STUDENT
Omar Shaikh
PROFESSOR
Ayaz Basrai
What does an object hold? Is it purely utilitarian? Or can it hold an entire culture?
Design through a craft tradition is not about oneself, it is an endless tapestry being continuously woven through the centuries, and our job designers not to make a garish mark of our own, but to pick up the threads left by our ancestors and continue weaving the narrative as it unfolds around us. The role of designers is to articulate these values of craft to empower the craftsmen through a collaborative approach that doesn’t treat the craftsmen as nameless piece of labor but as a partner in keeping this sophisticated, multifaceted approach to design its proper place as a bulwark against the contemporary world of hyper-capitalized consumerist design frameworks.