Masters Application 2024

TABLE OF CONTENT

Sleep + Dreams

Subconcious behaviour during various cognitive states

/Personification of space

M.Des communication design
Graduation project

Experience Design

Influencing human behaviour using various environmental and sensory stimulus

/Museum of Architecture

B.Arch/ VNIT Nagpur
Graduation project

/Impact of murals on space and psychology

B.Arch/ VNIT Nagpur
Graduation Research project

/The Art of Chronicle of a Death Foretold

M.Des communication design
Semester project

/Day in a life of !

Daily practices to enhance my work and sleep experience

Interaction Design

Emphasising on Human-Computer interaction and experiences

/Virtual IDC

M.Des communication design
Graduation Research project

/AR Experiences

AR Visual storytelling and Illustrations

Day in a life of...!

How do I enhance my work experience using audio, visual & Olfactory experiences

/Virtual IDC

M.Des communication design
Graduation Research project

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How does our

'Consciousness'

able to influence

Human behaviour

during

'Sleep' & 'dream'

state

As part of my M.Des, Communication design, IDC, IIT Bombay, Graduation project, An experimental VR Animated short film Called 'Personification of space' where I was trying to understand the space, that is everything, exist everywhere and beyond the physical and metaphysical realm. I named this metaphysical character 'OMNI'!

If it exists everywhere, then it has to be within us! so I have started few methods to understand microscopic nature of the space and started few inward experiments to understand, how our mind thinks while letting our body sleep. The following article would cover only cognitive experience, for full project details click 'HERE!'

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Personification of Space!

M.Des 2021 Graduation project

Hypnogogic writing

Whenever I was in a Hypnagogic state and I suddenly wake up from sleep and do the following:

1. I need to keep a notebook beside my pillow

2. Everytime I wake up, I need to quickly write down the last thing I was thinking and write down backward till the first thing

Tip:

I reduced from writing paragraph, sentences to keywords. This is because during hynogogyic is a semi sleep state and writing requires you to articulate your thoughts, that make you concious or awake furthermore loosing your drowzy or semi sleep state.

Dream writing

Every day I end my day with writing a project report and concisely and before I go to sleep I used to :

1. I write down the key thoughts that are troubling me, put on my headphones and play binaural beats in medium volume and sleep

2. The next morning, I spend an hour writing down backward from till the first thing I remember.

3. I used to first list down all the key people, environments, scenarios and relate them with the emotional & psychological jerks faced in the past few days

Side Effects

It was an abuse to my body and sleep schedule. This is an outdated version the later I have updated and following few practices on daily basis. You can check them Here!

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It was an abuse to my body and sleep schedule. This is an outdated version the later I have updated and following few practices on daily basis. You can check them Here!

Personification/Hypnogic writing

Whenever I was in a Hypnagogic state and I suddenly wake up from sleep

/Cause/Action

1. I need to keep a notebook beside my pillow

2. Everytime I wake up, I need to quickly write down the last thing I was thinking and write down backward till the first thing

/SideEffects (/Er)

It was an abuse to my body and sleep schedule. This is an outdated version the later I have updated and following few practices on daily basis. You can check them <link "Day in a life of..!" link>

/Tip I reduced from writing paragraph, sentences to keywords. This is because during hynogogyic is a semi sleep state and writing requires you to articulate your thoughts, that make you concious or awake furthermore loosing your drowzy or semi sleep state.

Personification/Hypnogogic writing

Every day I end my day with writing a project report and concisely and before I go to sleep I used to :

/Cause/Action

write down the key thoughts that are troubling me, put on my headphones and play any binaural beats in very low volume and sleep /Effect/Hypothesis Hoping that it would incubate while dreaming

/Cause/Action The next morning, I spend an hour writing down backward from till the first thing I remember.

/Cause/Action I used to first list down all the key people, environments, scenarios and relate them with the emotional & psychological jerks faced in the past few days

/Ref: I have attached the full detail documentation and dissection of one of my dream and their semantic relation with my near past experiences in report|link to report <link "M.Des/Personfocation" link>

Below are a few other research topics I have been currently exploring that are closely related to cognitive psychology and study on 'The impact of various conscious states on human behavior!'. A complete list of research topics can be found in the 'Project-8' section!

Guided Navigation system for supporting the visually impaired while commuting through complex and dynamic Environments
Understanding spatial perception with spatial-auditorial and haptic cues using wearable sensors and designing Immersive guided experiences accordingly
Designing a Novel gaming and immersive system for the visually impaired using haptic-based wearable sensors.
Understanding the impact of a unit sound or auditory cue in human verbal communication on perception and designing a realistic or the most humane auditory and visually expressive(Visual gestures) conversational and avatar AI behavior system

-Ardhanaareeswara: An experimental short or feature-length film that showcases the union of divine masculine and feminine characters in nature using an amalgamation of Indian classical music and dance forms

-Personification: An experimental short or feature-length film that presents the immense power of the personification method. Inspired by the Indian ancient epics this short film encompasses various visual arts and performance arts across the world.

Below are few sketch-notes that might interest you that deals with cognition, sensory perception and wearable design explorations

Understanding how we can influence users mood, emotions using environmental stimuli.

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Graduation project

B.ARCH 2018

Murals, Space & Psychology

As part of my B.Arch graduation project, I focused on understanding the impact of my own art expression on architecture and users psychology, where I have created more than 10 small and large scale murals prior to my semester in multiple public and private spaces to understand the impact.

During my B.Arch 2018 and M.Des 2021 I have been exploring how we can influence users mood and emotions using environmental details. I began with as small as a room scale and building to as large as a Town plan to understand how human behaviour influences Architecture & their environment and how our environment can influence human behaviour throughout time.

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Graduation project

B.ARCH 2018

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Impact of murals on space and psychology: Influencing user mood and behaviour pattern using visual arts

Graduation Research

B.ARCH 2018

Murals | Space & Psychology

As part of my B.Arch graduation project, I focused on understanding the impact of my own art expression on architecture and psychology, where I have created more than 10 small and large scale murals prior to my semester in multiple public and private spaces to understand the impact.

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Graduation Thesis

B.ARCH 2018

Museum of Architecture

I was trying to understand how everything around us impact our various mood swings. By altering the space around us, how architecture composition using sensory cues creates a common shared experience to all the audience. I wanted to create an architecture installation that not just ........ more

The whole project is an amalgamation of arts and adaptive parametric design composing the spaces as per contours, playing with lights and shades using various form and materials, narrating the story of architecture using various facades and installation techniques, meticulously designed as per topography, sun path, geographical and cultural context.

Influencing user mood and behaviour pattern using Environmental stimuli

#Audio #Visual #Haptic Olfactory

view full project/

Graduation Thesis

M.Des | Communication Design 2018

Impact of organic human settlements on change in space, culture, society and architecture through time

The Art of Chronicles of a Death foretold

A visual interpretation of the Novella “The Chronicles of death foretold” by “Garcia Gabriel Marcquez”, where I tried to recreate the whole fictional town: Sucre, Columbia; based on how characters narrated the town, cultural, geography and urban context, accurately designing the town described in the novella.

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How do I, On daily basis use environmental and direct stimuli to enhance my work and sleep experience

There are few evolved practices that I still follow for my day-day chores, where I use various sensory cues to enhance daily cognitive functions by associating various light intensities, colour variation & other audio-visual, Olfactory stimuli to invoke & enhance my focus when needed.

‘Day in a life of’ showcases my daily rituals on how I use the environment, light, shade, colors and other daily object to help me personify based on a method called “personification” that I have been working on!

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First I began understanding the issue and in the later we'll dive in to the cause and how I tackled them:

Noise pollution: It doesn't effect my execution or hands-on work but any project that involves lots of thought process or putting them down on a paper. Also as I'm doing WFH it effect my online meeting and work experience alot.

Environmental factor:

Dark and Cozy: I'm highly productive during night as it feel pleasant and calm. Even during day, if I choose a darker environment to enhance my focus. This is a personal constraint as per which my room lightning is designed.

Personal factors:

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Project 8

Research projects and explorations

Among 64 research topics, many novel systems are being turned into use cases. Below are a few of my favorite explorations that affected the way I perceive the world. During my upcoming master's and learning period till 2026, I aim to create a few prototypes. Meanwhile, before I join my second master's in 2024 I'll be ready with the detailed logical flows and structure of the projects, especially projects related to cognitive psychology, neuroscience and understanding Human behavior during awake, dream & sleep states to enhance our daily cognitive functions

Below are a few research topics:

-Project Inverse | I have my own verbal & written language! | Designing a verbal & written conversational system using inversion as the key parameter in defining the syntax of the language -Mathematics ( Inspired from the above language syntax ) -Binary 8! (Factorial) OS (Inspired from the above Mathematics structure) -Designing for Blind: Guided Navigation system for supporting visually impaired while commuting through complex & Dynamic Environment -Understanding spatial perception with spatio auditorial and haptic cues using wearable sensors and designing Immersive guided experiences accordingly -Designing a Novel gaming and immersive system for visually impaired using Haptic based sensory Stimulus -System and method to 3d reconstruct a lowpoly Digital Replica of the real world using visual semantic understanding of topography without the use of Depth sensors -Identify the contour/topography of the occluded area using RF perception(Signal processing) & Generative relatively a high poly Depth map & 3d mesh and materialistic properties -A Human computer interaction system to control multiple assets using cognitive controllers by associating volumetric weights/ pressure points (Bi directional neural communication system| Neural surface-implants) -Understanding the impact of a unit sound or auditory cue in human verbal communication on perception and designing a realistic or the most humane auditory and visually expressive(Visual gestures) conversational and avatar AI behaviour system -Project 3E: Excessive Expressive Expressions: A system and method to concise any system in to 4 chunks satisfying the ‘vedanta’ guidlines Code noting: A system and method to convert the conversational writing into Data functions and input parameters for developing your own novel systems, tools & Neural Training modules based on 8 specific conditions -Ardhanaareeswara: An experiemental feature length film that showcases the union of divinie masculine and feminine characters in nature using an amalgamation of indian classical music and dance forms. -Personification: An experiemental short or feature length film that presents the immense power of personification method. Inspired from the indian ancient epics this shortfilm encompassses various visual arts and performance arts across the world.

DRAW learning program

DRAW (Design Research Arts Writing ) is an educational program aimed to provide a together understanding on Arts, Design, Research, Documentation, and storytelling helping the students to enhance self-learning capabilities. Estimated to finish DRAW2024INDIAPROGRAM by April 2024 that includes online courses, auditorial guided learning modules, All India workshop, 1 Experimental animated short film (BIG Picture), study materials and magazines, estimated to start my publication by 2040 and translate it into a knowledge center.

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Online course content

Online Course emphasis on Self-Learning capabilities and introducing various Art, Design & Storytelling methods as show below. The online course content extents to open source explanatory videos, podcasts and work materials designed specific for each section