{"id":1378,"date":"2010-06-23T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2010-06-23T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:28:02","slug":"indian-creative-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2010\/06\/23\/indian-creative-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian creative genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great article titled the: <a href=\"http:\/\/changeobserver.designobserver.com\/entry.html?entry=13748\" target=\"_blank\">The Subtle Technology of Indian Artisanship<strong>: <\/strong>From saris to hand-painted signs, design thinking is an  unacknowledged force in Indian craft<\/a> by Ken Botnick &amp; Ira Raja. I have written about ideas such as these earlier, particularly in the context of Jugaad\u00a0 (aka situational creativity). (Thanks Babitha George for the link). This is of course connected to the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/200910\/everyday-creativity\" target=\"_blank\">Everyday Creativity<\/a> (that Lawrence Bruce had shared in a comment on a <a href=\"..\/2010\/06\/01\/thoughtless-acts\/\">previous post<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For instance see these posts:<a title=\"Permanent Link to Thoughtless acts? Technology,  creativity &amp; teaching\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2010\/06\/01\/thoughtless-acts\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Thoughtless acts? Technology,  creativity &amp; teaching\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2010\/06\/01\/thoughtless-acts\/\">Thoughtless acts? Technology, creativity  &amp; teaching<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Thoughtless acts? Technology,  creativity &amp; teaching\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2010\/06\/01\/thoughtless-acts\/\">Thoughtless acts? Technology, creativity  &amp; teaching<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Jugaad, educational toys from  Junk (TPACK at work)\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2009\/09\/14\/jugaad-educational-toys-from-trash-tpack-at-work\/\">Jugaad, educational toys from Junk (TPACK at work)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Jugaad, India-genous  creativity\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/2008\/09\/07\/jugaad-india-genous-creativity\/\">Jugaad, India-genous creativity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are lots of cool examples in this article but the one that stood out was this one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"ad in India\" src=\"http:\/\/changeobserver.designobserver.com\/media\/images\/india_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This underwear sign presents an example of  innovative thinking about space. Finding a drain<br \/>\nopening in the path of  his endeavors, the artist spontaneously incorporated a navel (and home  for a mynah bird)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How wonderful is that!! Read the entire article for more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great article titled the: The Subtle Technology of Indian Artisanship: From saris to hand-painted signs, design thinking is an unacknowledged force in Indian craft by Ken Botnick &amp; Ira Raja. I have written about ideas such as these earlier, particularly in the context of Jugaad\u00a0 (aka situational creativity). (Thanks Babitha George for the link). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,10,11,45,37,22,8,49],"tags":[600,610,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}