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Visual Representation : From Doodles to Mindmap

Participants Feedback of the session

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

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Enthralled by his personality, oratorship and philosophy towards photography.

Some of the quotes by Mr. Raghu Rai, that changed my perception

“All that is pretty and beautiful…. is anti-creativity.”

“You photographer with a programmed mind.”

“Make yourself available to the situation … body, mind and spiritual”

“If you reject something, you might be disconnecting.”

“Every inch of space matters”

“A visual is a 1000 words… what about silence?”

“Document life… capture history.”

“Capture the reality… shoot at eye-level, focus all backgrounds, foregrounds.”

“Realization happens then and there.”

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“Living several moments at one point.”

Making Your Presence Online

Participants at the workshop

Date: March 16 (eve) – 21 (eve), 2010
Venue: Dhyan Ashram, Konchowki, Kolkata

JESA organized a 5 day workshop on web designing titled “Making Your Presence Online”. This is being organized mainly to help the South Asian Jesuits involved in Social Action to make their presence and their involvement more visible.  UCA News Link

Being able to assist them for 3 days  was a wonderful experience.
Sincere thanks to Fr. Xavier Jeyaraj and Fr. Julian S. Das for their support.