07.130 --> 00:01:17.950 Marshall Hamachi: and just to give you some background. My name is Marshall Hamachi, and I am the associate director of the color materials and Trans Exploration Lab at Art Center. 13 00:01:18.020 --> 00:01:19.369 Marshall Hamachi: and 14 00:01:19.660 --> 00:01:33.160 Marshall Hamachi: as I mentioned in the email that was sent out that Kimberly had originally invited Sanchar to talk, and we wanted to open up to the rest of the college. So, Kimberly, do you just want to give a short description of your class? 15 00:01:35.100 --> 00:01:40.569 Kimberly Marte: Sure. So this term I am teaching interim intro to automotive. Cmf. 16 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:52.090 Kimberly Marte: This gives everyone an opportunity to understand how Cmf: design affects the automotive industry, how we can also design within the automotive industry. 17 00:01:52.100 --> 00:02:06.169 Kimberly Marte: We're doing a heavy push with sustainability when we talk about Cmf at Art Center. So there is discussions around that to help you understand how you can apply color, material finishes, design textures and trend 18 00:02:06.350 --> 00:02:15.699 Kimberly Marte: regarding sustainability to your products. So this class, this term is automotive. Last semester I did teach product Cmf. 19 00:02:15.790 --> 00:02:21.279 Kimberly Marte: and we do have some other classes around that. And Christine is also here. She teaches materials, features. 20 00:02:21.690 --> 00:02:38.359 Marshall Hamachi: Hi, Christina! Hi! Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming. Thanks so much, Kimberly, and so let's go ahead, and i'm going to hand it off to Centari. What i'm asking for all of those who are attending online. If you have questions. 21 00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:46.460 Marshall Hamachi: please post them to the chat, and after Sanchari is done we will have a short Q. A. And we'll be able to address those questions then. 22 00:02:46.530 --> 00:02:47.240 Marshall Hamachi: Okay. 23 00:02:48.330 --> 00:02:50.550 Marshall Hamachi: So without further ado, Sanchari. 24 00:02:51.390 --> 00:02:52.830 Sanchari Mahapatra: Hello, everyone. 25 00:02:52.980 --> 00:03:00.299 Sanchari Mahapatra: first of all big. Thank you to all the students who came, and this is a 1 h schedule. So 26 00:03:00.380 --> 00:03:14.289 Sanchari Mahapatra: thank you for sacrificing your 1 h of sleep, or maybe Netflix or Youtube. I don't know. But yeah, I was. I've been in your shoes, so I know this 1 h can be very precious. 27 00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:16.879 Sanchari Mahapatra: and a big shout out to Kim 28 00:03:17.100 --> 00:03:34.449 Sanchari Mahapatra: Marshall and Kevin, who who contacted early on to make sure that we have everything in order, but especially for giving this platform to connect with all creative minds a bunch of you in a nice room. 29 00:03:34.460 --> 00:03:38.739 Sanchari Mahapatra: so it's my pleasure, and i'm very excited to share my journey 30 00:03:38.890 --> 00:03:56.009 Sanchari Mahapatra: for a lot of you. Since you're in automotive, a lot of my work may feel and appear softer, but it's not about talking about talking about a particular profession, but also just like looking at 31 00:03:57.170 --> 00:04:01.610 Sanchari Mahapatra: how design has played a very active voice in my life. 32 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:05.939 Sanchari Mahapatra: be it in India, where I come from, or here in the Us. 33 00:04:05.990 --> 00:04:06.980 Sanchari Mahapatra: So 34 00:04:07.810 --> 00:04:10.060 Sanchari Mahapatra: with that let me share my screen. 35 00:04:19.529 --> 00:04:35.230 Sanchari Mahapatra: So Marshall introduced me as a color material finished designer, a textile designer. Yes, and that by profession. But in my core i'm a cultural detective. I identify myself as a detective playing in the realms of culture 36 00:04:35.350 --> 00:04:48.550 Sanchari Mahapatra: growing up. I was a very big fan of this series, called X Files. We are the Mtv generation when the cable network, you know, erupted, and we were hooked to our Tvs. 37 00:04:48.570 --> 00:04:56.680 Sanchari Mahapatra: we still ran with remote controls, or even switches and siblings would fight again like who would have the you know Rains? 38 00:04:56.990 --> 00:05:02.540 Sanchari Mahapatra: So it was a big time Color Tvs were on in India at that time. 39 00:05:02.590 --> 00:05:21.119 Sanchari Mahapatra: so I was a big fan of X files, which was like a series where 2 very good looking, well cladded, sophisticated F. Vi. Agents were trying to solve paranormal activities like Ufo hitting the earth, and they were like hiding somewhere, and they were trying to 40 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:34.179 Sanchari Mahapatra: be these great detectives on our thing like what's going on. But unfortunately no aliens were visiting India at that time. So you know, I wanted to be a detective, and I just re focused on cultural things 41 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.490 Sanchari Mahapatra: by by cultural things I mean is like I'm just a curious person 42 00:05:39.850 --> 00:05:44.880 Sanchari Mahapatra: by nature. If i'm paid for my curiosity, I would be. It's probably very rich. 43 00:05:44.940 --> 00:05:50.900 Sanchari Mahapatra: but just like looking around, trying to make sense of things. 44 00:05:51.400 --> 00:06:03.629 Sanchari Mahapatra: solving pieces of puzzle together. And this kind of ability really helped me in my work. Later on, as a as a trend forecaster in my textile design, or even as a Cm. Of design. 45 00:06:03.700 --> 00:06:06.900 Sanchari Mahapatra: I am a maker I love exploring things. 46 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:09.580 Sanchari Mahapatra: and that's a little bit about 47 00:06:09.830 --> 00:06:10.760 Sanchari Mahapatra: me. 48 00:06:11.110 --> 00:06:12.350 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 49 00:06:12.370 --> 00:06:15.009 Sanchari Mahapatra: I don't know how to go to the next page. This thing is 50 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:18.060 Sanchari Mahapatra: hiding. 51 00:06:18.300 --> 00:06:19.470 Sanchari Mahapatra: Yeah, okay. 52 00:06:19.570 --> 00:06:21.519 Sanchari Mahapatra: Are you able to see my screen? 53 00:06:29.640 --> 00:06:32.220 Sanchari Mahapatra: Is everyone able to see. Okay. 54 00:06:33.200 --> 00:06:34.240 Ariel Brice: yes. 55 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:43.000 Sanchari Mahapatra: thank you. As a textile designer. I have worked in the handle and handicraft belt in India for a long time. 56 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:57.569 Sanchari Mahapatra: but not before having a fair share of my experience in the fashion design world. Of what could your from home furnishing, and later on as a as a designer creating seat covers for cars. 57 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:05.910 Sanchari Mahapatra: In fact, my last role before joining Nike was to design the seat for Volvo Rocks. 58 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.829 Sanchari Mahapatra: which is going to be launched very soon now. 59 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:15.200 Sanchari Mahapatra: And currently, i'm working in Nike as a material designer for footwear 60 00:07:16.350 --> 00:07:25.929 Sanchari Mahapatra: as a Cml designer. I have worked on projects that involve trend, forecasting, cutter color, design and development, material innovation in the soft 61 00:07:26.130 --> 00:07:34.889 Sanchari Mahapatra: space as well as hard space. By hard materials I mean metal, wood, carbon, fiber, and so forth and so on. 62 00:07:35.880 --> 00:07:42.470 Sanchari Mahapatra: So for today I gonna focus on like few projects handful of projects. 63 00:07:42.660 --> 00:07:54.929 Sanchari Mahapatra: But before I start talking about that, I have some steps that can give you a glimpse of my life in India, or the kind of things that still fascinate me, and the day 64 00:07:55.070 --> 00:07:58.000 influence my design decisions. 65 00:07:58.030 --> 00:07:59.379 Even now 66 00:08:00.330 --> 00:08:01.480 Sanchari Mahapatra: so 67 00:08:01.670 --> 00:08:09.609 Sanchari Mahapatra: very early on I'm. Just inside, looking at my mother's approach to life, and the way she 68 00:08:09.710 --> 00:08:18.310 Sanchari Mahapatra: handled limited resources or abundance of certain natural resources like water. I, 69 00:08:18.350 --> 00:08:27.029 Sanchari Mahapatra: looking back now, I feel like that was sustainability practiced in, you know, complete all some way. 70 00:08:27.090 --> 00:08:40.650 Sanchari Mahapatra: It was a way of life, it was not. We we didn't practice it in silo, or, in fact, we didn't even know the word sustainability. But to give you a example, what we have here in the 71 00:08:40.940 --> 00:08:54.019 Sanchari Mahapatra: What you see here. In the right is pieces of textile scraps put together by local tailors. These are scraps that are uneven. 72 00:08:54.070 --> 00:08:55.860 Sanchari Mahapatra: The materials are different. 73 00:08:55.960 --> 00:09:13.250 Sanchari Mahapatra: The prints and colors. They have no control over what kind of scraps come out from the mills, and they just simply switch together in fascinating ways to to to become quilt covers. I have used them with some clothes pins as my cotton in a 74 00:09:13.390 --> 00:09:14.990 Sanchari Mahapatra: in my hostile days. 75 00:09:15.110 --> 00:09:28.920 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I find that this is a very nice example of sustainable solutions. Very simple. It doesn't use a lot of energy, a lot of resources, but also gives employment to a huge community of people. 76 00:09:29.500 --> 00:09:31.650 Sanchari Mahapatra: The second is the banana lease. 77 00:09:31.710 --> 00:09:41.219 Sanchari Mahapatra: which acts as a plate here that can also be thrown, or I mean, just in this dec decomposes into the soil. 78 00:09:41.390 --> 00:09:51.539 Sanchari Mahapatra: And talking of sustainability, I I was talking to Marshall, and I felt like maybe I can share something that is 79 00:09:51.590 --> 00:10:01.149 Sanchari Mahapatra: very important for me. Coming from a different culture. I always think of materials, culture, you know, and how each of them influence 80 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:03.580 Sanchari Mahapatra: each other. 81 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:12.919 Sanchari Mahapatra: And as an example I have Ch. I. I drink. Chai a lot. What you see here is child, a day, but back home we call it as try simple chat. 82 00:10:13.770 --> 00:10:15.660 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I remember 83 00:10:16.260 --> 00:10:26.340 Sanchari Mahapatra: having the joy of having having chai from a clay pot instead of a Styrofoam glass or plastic month. 84 00:10:26.490 --> 00:10:28.860 because it gave 85 00:10:29.070 --> 00:10:30.580 Sanchari Mahapatra: something more 86 00:10:31.460 --> 00:10:33.040 Sanchari Mahapatra: that I may not 87 00:10:33.230 --> 00:10:35.649 Sanchari Mahapatra: find some other materials. 88 00:10:36.510 --> 00:10:39.279 Sanchari Mahapatra: The clay was 89 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:57.789 Sanchari Mahapatra: that was baked by a porter's family, by Potter's Families, in fact, was unglazed, meaning it was porous. As a result of this interaction material interactions. There was the earthy flavor that would get induced in the child. 90 00:10:58.100 --> 00:10:59.550 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 91 00:10:59.610 --> 00:11:01.839 Sanchari Mahapatra: it's very. It's not very 92 00:11:01.890 --> 00:11:03.350 Sanchari Mahapatra: start, please. 93 00:11:03.560 --> 00:11:06.489 Sanchari Mahapatra: Aromatic. It's a faint hem. 94 00:11:07.030 --> 00:11:10.269 Sanchari Mahapatra: and which I don't get in 95 00:11:10.500 --> 00:11:16.170 Sanchari Mahapatra: imitations of clay, because these what you see on the right are blazed pottery. 96 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:17.230 Sanchari Mahapatra: So the 97 00:11:17.380 --> 00:11:24.029 Sanchari Mahapatra: 4 city of the material is last year, however, aesthetically, they look like brutal systems, right? 98 00:11:24.410 --> 00:11:27.389 Sanchari Mahapatra: So these are 99 00:11:28.020 --> 00:11:33.530 Sanchari Mahapatra: the other sense that gets activated in this interaction of having a try. From this 100 00:11:33.650 --> 00:11:43.400 Sanchari Mahapatra: school learn, we call it, is the that there is an involvement of another sense and the sense of smell. 101 00:11:43.790 --> 00:11:48.390 Sanchari Mahapatra: the sense of taste, a little enhanced taste. 102 00:11:48.590 --> 00:12:00.290 Sanchari Mahapatra: and these for me, feel like a luxurious experience. It triggers nostalgia in my mind, and this is this is the power of material sculptures. I believe 103 00:12:01.050 --> 00:12:03.940 Sanchari Mahapatra: another unique example is Banana Lee. 104 00:12:04.070 --> 00:12:10.100 Sanchari Mahapatra: And now there are many leads the one lea that you see here. These are 105 00:12:10.260 --> 00:12:16.950 Sanchari Mahapatra: made, using machines with a very beautiful contrasting white stitch here. 106 00:12:17.280 --> 00:12:20.900 Sanchari Mahapatra: which is again extracted from a part of a leaf. 107 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.370 Sanchari Mahapatra: And these are beautiful, too. 108 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:32.359 Sanchari Mahapatra: What I really like about this experience, and I would have this kind of meal every time I would be invited by my South Indian friends. 109 00:12:34.130 --> 00:12:38.409 Sanchari Mahapatra: India is like a subcontinent. So the northeast, West, south. 110 00:12:38.590 --> 00:12:43.010 Sanchari Mahapatra: It almost is like they are all different countries. 111 00:12:43.050 --> 00:12:59.009 Sanchari Mahapatra: Culture is different food, clothing, languages, everything is different. So this is a typical meal of a South Indian family, and whenever I was called by my South Indian friends. I would be, you know, treated to a whole delicacy 112 00:12:59.340 --> 00:13:01.449 that is presented here. 113 00:13:01.660 --> 00:13:05.820 Sanchari Mahapatra: But the infusion of steamed rise over a banana leaf 114 00:13:06.040 --> 00:13:08.260 Sanchari Mahapatra: was a very. 115 00:13:08.860 --> 00:13:11.169 Sanchari Mahapatra: was a very. 116 00:13:11.550 --> 00:13:12.680 Sanchari Mahapatra: let's say. 117 00:13:14.250 --> 00:13:20.190 Sanchari Mahapatra: an intoxicating experience for me. It's like it stays with you even after your meal is done. 118 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:22.030 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 119 00:13:22.060 --> 00:13:32.000 Sanchari Mahapatra: it's a beautiful example of how a material can serve a purpose it can became. It can become a product that can contain other products. 120 00:13:32.260 --> 00:13:34.090 Sanchari Mahapatra: but can be sustainable. 121 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:39.060 Sanchari Mahapatra: At the same time it can itself become 122 00:13:39.300 --> 00:13:47.560 Sanchari Mahapatra: product of consumption. For example, the one that you, the the photograph that you see on the right is called upon it's beetle leave 123 00:13:47.580 --> 00:13:52.009 Sanchari Mahapatra: that is filled with different kind of yummy stuff. 124 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:53.060 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 125 00:13:53.220 --> 00:13:56.689 Sanchari Mahapatra: held together with a clove which acts like a PIN, 126 00:13:57.100 --> 00:14:01.419 Sanchari Mahapatra: and These are all mouth fresheners that you eat after the after food. 127 00:14:01.530 --> 00:14:09.729 Sanchari Mahapatra: And La has a, and it has many good Indian restaurants, and you can find Pond there, too, if any one of you is interested to try. 128 00:14:12.730 --> 00:14:17.870 Sanchari Mahapatra: Lastly, materials Culture, from the point of view of Saudi. 129 00:14:17.970 --> 00:14:20.759 Sanchari Mahapatra: so Sadi is a traditional way 130 00:14:20.880 --> 00:14:23.850 Sanchari Mahapatra: that even modern women were 131 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:25.989 Sanchari Mahapatra: to this date Even I will. 132 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:30.469 Sanchari Mahapatra: It's a 6 meter yard or yardages of fabric. 133 00:14:30.490 --> 00:14:32.389 Sanchari Mahapatra: and it is a drift 134 00:14:32.510 --> 00:14:47.810 Sanchari Mahapatra: without any stitch or button or a hook or zip, it is held around. It is draped around a woman's body in such a way that there are plates. You can walk comfortably, and it it takes the form of the human body as you walk through it. 135 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:52.509 Sanchari Mahapatra: It's very airy good for the kind of tropical weather that India has. 136 00:14:52.540 --> 00:14:53.980 Sanchari Mahapatra: Even men were 137 00:14:54.210 --> 00:14:56.890 this material, but as 138 00:14:57.100 --> 00:14:59.300 Sanchari Mahapatra: from it the Houthi pants are derived. 139 00:14:59.500 --> 00:15:01.730 Sanchari Mahapatra: and it's just user the bottom. 140 00:15:02.880 --> 00:15:07.019 Sanchari Mahapatra: But many, many, many years ago. 141 00:15:07.250 --> 00:15:10.750 Sanchari Mahapatra: when our mothers and grandmothers 142 00:15:11.340 --> 00:15:30.740 Sanchari Mahapatra: that generation they would repurpose the use size. Sometimes studies would become so soft, so delicate. After wash repeated, wash, and instead of throwing it. They would put layers of Saudis, maybe 6, 7 layers of Saudis and turn them into something called quilt. 143 00:15:31.010 --> 00:15:37.540 Sanchari Mahapatra: What you see on the right top corner is the traditional quilt from Bengal. 144 00:15:37.710 --> 00:15:42.439 Sanchari Mahapatra: That's my community, and it is heavily embroidered throughout. 145 00:15:42.510 --> 00:15:55.369 Sanchari Mahapatra: The embroidery. Here not only solves the decorative element, but also functional element. It holds the very frail pieces of cotton, 7 layers of fabric together. In fact, the choice of 146 00:15:55.810 --> 00:15:56.750 Sanchari Mahapatra: color 147 00:15:56.800 --> 00:16:01.600 Sanchari Mahapatra: that is on the top. Most of the layer is also very. 148 00:16:01.740 --> 00:16:07.380 Sanchari Mahapatra: It's a conscious choice to go light, so that all these embroidery is going to show. 149 00:16:07.460 --> 00:16:14.590 Sanchari Mahapatra: and the layers beneath could also show as a surprise elements. Sometimes 150 00:16:14.660 --> 00:16:16.189 Sanchari Mahapatra: the motives are 151 00:16:17.060 --> 00:16:18.180 Sanchari Mahapatra: drawn. 152 00:16:18.220 --> 00:16:22.739 Sanchari Mahapatra: not like by pensive, but it is drawn by needle meaning. 153 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:30.710 Sanchari Mahapatra: They are embroidered by the women of the household. In fact, these were like very luxurious pieces of dowry 154 00:16:30.780 --> 00:16:34.249 Sanchari Mahapatra: when dowry system was still prevalent in India. 155 00:16:34.420 --> 00:16:40.920 Sanchari Mahapatra: But you'll be surprised these takes years, and sometimes one quilt may have impressions 156 00:16:41.030 --> 00:16:45.190 Sanchari Mahapatra: done by the grandmother, the mother, the daughter, the daughter-in-law. 157 00:16:45.460 --> 00:16:50.250 Sanchari Mahapatra: So these are very special fabrics. A beautiful example of 158 00:16:50.290 --> 00:16:56.040 Sanchari Mahapatra: how sustainability can marry different time frames 159 00:16:56.150 --> 00:17:00.139 Sanchari Mahapatra: different generations, bind families together. 160 00:17:00.400 --> 00:17:04.900 Sanchari Mahapatra: be functional, but also beautiful at the same time. 161 00:17:06.349 --> 00:17:11.709 Sanchari Mahapatra: So these are some things that really have been very influential in my life, and 162 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:17.369 Sanchari Mahapatra: from time to time I see that whenever I design 163 00:17:17.569 --> 00:17:23.080 Sanchari Mahapatra: I designed with care that is, in the core of my design approach. 164 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:29.630 Sanchari Mahapatra: and it somehow my design strategies always end up with community involvement and materials. 165 00:17:30.590 --> 00:17:33.290 I graduated from 166 00:17:33.350 --> 00:17:39.439 Sanchari Mahapatra: a Design institute called National Institute of Design, which was based out of the Bauhaus principle. 167 00:17:39.620 --> 00:17:42.130 Sanchari Mahapatra: And interestingly, this was 168 00:17:42.380 --> 00:17:47.080 Sanchari Mahapatra: formed in 1961, based out of 169 00:17:47.330 --> 00:17:51.579 Sanchari Mahapatra: a report called India Report, that was put together by Charles and Ray in 170 00:17:51.810 --> 00:18:00.050 Sanchari Mahapatra: It's a very fascinating story, and I I know about this background only because I've walked on compiling the 50 years. So 171 00:18:00.660 --> 00:18:01.650 Sanchari Mahapatra: I 172 00:18:01.690 --> 00:18:04.300 Sanchari Mahapatra: design Academy in India. 173 00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:16.029 Sanchari Mahapatra: So now to give you a glimpse of what I was doing in India, and when I say like I was working as a designer in grassroots, in handleum and handicraft. 174 00:18:17.250 --> 00:18:24.060 Sanchari Mahapatra: hand, lum and handicraft is still a very big source of livelihood for millions of Indians 175 00:18:24.140 --> 00:18:27.040 Sanchari Mahapatra: after agriculture, and 176 00:18:27.110 --> 00:18:29.959 Sanchari Mahapatra: it's a part of the life. Sometimes 177 00:18:30.130 --> 00:18:41.550 Sanchari Mahapatra: the the tools that they use to make hand-based handmade products. They live in their living room, for example, this wooden room is a part of the living room. 178 00:18:41.660 --> 00:18:46.460 Sanchari Mahapatra: It's not separated. Worth in life is not separated in these interiors. 179 00:18:46.790 --> 00:18:57.949 Sanchari Mahapatra: Similarly, if you go to a potter's village, you will see that the potter, the we will sit very proud in the in the courtyard. In the very 180 00:18:58.010 --> 00:19:00.019 Sanchari Mahapatra: first step, As you enter there 181 00:19:00.190 --> 00:19:07.469 Sanchari Mahapatra: house you will be welcomed by the tools which gives livelihood to their family. So it's almost worshipped as God. 182 00:19:09.350 --> 00:19:11.569 Sanchari Mahapatra: So I worked with 183 00:19:11.650 --> 00:19:14.489 Sanchari Mahapatra: 21 different communities, of women 184 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:19.650 Sanchari Mahapatra: sometimes children. It's not forced labor. It's just children 185 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.509 Sanchari Mahapatra: help their families from time to time as a part of 186 00:19:23.790 --> 00:19:32.229 Sanchari Mahapatra: as a part of ongoing work. It's also. It also becomes play for them, but also a great source of education, not in the 187 00:19:32.600 --> 00:19:42.419 Sanchari Mahapatra: formal education sense of like going to school, but they also learn a lot by picking up and helping their mothers or fathers in these crafts. 188 00:19:43.110 --> 00:19:48.190 Sanchari Mahapatra: So I've worked with the 21 communities across 7 Indian States 189 00:19:48.340 --> 00:19:53.069 Sanchari Mahapatra: where my work was to help them look at their 190 00:19:53.120 --> 00:20:01.260 Sanchari Mahapatra: own crafts, but in a modern context, so that someone design designing a nice try cup in a village in India 191 00:20:01.410 --> 00:20:02.850 Sanchari Mahapatra: could 192 00:20:03.140 --> 00:20:21.389 Sanchari Mahapatra: to design something that is contemporary and something that can sit in a mobile in New York, you know, or could be bought by someone in La or Japan, for that matter, thereby enlarging their scope of market, and strengthening their source of livelihood 193 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:29.710 Sanchari Mahapatra: without them sacrificing this age, old craft, and taking up something that they are not skilled in, and ending up in poverty. 194 00:20:29.950 --> 00:20:37.710 Sanchari Mahapatra: So this was the prime intention of me jumping into this field of work. Because. 195 00:20:38.330 --> 00:20:42.190 Sanchari Mahapatra: yeah, I was traveling a lot. I was getting to see India a lot. 196 00:20:42.390 --> 00:20:48.289 Sanchari Mahapatra: but also learning a different world from my 197 00:20:48.710 --> 00:20:52.020 also learning the way they looked at design 198 00:20:52.300 --> 00:20:54.680 Sanchari Mahapatra: and colors and materials 199 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:56.260 Sanchari Mahapatra: and processes. 200 00:20:56.320 --> 00:20:57.710 Sanchari Mahapatra: So typical 201 00:20:57.780 --> 00:21:02.960 Sanchari Mahapatra: work would begin by like. Go today's go to those surveys selecting 202 00:21:03.190 --> 00:21:09.329 Sanchari Mahapatra: what candidates can be part of a design, training or design workshop. Here you see the ladies 203 00:21:09.370 --> 00:21:20.050 Sanchari Mahapatra: doing some color composition work for a range of stoles, but her child is also wrapped up with her. You know this is how children also start learning 204 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:21.789 Sanchari Mahapatra: in the whole process. 205 00:21:21.860 --> 00:21:26.720 Sanchari Mahapatra: And these kind of design development programs or training would 206 00:21:26.760 --> 00:21:41.869 Sanchari Mahapatra: last anywhere from 15 days to one year. And i'll be like staying with them, living with them, dressing up as them, you know, because I didn't know any of those languages, even though i'm from India. We didn't speak a common Indian language 207 00:21:43.530 --> 00:21:48.350 Sanchari Mahapatra: to give you an example. Sometimes, if I needed hot chine a cold morning. 208 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.979 Sanchari Mahapatra: I would sketch a cup of tea 209 00:21:51.630 --> 00:21:52.550 Sanchari Mahapatra: to them. 210 00:21:53.090 --> 00:22:00.480 Sanchari Mahapatra: and then add a little steam on top of the cup to show that, hey? I need a hot cup of tea instead of, you know, cold. 211 00:22:02.080 --> 00:22:09.649 Sanchari Mahapatra: And finally we will do product diversification to see what our other products that they can make. 212 00:22:09.760 --> 00:22:13.229 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I use their existing skills 213 00:22:15.550 --> 00:22:21.420 Sanchari Mahapatra: to give you a just a a glimpse. This is a tribal village. 214 00:22:21.500 --> 00:22:28.340 Sanchari Mahapatra: The houses are thatched roof, but very, very stable and very weather appropriate. 215 00:22:28.550 --> 00:22:32.530 Sanchari Mahapatra: These are a bunch of women. I'm sorry the photographs are so small. 216 00:22:32.660 --> 00:22:36.240 Sanchari Mahapatra: This is the traditional shawl which was 217 00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:49.160 Sanchari Mahapatra: taken as an inspiration, and then we made a collection of stores like this, just taking away a lot of visual clues, and just retaining only those clues that can 218 00:22:49.370 --> 00:22:55.299 Sanchari Mahapatra: speak, that it's from the village, and it is not made in a textile mail, so that 219 00:22:55.320 --> 00:22:59.549 Sanchari Mahapatra: if a buyer likes it, they they can get the order directly 220 00:22:59.690 --> 00:23:03.300 Sanchari Mahapatra: to the village instead of any other company. You know 221 00:23:03.670 --> 00:23:10.240 Sanchari Mahapatra: you me demonstrating how we could do some material exploration directly on the loom 222 00:23:10.490 --> 00:23:12.699 Sanchari Mahapatra: with other 2 women weavers. 223 00:23:14.170 --> 00:23:17.270 Sanchari Mahapatra: And yeah, some glimpses from the training program. 224 00:23:17.750 --> 00:23:21.570 Sanchari Mahapatra: But these training programs would involve 225 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:23.500 Sanchari Mahapatra: color competition. 226 00:23:23.750 --> 00:23:30.870 Sanchari Mahapatra: I would encourage them to source locally source materials like cotton and wool, because a lot of them had 227 00:23:30.910 --> 00:23:32.639 Sanchari Mahapatra: started working with 228 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:38.950 Sanchari Mahapatra: synthetic equivalent of one which is Acrylicians. 229 00:23:39.100 --> 00:23:47.099 Sanchari Mahapatra: and also encourage them to look around their house and find what are the grown plants 230 00:23:47.150 --> 00:23:55.880 Sanchari Mahapatra: which can be used as source of dial. So we ended up using a child as a dye color. 231 00:23:56.100 --> 00:24:02.780 Sanchari Mahapatra: and the stole that you see here on the right is basically a Marino woman and woven, stole 232 00:24:03.060 --> 00:24:05.530 dipped in chai color. 233 00:24:06.570 --> 00:24:08.249 Sanchari Mahapatra: original trial. 234 00:24:08.470 --> 00:24:13.649 Sanchari Mahapatra: and what you see here in the curtains are hand block printed 235 00:24:13.910 --> 00:24:20.950 Sanchari Mahapatra: by a community or block printers using rusted iron and jaggeries to achieve this 236 00:24:20.970 --> 00:24:27.540 Sanchari Mahapatra: natural color. Of course, India is rich with indigo, so there's there's a lot going on in indigo 237 00:24:27.590 --> 00:24:29.120 Sanchari Mahapatra: in certain pockets. 238 00:24:31.630 --> 00:24:43.510 Sanchari Mahapatra: This is one collection. I would like to show it's called hide and seek. We were inspired by the natural hide and seek of light throughout day, evening. 239 00:24:43.740 --> 00:24:46.840 Sanchari Mahapatra: and one prime thing I always 240 00:24:46.990 --> 00:24:53.470 Sanchari Mahapatra: wanted to keep in focus while doing these workshops and training programs was that I should 241 00:24:53.490 --> 00:24:59.819 Sanchari Mahapatra: create a platform where everyone involved should feel the 242 00:25:00.890 --> 00:25:02.600 Sanchari Mahapatra: should feel empowered 243 00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:06.969 Sanchari Mahapatra: that they can be involved with the kind of 244 00:25:07.280 --> 00:25:15.299 Sanchari Mahapatra: things they were doing. For example, if it was embroidery, the kind of approach we took for this 245 00:25:15.320 --> 00:25:23.500 Sanchari Mahapatra: embroidery was that a very simple stitch, like running stitch could appear and disappear at certain places. 246 00:25:23.950 --> 00:25:24.970 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 247 00:25:25.130 --> 00:25:36.980 Sanchari Mahapatra: every embroider would do it differently, and we ended up with a collection of stoles where no 2 pieces were alike, and that was the unique selling point For that collection 248 00:25:37.860 --> 00:25:41.670 Sanchari Mahapatra: We have, we applied a similar approach to different 249 00:25:42.070 --> 00:25:43.680 Sanchari Mahapatra: techniques. Also 250 00:25:44.210 --> 00:25:48.890 Sanchari Mahapatra: these are some examples. Here there are layers of fabric 251 00:25:49.010 --> 00:25:51.230 Sanchari Mahapatra: which is 252 00:25:51.780 --> 00:25:53.460 Sanchari Mahapatra: printed fabric. 253 00:25:53.700 --> 00:26:00.580 Sanchari Mahapatra: and they have cut open at certain point. So the flowers appear, and they disappear behind the 254 00:26:00.840 --> 00:26:04.250 Sanchari Mahapatra: running stitch behind the lines in some places. 255 00:26:04.520 --> 00:26:11.180 Sanchari Mahapatra: so it's fun. It's also gives the freedom to the doer 256 00:26:11.290 --> 00:26:28.520 Sanchari Mahapatra: to do as they please, to understand balance and composition and harmony in their canvas, it becomes like painting for them, instead of turning them into laborers or workers say, hey, i'm a designer. I've come. Fill up the space with these colors that I tell you, you know 257 00:26:30.070 --> 00:26:35.409 Sanchari Mahapatra: that's not. That's not the dynamic I was looking for, and this was much more fun. 258 00:26:36.250 --> 00:26:38.010 Sanchari Mahapatra: We applied the same 259 00:26:38.150 --> 00:26:40.820 Sanchari Mahapatra: concept of hide and seek. In we. 260 00:26:41.270 --> 00:26:44.370 Sanchari Mahapatra: and weaving is a technique where 261 00:26:45.030 --> 00:26:49.729 Sanchari Mahapatra: 2 threads interlock a 2 sets of threads, interlock. 262 00:26:50.260 --> 00:26:52.010 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 263 00:26:52.180 --> 00:26:56.479 Sanchari Mahapatra: fabric is created by that interlocking process. 264 00:26:56.850 --> 00:27:05.400 Sanchari Mahapatra: So in this case we had the freedom to do something at the yawn stage where the fabric is still not produced. 265 00:27:05.540 --> 00:27:09.489 Sanchari Mahapatra: You have a set of yawns on a machine 266 00:27:09.760 --> 00:27:13.229 Sanchari Mahapatra: which, when walked on, can create a surface. 267 00:27:13.310 --> 00:27:18.740 Sanchari Mahapatra: So we introduced the hide and seek concept by involving dying 268 00:27:18.860 --> 00:27:23.280 Sanchari Mahapatra: before leaving, so that if you see this little image here. 269 00:27:23.340 --> 00:27:31.760 Sanchari Mahapatra: the line appears and disappears at certain point, and that play keeps on happening in the entire surface of the scarf. 270 00:27:31.900 --> 00:27:33.780 Sanchari Mahapatra: and this is called Ty Die. 271 00:27:38.280 --> 00:27:42.720 Sanchari Mahapatra: So I just want to see if anyone has any 272 00:27:42.740 --> 00:27:45.079 Sanchari Mahapatra: questions to ask, or if i'm just 273 00:27:45.420 --> 00:27:46.910 Sanchari Mahapatra: talking a lot 274 00:27:47.360 --> 00:27:49.839 Sanchari Mahapatra: before I move on to the second project. 275 00:27:52.600 --> 00:27:55.280 Sanchari Mahapatra: or should we keep the question answers to the last. 276 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:02.419 Kimberly Marte: Yeah, I would suggest. And just a time note. We're at the half an hour, mark, and it looks like you have a good amount of slides left. 277 00:28:02.470 --> 00:28:05.579 Sanchari Mahapatra: Oh, okay, I think i'm sorry so much. 278 00:28:06.210 --> 00:28:15.939 Sanchari Mahapatra: In that case. Let me just run through the slides and then pause and talk about it. So anyone's interested to know anything more about this. 279 00:28:15.970 --> 00:28:24.310 Sanchari Mahapatra: This was a project on Cardi and Kadi is a special fabric, because it's not only hand woven, but hands fun also. 280 00:28:24.670 --> 00:28:40.759 Sanchari Mahapatra: and Gandhi used it as a very nice message during the Indian freedom struggle against the British, where he encouraged every household to make their own fabric PIN their own yarn and make their own fabric. 281 00:28:40.770 --> 00:28:54.570 Sanchari Mahapatra: It was a very non-violent way of introducing the concept of freedom, enabling individuals to be self dependent, and also reducing the dependency on mill based product from Britain. 282 00:28:54.700 --> 00:29:05.689 Sanchari Mahapatra: This is a very special fabric, and a lot of shops were struggling with left over, since what to do. They came in different shapes, different materials, different colors. 283 00:29:06.020 --> 00:29:07.539 So 284 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:14.149 Sanchari Mahapatra: this is a simple concept where, similar to looking colored fabrics were bunched together. 285 00:29:14.790 --> 00:29:16.999 Sanchari Mahapatra: They were cut in thin strips 286 00:29:17.020 --> 00:29:22.910 Sanchari Mahapatra: and stitch together to make a new material, as you can see here on the left. 287 00:29:23.330 --> 00:29:30.930 Sanchari Mahapatra: with a very simple technique of interlocking with a contrast color, and that that ways you have a new material to play with. 288 00:29:31.030 --> 00:29:35.810 Sanchari Mahapatra: Either have it stitched all throughout it, just like in the cushion covers. 289 00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:39.909 Sanchari Mahapatra: Make a rug or just have it around the border, you know. 290 00:29:41.360 --> 00:29:54.870 Sanchari Mahapatra: Yeah, and there are other concepts like this: One is inspired by the marigold flower seller here, where marigold flowers are trunk on top of each other. Similar approach was applied to fabrics 291 00:29:55.010 --> 00:29:56.930 Sanchari Mahapatra: where they were stitched. 292 00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:04.099 Sanchari Mahapatra: and a new material was formed like a ribbon like structure, and they were stitched to form a product like cushion 293 00:30:07.500 --> 00:30:12.550 Sanchari Mahapatra: and some other. I will not go into the details. We are running out of time. 294 00:30:12.850 --> 00:30:21.680 Sanchari Mahapatra: and after 8 years of working in India, and I decided to move to the Us. To pursue my higher education. 295 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:28.719 Sanchari Mahapatra: Ccs. At that time college for creative studies had just launched the inaugural program of color and materials design. 296 00:30:28.890 --> 00:30:37.630 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I was part of the inaugural program. After graduating from Ccs, I worked in the automotive space for a long time. 297 00:30:37.670 --> 00:30:43.689 Sanchari Mahapatra: This is one project that I assisted a senior designer in Honda to work on the 298 00:30:43.770 --> 00:30:47.090 Sanchari Mahapatra: exterior body color for the accurate typers. 299 00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:58.350 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I think this is a snapshot of the thinking behind it the benchmarking like, If you're talking of blue, Why, Blue. 300 00:30:58.460 --> 00:31:01.749 Sanchari Mahapatra: what space of blue are we talking of. 301 00:31:02.150 --> 00:31:04.989 Sanchari Mahapatra: and the flop and the highlight? 302 00:31:07.760 --> 00:31:14.699 Sanchari Mahapatra: And lastly, this is materials after life. I don't know Marshall. Should I talk about it today, or just 303 00:31:14.970 --> 00:31:16.630 Marshall Hamachi: please go ahead. Go ahead. 304 00:31:16.690 --> 00:31:19.559 Sanchari Mahapatra: This this will take a long time, though, but 305 00:31:19.760 --> 00:31:22.130 Marshall Hamachi: perhaps perhaps a summary. Then. 306 00:31:22.350 --> 00:31:24.260 Sanchari Mahapatra: Yeah, basically. 307 00:31:25.060 --> 00:31:30.390 Sanchari Mahapatra: if you see this as a project. It's a circular design related project. 308 00:31:30.800 --> 00:31:36.429 Sanchari Mahapatra: but in a sense it just started from. This was done in 2,015, 309 00:31:36.560 --> 00:31:38.289 Sanchari Mahapatra: as the studio project. 310 00:31:38.600 --> 00:31:44.220 Sanchari Mahapatra: which then I took forward in my thesis as a year long project. But 311 00:31:44.280 --> 00:31:46.520 Sanchari Mahapatra: the scope of this project just went 312 00:31:46.540 --> 00:31:48.410 Sanchari Mahapatra: on and growing. 313 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:51.279 Sanchari Mahapatra: which I really like, that it was so organic. 314 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.430 Basically I i'm raised as a Hindu. 315 00:31:54.600 --> 00:31:57.680 Sanchari Mahapatra: and we believed in the concept of rebirth 316 00:31:58.110 --> 00:32:08.280 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I always used to look around things non-living, so-called, non-living objects around me, and feel like, if do they have an afterlife or not 317 00:32:08.410 --> 00:32:12.490 Sanchari Mahapatra: if they get reborn next life, what will they be 318 00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:14.310 Sanchari Mahapatra: and this is a 319 00:32:15.630 --> 00:32:26.899 Sanchari Mahapatra: This is this is something that is born out of the leather industry the seat covers, you know. These are the remains of the leather punches that you see here as a he. 320 00:32:27.360 --> 00:32:30.530 Sanchari Mahapatra: and they are thrown away after processing. 321 00:32:30.980 --> 00:32:32.070 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 322 00:32:32.130 --> 00:32:35.359 Sanchari Mahapatra: they reminded me of a food that I really like to eat. 323 00:32:35.560 --> 00:32:37.070 Sanchari Mahapatra: It's possible 324 00:32:37.190 --> 00:32:38.610 Sanchari Mahapatra: they are poppy seed 325 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:41.029 Sanchari Mahapatra: born from this beautiful flower. 326 00:32:41.630 --> 00:32:46.700 Sanchari Mahapatra: These poppy seeds are like a size, a condiment, and 327 00:32:47.260 --> 00:32:51.750 Sanchari Mahapatra: they are mixed with potatoes. And oh, yeah, it's really delicious. 328 00:32:51.940 --> 00:32:53.920 Sanchari Mahapatra: It also gives you a little kick. 329 00:32:54.390 --> 00:33:02.039 Sanchari Mahapatra: So I was immediately nostalgic. I started thinking of my mom and home, and I was like, okay, You know what 330 00:33:02.260 --> 00:33:09.460 Sanchari Mahapatra: this be a very beautiful leather, just because it's granular, and it is so small in scale 331 00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:20.410 Sanchari Mahapatra: it goes through the whole gestation, birth, life and whatnot, and then death, and then there is no life. So I really wanted to explore this, and 332 00:33:22.350 --> 00:33:32.479 Sanchari Mahapatra: my first introduction to American society also happened. Through this I did not know the name of Elmer's glue like nothing. There was no reference point for me. I was still 333 00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:37.309 Sanchari Mahapatra: calling objects with my Indian reference point. 334 00:33:37.420 --> 00:33:48.829 Sanchari Mahapatra: So this was an introduction I I would go to hardware stores and just ask them like i'm helpless. I don't know which glue to buy. I have a student budget. I don't even know what to buy. What will. 335 00:33:48.900 --> 00:33:52.220 Sanchari Mahapatra: if I apply this? What will happen? I have no idea. So I 336 00:33:52.260 --> 00:33:56.129 Sanchari Mahapatra: over time what happened. My dormitory became like a laboratory 337 00:33:56.180 --> 00:34:02.369 Sanchari Mahapatra: lot of fiasco's. I'm. I'm glad that I did not put it on fire. But this is 338 00:34:02.510 --> 00:34:08.569 Sanchari Mahapatra: first program of color materials in Ces, so we also did not have the right kind of resources to play with. 339 00:34:08.670 --> 00:34:13.510 Sanchari Mahapatra: but a lot of experimentation, and what resulted was a set of 340 00:34:13.530 --> 00:34:15.389 Sanchari Mahapatra: new materials, which were. 341 00:34:15.790 --> 00:34:22.760 Sanchari Mahapatra: which appears to have different properties. These were some hard and brittle, some translucent, some very soft. 342 00:34:23.100 --> 00:34:31.859 Sanchari Mahapatra: and so they were almost like family, you know, like my family, everyone has a different personality. Some are stubborn, some are very 343 00:34:31.889 --> 00:34:35.190 Sanchari Mahapatra: open minded. So these materials also acted like that. 344 00:34:37.170 --> 00:34:39.540 Sanchari Mahapatra: and it's slowly. 345 00:34:39.880 --> 00:34:44.290 Sanchari Mahapatra: you know, because of the properties you can see they have different affordances. 346 00:34:45.070 --> 00:34:47.030 different applications. 347 00:34:47.130 --> 00:34:50.329 Sanchari Mahapatra: and the studio project ended like that. 348 00:34:53.610 --> 00:35:00.389 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I found it. It's relevance once again, when I did my thesis, which was on 349 00:35:01.120 --> 00:35:05.520 Sanchari Mahapatra: enabling underprivileged children to play well. 350 00:35:05.980 --> 00:35:12.189 Sanchari Mahapatra: and these are Indians, Indian children, and their favorite sport is 351 00:35:12.250 --> 00:35:13.209 Sanchari Mahapatra: cricket. 352 00:35:13.660 --> 00:35:15.319 Sanchari Mahapatra: and this is 353 00:35:16.030 --> 00:35:21.270 Sanchari Mahapatra: this is a slide where you can see the difference between halves and have not. There's a start difference. 354 00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:27.169 Sanchari Mahapatra: and i'm no specialist of creating bats and balls. 355 00:35:27.680 --> 00:35:30.150 Sanchari Mahapatra: But this project was very, very. 356 00:35:30.750 --> 00:35:35.069 Sanchari Mahapatra: very close to my heart. I have grown up with children like that. 357 00:35:35.260 --> 00:35:42.219 Sanchari Mahapatra: and to see a certain section of society not having the right to even play its brutals. 358 00:35:42.530 --> 00:35:43.700 Sanchari Mahapatra: so 359 00:35:44.930 --> 00:35:45.750 that 360 00:35:46.150 --> 00:35:51.529 Sanchari Mahapatra: I think I will. I will go into depths later on. I will just click through the pages, but 361 00:35:51.670 --> 00:35:53.910 Sanchari Mahapatra: show you how it 362 00:35:54.520 --> 00:35:55.140 Sanchari Mahapatra: hmm 363 00:35:56.330 --> 00:36:03.179 Sanchari Mahapatra: grew into a very big project where not only colors were involved, but also materials. 364 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:08.379 Sanchari Mahapatra: You get into the lives of the children, understand their personas. 365 00:36:08.530 --> 00:36:11.189 Sanchari Mahapatra: A lot of research, talking to 366 00:36:11.350 --> 00:36:14.630 Sanchari Mahapatra: coaches, sports, journalists, manufacturers 367 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.769 Sanchari Mahapatra: investigating, cutting open the 368 00:36:18.020 --> 00:36:24.620 Sanchari Mahapatra: that and balls to understand what they're made of, and then tying it back to my 369 00:36:24.770 --> 00:36:28.760 Sanchari Mahapatra: leather work, You know that I've done in studio somehow. 370 00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:33.930 Sanchari Mahapatra: The material that I made started bouncing one day, and I realized 371 00:36:34.200 --> 00:36:36.290 I went back to 372 00:36:36.610 --> 00:36:44.650 Sanchari Mahapatra: Google Scholar, and I realized what I had mixed. Why, I had mixed what is the ratio and how it turned into a ball. 373 00:36:45.060 --> 00:36:54.259 Sanchari Mahapatra: and ultimately this was presented as a concept where children can make their own bets and balls, using natural resources. 374 00:36:54.600 --> 00:37:03.359 Sanchari Mahapatra: using found objects in their vicinity, and learn and learn from their failures, learn from their successes 375 00:37:03.570 --> 00:37:08.260 Sanchari Mahapatra: pretty early on it's almost very educational, but to also play like. 376 00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:12.779 Sanchari Mahapatra: and I tested the bats and balls if I failed miserably a lot of times 377 00:37:13.070 --> 00:37:14.410 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 378 00:37:15.240 --> 00:37:17.479 Sanchari Mahapatra: ended up with a range of 379 00:37:17.560 --> 00:37:19.869 Sanchari Mahapatra: bioplastics in the process. 380 00:37:20.270 --> 00:37:22.000 Sanchari Mahapatra: And 381 00:37:22.330 --> 00:37:23.040 Sanchari Mahapatra: yeah. 382 00:37:24.230 --> 00:37:25.760 Sanchari Mahapatra: let's make and play. 383 00:37:26.450 --> 00:37:28.629 Sanchari Mahapatra: Thank you. I'll open up the 384 00:37:33.590 --> 00:37:34.929 Sanchari Mahapatra: Thank you, Christine. 385 00:37:36.350 --> 00:37:37.799 Marshall Hamachi: Thank you, Centari. 386 00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:46.989 Marshall Hamachi: So yes, let's open it. Now. Does anyone have any questions? You can either post it to the chat or just go ahead and and share it directly from Zoom. 387 00:37:58.050 --> 00:38:02.360 Sanchari Mahapatra: Is everyone too overwhelmed? 388 00:38:02.820 --> 00:38:08.070 Sanchari Mahapatra: Perhaps they were expecting more automotive stuff, but I cannot show them yet. 389 00:38:08.470 --> 00:38:11.970 Kimberly Marte: We're all side to nda's. 390 00:38:12.070 --> 00:38:21.460 Marshall Hamachi: Well, I think one thing I wanted to comment on Sanchari outside of saying thank you so much for sharing your work is 391 00:38:21.900 --> 00:38:38.759 Marshall Hamachi: a different kind of view on sustainability. I know that within the industrial design programs we are investing a lot of energy trying to seek and find sustainable solutions. And yet oftentimes we don't look at what's around us. 392 00:38:38.770 --> 00:38:48.459 Marshall Hamachi: and what we can, and draw from things that are not necessarily manufactured, you know, for their own sake. So I appreciated so much of the foundations of your 393 00:38:48.500 --> 00:38:58.039 Marshall Hamachi: story in your early part of your life, and I think that all of us could draw from that kind of resource to change our thinking about what's possible. 394 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:05.599 Sanchari Mahapatra: Well, thank you. I couldn't have used those many words, but it sounds very poetic. Thank you. 395 00:39:05.740 --> 00:39:13.390 Sanchari Mahapatra: I think I have a fascination towards things that are unloved or discarded, and even as a child I would 396 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:18.090 Sanchari Mahapatra: gravitate towards those things and try to make something useful. 397 00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:23.469 Kimberly Marte: You having said that we have a question in here? 398 00:39:23.860 --> 00:39:29.210 Kimberly Marte: Good! Hi! I'm! I am on the ta of it, and 399 00:39:29.250 --> 00:39:38.479 Kimberly Marte: just quick curiosity that I saw. Your All the works are really oriented with the curture base 400 00:39:38.740 --> 00:39:45.949 Kimberly Marte: before the car design. So what was the huge. What was the biggest change into 401 00:39:46.050 --> 00:39:51.720 Kimberly Marte: that, like the cultural Cmf into like the car? 402 00:39:52.190 --> 00:39:52.970 Yeah. 403 00:39:53.090 --> 00:39:56.769 Sanchari Mahapatra: Oh, wow, that's a loaded question. 404 00:39:57.040 --> 00:40:02.600 Sanchari Mahapatra: Yeah, I think 405 00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:15.059 Sanchari Mahapatra: what you saw before I showed the textile work that I was doing in the villages. But before coming to the Us. I was also working as a Cm. Of designer in the car industry in India. 406 00:40:15.160 --> 00:40:17.589 Sanchari Mahapatra: in a in a place called Tata Motors. 407 00:40:17.810 --> 00:40:19.919 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 408 00:40:20.430 --> 00:40:32.500 Sanchari Mahapatra: the big difference was to tone it down. You know a lot of cultural influences. We still took a lot of cultural influences because we were selling cars that are made in India for India. 409 00:40:32.680 --> 00:40:34.500 Sanchari Mahapatra: So 410 00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:44.890 Sanchari Mahapatra: customer research consumer research made us understand that people still value some of the things, and they would like to see it in their environment, beat a card or a house 411 00:40:45.070 --> 00:40:47.219 Sanchari Mahapatra: but similar to the West. 412 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:59.500 Sanchari Mahapatra: The way we would decorate a house we wouldn't decorate the same way for car interiors. We would tone it down, Use some safer colors or neutrals that can go with different personalities. 413 00:40:59.750 --> 00:41:03.980 Sanchari Mahapatra: And then so that was how I approached it in India. 414 00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:10.119 Sanchari Mahapatra: in the Us. I began with the question like where there's no color. Why, there is no cushia seeds. 415 00:41:10.520 --> 00:41:18.879 Sanchari Mahapatra: Interestingly, that was my first question to the Cmf global leader in GM. Where I was in turning. 416 00:41:18.930 --> 00:41:20.459 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 417 00:41:21.240 --> 00:41:28.160 Sanchari Mahapatra: I think it was just coming from the point of view of a very different world, which was very colorful. 418 00:41:28.390 --> 00:41:35.129 Sanchari Mahapatra: And slowly, as I got induced to this I realized why there are certain decisions 419 00:41:35.160 --> 00:41:42.199 Sanchari Mahapatra: Why, it is important to choose certain colors because they need to be production friendly. Also 420 00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:46.610 Sanchari Mahapatra: they have to be efficient, and they have to be maintained for an 421 00:41:46.790 --> 00:41:57.620 Sanchari Mahapatra: lot number of years as compared to a stole or a cushion or a foot. Where you know, this lifespan also plays a huge role. The scale of things also plays a huge role. 422 00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:58.640 Sanchari Mahapatra: so 423 00:41:58.700 --> 00:42:04.630 Sanchari Mahapatra: I would still derive inspiration from a lot of my culture back home. 424 00:42:04.670 --> 00:42:07.630 but we contextualize it. 425 00:42:07.650 --> 00:42:12.249 As for the needs of the consumer, always the consumer is my hero. 426 00:42:12.420 --> 00:42:15.189 Sanchari Mahapatra: and if they need certain things, I will 427 00:42:15.610 --> 00:42:18.200 Sanchari Mahapatra: amplify that beta color 428 00:42:18.970 --> 00:42:20.899 Sanchari Mahapatra: or graphic 429 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:25.440 Sanchari Mahapatra: graphic input, or if they don't want, I will 430 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:28.870 Sanchari Mahapatra: turn down the volume and give them what I want. 431 00:42:30.380 --> 00:42:46.850 Kimberly Marte: I don't know if the answer is very ambiguous to visualize, and we we and really good like, explain about like, how what is the process about that thing that to there? So thank you. Thanks for asking. It was an interesting question. 432 00:42:50.340 --> 00:42:53.040 Kimberly Marte: So my question will be around 433 00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:54.640 Kimberly Marte: reusing. 434 00:42:55.240 --> 00:43:01.660 Kimberly Marte: I think that we are definitely in a point in the world where we have to be responsible designers as well as innovative. 435 00:43:02.130 --> 00:43:07.799 Kimberly Marte: So I love the one presentation that you shared, that you created 436 00:43:07.930 --> 00:43:14.579 Kimberly Marte: products from things around us, and you were able to tell your consumer how to do it themselves. 437 00:43:14.810 --> 00:43:27.070 Kimberly Marte: which is really nice, because then materiality does not matter in regards to where you are financially set in the world you have the ability to make a product, no matter where you are. 438 00:43:27.340 --> 00:43:29.299 Kimberly Marte: I think that that's a beautiful thing. 439 00:43:29.750 --> 00:43:39.330 Kimberly Marte: So as we move into sustainability, and I'm. Sure in your current position this discussion is quite prevalent, as it is with my clients quite right now, quite prevalent. 440 00:43:39.510 --> 00:43:45.799 Kimberly Marte: How do we get from innovative sustainability to mass production? Sustainability? 441 00:43:48.290 --> 00:43:49.549 Sanchari Mahapatra: Hmm. 442 00:43:51.030 --> 00:43:55.520 Sanchari Mahapatra: I'm. Going to marinate that for some time before answering? 443 00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:56.990 Okay. 444 00:43:57.030 --> 00:43:59.110 how do we 445 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.410 Sanchari Mahapatra: scale sustainability. 446 00:44:01.700 --> 00:44:05.550 Sanchari Mahapatra: I think we have to be smart and 447 00:44:05.830 --> 00:44:07.570 Sanchari Mahapatra: choosing our battle. 448 00:44:07.680 --> 00:44:11.260 Sanchari Mahapatra: sustainability can be from many different 449 00:44:11.490 --> 00:44:17.520 Sanchari Mahapatra: terms. There is social sustainability of the people involved in making those products. 450 00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:22.479 Sanchari Mahapatra: Then there is material sustainability. Then there is 451 00:44:22.790 --> 00:44:33.479 Sanchari Mahapatra: sustainability in terms of using energy, making a product, whether it is used by wind, energy, solar, and in the electricity you know. How are we doing it? So it has many 452 00:44:33.610 --> 00:44:36.659 Sanchari Mahapatra: brothers and sisters. 453 00:44:36.750 --> 00:44:37.950 Sanchari Mahapatra: and 454 00:44:38.160 --> 00:44:46.329 Sanchari Mahapatra: depending on where our interest lies, even though if our education, and what we are trained for might be in a different line. 455 00:44:46.750 --> 00:44:53.059 Sanchari Mahapatra: I think we could choose that one specific line of thought, and see how we can 456 00:44:53.190 --> 00:44:56.560 Sanchari Mahapatra: scale things in that field. 457 00:44:57.040 --> 00:44:59.300 Sanchari Mahapatra: So if it's about. 458 00:44:59.770 --> 00:45:04.389 let's say car industry, it's such a complex product, almost 459 00:45:05.670 --> 00:45:10.309 Sanchari Mahapatra: hundreds of component inside the car, right? 460 00:45:10.460 --> 00:45:12.200 Sanchari Mahapatra: And 461 00:45:13.340 --> 00:45:21.170 Sanchari Mahapatra: in terms of color. If we apply sustainable colors, then it it's certainly it's communicating a message. But 462 00:45:22.850 --> 00:45:29.100 Sanchari Mahapatra: in terms of materiality we have to understand that even if we choose, a recycled Yan 463 00:45:29.230 --> 00:45:38.269 Sanchari Mahapatra: from the plus from the plastic bottles, and we were textile seat. Put it on. Ultimately it is 464 00:45:38.510 --> 00:45:43.110 Sanchari Mahapatra: glued together with form, and then it is put on a steel frame. 465 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:51.249 Sanchari Mahapatra: So I would encourage everyone to think of, Since you know system like, if you are talking of sustainability. 466 00:45:51.630 --> 00:45:56.980 Sanchari Mahapatra: It Can there be a system where, when we discard a car, these things can be taken apart. 467 00:45:57.390 --> 00:46:01.040 Sanchari Mahapatra: and who will do this job? Is anyone doing that job. 468 00:46:01.090 --> 00:46:09.509 Sanchari Mahapatra: So what is the use of making a textile site that is recycled in content if ultimately the final thing is not recycled. 469 00:46:09.980 --> 00:46:20.899 Sanchari Mahapatra: And I don't think we have found the answers. There are intention, good intentions. There are researchers that is happening to make it more achievable 470 00:46:21.040 --> 00:46:22.379 Sanchari Mahapatra: in future. But 471 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:30.470 Sanchari Mahapatra: I think it's the young generation like young aspiring designers like you guys who can think in system systematic way and not 472 00:46:31.380 --> 00:46:36.049 Sanchari Mahapatra: not. You could probably look into one particular thing like 473 00:46:36.130 --> 00:46:37.450 Sanchari Mahapatra: the seat 474 00:46:37.580 --> 00:46:39.729 Sanchari Mahapatra: or the dashboard. 475 00:46:39.790 --> 00:46:46.149 Sanchari Mahapatra: or the whole concept of mobility itself, like with Waymo, and I think it is Zooke's. 476 00:46:46.250 --> 00:46:59.269 Sanchari Mahapatra: and they have completely revolutionized the way. Transportation even happens, thereby reducing the concept of buying more cards. So that is also sustainable, right? And it is happening at a big, much bigger scale. 477 00:47:02.010 --> 00:47:15.470 Kimberly Marte: So. Yeah, I don't know if I answered your question. Okay. 478 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:31.700 Kimberly Marte: Marshall and Christine and I have been doing materials for a little bit longer. But in general, how do you feel the growth of the Cmf industry? The profession is going, and do you see opportunities? And what type of opportunities? 479 00:47:32.180 --> 00:47:35.660 Sanchari Mahapatra: Oh, certainly, yes, I think you will also agree, came 480 00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:44.430 Sanchari Mahapatra: from where we had started to. Now there are so many opportunities. I only came up across the title Cmf. Design 481 00:47:46.080 --> 00:47:51.399 Sanchari Mahapatra: much later, after like 7 8 years of my working after bachelor's. 482 00:47:51.520 --> 00:47:58.309 Sanchari Mahapatra: I was like, what is Cms design? How can I be of any use in automotive design? I work in the grassroots with 483 00:47:58.930 --> 00:48:03.669 Sanchari Mahapatra: like I'm. I'm working with bamboo and Texan and stuff like that. How can I be of any 484 00:48:03.850 --> 00:48:13.039 Sanchari Mahapatra: color material design since then has played a huge role, not only in automotive, but literally anything that you touch and feel the electronics. 485 00:48:13.530 --> 00:48:19.459 Sanchari Mahapatra: be it stationary goods, beat candles, be toys. 486 00:48:19.530 --> 00:48:23.150 Sanchari Mahapatra: the baby products a furniture 487 00:48:23.170 --> 00:48:27.849 Sanchari Mahapatra: I know furniture's. Industry does it in a a little different way. 488 00:48:27.900 --> 00:48:33.909 Sanchari Mahapatra: but it's again a fascinating space where you can work with soft and hard materials. 489 00:48:35.550 --> 00:48:39.410 Sanchari Mahapatra: metal, wood, and fabric as upholstery. 490 00:48:39.530 --> 00:48:46.609 Sanchari Mahapatra: and also the digital world like. I know someone who has gone into Disney now as a Cm. Designer. 491 00:48:46.810 --> 00:48:49.860 Sanchari Mahapatra: and there is light sound. 492 00:48:50.420 --> 00:48:53.950 Sanchari Mahapatra: You can go into performance theater. 493 00:48:54.370 --> 00:48:57.700 Sanchari Mahapatra: I I think the scope is humongous, and 494 00:48:58.090 --> 00:49:09.760 Sanchari Mahapatra: there are so many components of Cnf trend research, color material. You could be doing all of them together as a Cmf designer in one industry. But you could also just look into one aspect 495 00:49:09.780 --> 00:49:13.529 Sanchari Mahapatra: like how I am in Nike. I'm: just looking at material design. Not color. 496 00:49:17.030 --> 00:49:19.040 Marshall Hamachi: Looks like we have a question from Ari. 497 00:49:22.170 --> 00:49:27.169 Ariel Brice: Yeah, thanks. Thanks so much for sharing this. This has been great and 498 00:49:27.260 --> 00:49:35.599 Ariel Brice: food for a lot of thought. My name is Ari, and I teach at Art Center. I teach ceramics, classes, and 499 00:49:35.670 --> 00:49:40.209 Ariel Brice: yeah, and also some design fundamental one classes there. 500 00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:43.899 Ariel Brice: I he came over Kimberly. It's good to see you. 501 00:49:44.020 --> 00:49:52.419 Ariel Brice: So my question is about this. So when you show the Chai cups. Those are really interesting, and some of the videos that I've seen of those right they like. 502 00:49:52.950 --> 00:50:04.480 Ariel Brice: You know, a lot of those are fired a little bit, and then there they you drink chai out of them, and then they're recycled back into the actual like they're remixed with water, and they're able to be 503 00:50:04.780 --> 00:50:06.899 Ariel Brice: like reformed again. And 504 00:50:06.980 --> 00:50:13.660 Ariel Brice: I guess the question that I have has to do with like, especially to the students who are in automotive, like 505 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:32.040 Ariel Brice: what detail like like, can you talk? You talked about scale 2 questions ago, but, like you, also showed us what it's like to have 2 threads like weaving together. Is there any detail that's too small? Is there any scale that's too small to look at these materials, you know. 506 00:50:32.050 --> 00:50:37.030 Ariel Brice: for instance, like in ceramics, we talk about durability and changing 507 00:50:37.140 --> 00:50:47.069 Ariel Brice: the chemical formula to increase durability. So this things around for a long time. But some of the things you showed us like the the the chai, dive, fabric. 508 00:50:47.150 --> 00:51:07.020 Ariel Brice: and like, you know, those things are are sort of around, but they're not designed to be around forever, right. And so i'm curious what you thinking about, like what's the smallest scale of value for us to look at these materials. And as we're sort of innovating with them and thinking about them long term. 509 00:51:08.370 --> 00:51:10.790 Sanchari Mahapatra: Wow! This is a beautiful question 510 00:51:11.130 --> 00:51:15.940 Sanchari Mahapatra: I can jump into, I think. Yeah, sure, Kim. 511 00:51:16.140 --> 00:51:28.529 Kimberly Marte: do you want to go ahead? Sure. So one of the things I always bring in my class is it doesn't matter about scale? Everything that we touch should be thought about, and I like to bring up glitter. 512 00:51:28.950 --> 00:51:35.259 Kimberly Marte: because glitter is a microplastic that this generation throws on their face for any festival. 513 00:51:35.500 --> 00:51:45.890 Kimberly Marte: and I give them an understanding that there is a glitter that is made from eucalyptus that is, a 100% plant based and will biodegrade on its own. 514 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:52.770 Kimberly Marte: So I want them to think even the smallest of things can be affected, and we can innovate around. 515 00:51:52.900 --> 00:51:56.159 Kimberly Marte: and every little thing we touch should be thought about 516 00:51:57.990 --> 00:52:08.480 Sanchari Mahapatra: through scms as a Cmf person, or basically, just as a human being when I see so many glitter around stationary and packaging. 517 00:52:08.650 --> 00:52:21.580 Sanchari Mahapatra: i'm greatly troubled, because I know this is going to go into my trash, and then it will ultimately get dumped. And how will this disintegrate, or who will take it apart like there are millions of questions. So 518 00:52:21.740 --> 00:52:24.339 Sanchari Mahapatra: That's a great point. Ken. 519 00:52:24.590 --> 00:52:33.859 Sanchari Mahapatra: Thank you for telling me what ceremony I feel Textile and ceramics are like really cousin, sisters or brothers. I don't know their genders, but 520 00:52:36.120 --> 00:52:39.790 Sanchari Mahapatra: the the typing. I am so glad you brought it up. 521 00:52:40.500 --> 00:52:52.199 Sanchari Mahapatra: It is made with a certain thickness, so that it doesn't burn your fingers, but also. The ritual is that in one part of India where I come from, the ritual is, you drink and you crash it. 522 00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:57.500 Sanchari Mahapatra: and it disintegrates into the earth eventually. 523 00:52:57.740 --> 00:53:00.899 Sanchari Mahapatra: but that's why it is never glazed. 524 00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:03.730 Sanchari Mahapatra: but it is. 525 00:53:04.310 --> 00:53:09.740 Sanchari Mahapatra: It is heated in a certain temperature where it gets sterilized before you use 526 00:53:09.780 --> 00:53:10.939 Sanchari Mahapatra: so it can. 527 00:53:11.120 --> 00:53:18.630 Sanchari Mahapatra: You can refill the cup if you are the same consumer? I don't think it will be reused by other. No, that's too unhygenic, and not 528 00:53:18.720 --> 00:53:20.660 Sanchari Mahapatra: it won't be accepted. 529 00:53:20.900 --> 00:53:30.489 Sanchari Mahapatra: But when it comes to details it can go into the even the integrities of how someone is holding the cap. 530 00:53:30.530 --> 00:53:34.769 Sanchari Mahapatra: because if you see Chai drinkers in India. Always they hold it on the tip 531 00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:38.459 Sanchari Mahapatra: and not the in the body or the bottom. 532 00:53:38.590 --> 00:53:41.990 Sanchari Mahapatra: so they always fill it to. They don't fill it to the brain. 533 00:53:42.120 --> 00:53:45.650 Sanchari Mahapatra: It's not about. Oh, within $1 I should 534 00:53:46.890 --> 00:54:01.769 Sanchari Mahapatra: drink as much chai, but it is up to. There is a certain rim to which, so the detail of a product designer could also look into. Hey, can I create a faint line so that the Chai seller can know he has to fill it all this much only 535 00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:05.739 Sanchari Mahapatra: so those are the attention to detail the attention to care 536 00:54:05.830 --> 00:54:13.039 Sanchari Mahapatra: for someone who is going to use it. Someone who is going to make it. Hey? Let me not make a design which is so integrated that the maker 537 00:54:13.830 --> 00:54:24.849 Sanchari Mahapatra: maker's eyesight gets affected, and I learned that from my teacher because I did a very integrate textile design, and she was like this: Go, Person will go blind making that on the hand loom. 538 00:54:25.160 --> 00:54:31.929 Sanchari Mahapatra: you know. So it's the attention and care to the maker also with making the T-shirt or the car. 539 00:54:32.410 --> 00:54:41.129 Sanchari Mahapatra: Yeah. So attention I think studying textile really helped me to pay attention to details going in any finger or any profession. 540 00:54:42.650 --> 00:54:44.840 Ariel Brice: Thank you so much. That's amazing. 541 00:54:46.590 --> 00:54:54.359 Marshall Hamachi: So it looks like we're coming to the end of our time. We have perhaps room for one more question. If anyone has one last question 542 00:54:57.230 --> 00:54:59.239 Marshall Hamachi: just checking. I don't see any 543 00:54:59.740 --> 00:55:01.450 Marshall Hamachi: That's okay. 544 00:55:02.250 --> 00:55:05.830 Marshall Hamachi: Okay. Then why don't? We go ahead and and wrap up 545 00:55:05.900 --> 00:55:24.539 Marshall Hamachi: Santari on behalf of everyone here at Art Center. We thank you so very much for being gracious with your time and sharing your story and experience. It's incredibly inspiring, and we look forward to being able to share this with other members of the community who couldn't make it here with the recording. 546 00:55:25.380 --> 00:55:34.949 Sanchari Mahapatra: Sure again, like I said, thanks for this opportunity. This is a great platform to share my story from India, and here as well in the Us. 547 00:55:36.550 --> 00:55:37.979 Kristine Upesleja: Thank you so much. 548 00:55:39.950 --> 00:55:42.149 Sanchari Mahapatra: Hopefully we'll look forward to more. 549 00:55:42.420 --> 00:55:44.719 Sanchari Mahapatra: Oh, yeah, my pleasure. 550 00:55:44.890 --> 00:55:59.909 Sanchari Mahapatra: Thank you so much nice to see everybody, and thank you very much, and people on the back. The students thank you for your yeah for your time. I know you are in automotive, and well, you must be wondering like, how is this useful for us? 551 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:01.160 Sanchari Mahapatra: Anyone? 552 00:56:01.670 --> 00:56:07.040 Kimberly Marte: Yeah, we're good. Thank you so much. Have a great afternoon. Thank you, bye bye. 553 00:56:07.200 --> 00:56:09.129 Kyu, Lee: Thank you.