An Exploration of Design: Based on Pan-Asian Semiotics and Semantics
Poet Rabindranath Tagore and artist Okakura Tenshin have collectively preached exploration of design semantics and semiotics based on Pan-Asian ideologies. The present paper attempts to establish their preaching based on an exploration of design in formin
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Abstract Poet Rabindranath Tagore and artist Okakura Tenshin have collectively preached exploration of design semantics and semiotics based on Pan-Asian ideologies. The present paper attempts to establish their preaching based on an exploration of design in forming the un-built and built Architectural spaces. Design parameters integrated with nature and tradition are the major concerns in inseminating language of architectural expression. The paper attempts to establish the triad of Nature-Originality-Tradition, with a juxtaposition of heritage based creativity and innovation based high-end technologies. Finally, a conception of shared identity by the twin preachings through a confederation of art systems driven by a Pan-Asian viewpoint is identified as a major outcome of this paper.
Keywords Pan-Asian ideology Triad of nature Confederation/systems of art and design
Creativity and originality
1 Introduction All fine architectural values are human values, or else not valuable at all. —Frank Lloyd Wright
The paper aims to forward an exploration of design semiotics and semantics in the light of a Pan-Asian ideology hailed by Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Artist Okakura Kakuzo. In the first part, the paper deals with Tagore’s idea of design parameters and aesthetics. Tagore has explained design based on the processes of complementarities amongst Nature as the upper part of the triad and tradition and
T. Bhattacharya (&) J. Sen Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] J. Sen e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 A. Chakrabarti and D. Chakrabarti (eds.), Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 66, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_64
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originality being the two poles in the bottom rung. Nature stands as a culmination of design proto-types, ideologies and a deeper algorithm; whereas the other two represent creativity grounded on heritage as opposed to the lower rung, i.e., innovation based on high-end technologies. The thought is in alliance with that of artist Okakura Kakuzo. To best substantiate the idea, the paper has subsequently explored the twin preachings in two concurrent parts 3 and 4. A living ecological laboratory by Tagore called the Santiniketan-Sriniketan experiment, inclusive of a major extension called the School of Design (Silpa Sadana); and instances of designs in Shinto gardens and the art systems of Okakura are the case studies. Thus, the paper argues that through an integrated triad of ‘Nature-Tradition-Originality’, much of modern design can be self-automated and self-sustained in a Pan-Asian continuum. The paper also concludes by establishing the idea of human-nature interaction and the natural design based parameters through the twin set of case studies based on a Pan Asian foundation of Design.
2 Literature Review To best arrive at an
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