Visual Representation : From Doodles to Mindmap
July 16, 2010 Leave a comment
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Time: 2:30 PM
Venue: ISB&M Auditorium, Kolkata
Speaker : Mr. Akash Mondal
“ I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.” – Anne McCaffrey
Our next speaker, Prof. Akash Mondal elaborated on the aspects of doodling. From the definition of doodling to its various usages. From its birth to its importance, all such topics were discussed. His explanatory was complemented with an apt slide show on doodling.
He put forward the theory of doodling through real and practical examples. Doodling is about portraying thoughts, ideas, and information through pictorial diagrams. He spoke about different uses of doodling like story boarding, mind maps, visualization, data repesentation etc. According to Prof. Akash, to be an advertising creative or for that to be of any creative background, one need not know drawing at the level of excellence. Even a general person who can hold the pen and can give a picture to his imagination, thoughts or information (in other words can doodle) can easily become a person of creative excellence.
To anchorage this point, Rene Auberjonois, a famous American actor said, “I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I’m not a trained artist, I couldn’t sit down and do an accurate portrait of any one.”
The students were given an assignments on data represention through doodling. Around 7 to 8 groups of 8 members each were made. Each group was given a situation on which they had to prepare a mind map to come out with varied solutions. It was a very exciting task and the students enjoyed the session a lot.
Some of the topics thestudents worked on included :
Some of your friends are on a trek. Due to a natural calamity they are stuck. It is a Friday afternoon. They contact you over a cell phone and provide you with their approx. location and ask for help. You are in Kolkata.
Mind map as to the how you could help them considering all possible situations.
Time Now: 4 pm
Argentina vs. Germany at 7 pm tonight.
You decide to invite your friends to watch the match on your new home theatre and have a great time.
Mind map as to how you will go about it.
You (a girl of 20 yrs)
have won a contest and Ranbir Kapoor is visiting your home to spend the day (8.00 am – 12 midnight).
Mind map to cover every aspect to make the day memorable.
Year 2020 A media student of ISB&M.
How would she be like ? What accessories she would be carrying ?
Mind map and doodle to represent her
10 years from now.
Your relative is going on a conference to Paris. It is her First time outside India.
She has asked your suggestion and requested you to plan it out.
Create a Mind map considering every aspect.
Create a Visual Map from Karunamoyee to ISB&M Campus
Reported by:
Amrisha Poddar
1st semester, BScMCAJ
Photography by :
Souveek Adhikary – BSC-MCAJ Semester 1
Students of ISB&M, Kolkata
