AT A GLANCE
Kartick Ghosh
Area of Practice: Sustainable and green design,Inclusive design, Local craftsmanship,Lifestyle accessory product design,Eco-system and design-development
OVERVIEW
Trained at Craft and Product design (Specialized in Furniture and Interior Product design).
Kartick is a practicing designer and educator trained in product & furniture design and development.
Kartick’s practice is predominantly embedded in grass-root-level innovation and design development.
In his practice, his process emphasized on material as a tool for reflect and express the design-thinking ability for problem solving and creating opportunity through hands on making to make the life of community in his daily interaction easier and more comfortable through sustainable and safe practices.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION DETAILS: Professional Qualifications:
1. Post-Graduation in Craft Design. Specialization in Furniture & Interior product Design. Institute: Indian Institute of Crafts & Design, Jaipur (Rajasthan). Set up by the Govt. of Rajasthan.
2. Post-Graduation in Marketing & Sales Management Institute: L.N. Mishra Institute of Economic Development & Social change., Patna, The Magadh University.
3. Diploma in Fine Arts. Specialization in Painting. University: Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Academic Qualifications:
4. B.Sc., Chemistry as major subject, Graduation Specialization-Chemistry (Major sub.) Physics, Mathematics, Additional sub. University: Burdwan University, West Bengal.
5. Higher Secondary (10+2) TH In science (Physics, chemistry, Mathematics, Biology).
6. Senior Secondary (10TH)
WORK EXPERIENCE
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL FIELD:
1.Working as a Faculty of Product and craft design and its development at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology (From 2015 to still going on).
2.He was also selected at Ansal University, Gurgaon as a faculty of Product and Craft design at time of selection at Srishti.
3.Worked as a Product and Craft Designer and its development in Siddhartha Das Productions Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
4.Worked as a Product Designer cum Production Supervisor in Bentwood Seating System(P)Ltd, Belghoria, Kolkata. I was engaged there for the design and development of Dining table set in mix materials using product design techniques and technology.
5. Job-profile: Worked as a Product Designer in National Centre for Design and Product Development (Set up by Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India.) at 43 Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi-110020.
6. Project Title: Internship Training Program at Wheaton’s Design Pvt. Ltd., Jaipur
(6th Week),
Designed and developed: The Mast’s head (which is a parts of a furniture).
Project Title: 6 months Professional Diploma Project on Furniture design and development in combination of materials at Wheaton’s Design Pvt. Ltd.
Designed and developed: Furniture design and development in combination of materials like, sheet metal, glass, wood.
INTEREST AREAS
Nature and Eco-system and design-development, Sustainable and green design
Inclusive design: Local and Global, locally resources bur scaling it globally in the specialization area of lifestyle accessory product design.
Slow design and safe practices through sustainable design practices.
Local materials, local craftsmanship, locally available resources, and its application but intended scaling it globally.
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
1.Craft process, practices, and materials and Craft product design and Storytelling. (understanding materials, tools, and techniques through the mapping of the Craft process and Practices). • Larger ideas of the studio: Reviewing craft process, crafts, and its elements to visualize and connect to the community life and its practices by the understanding, analyzing, exploring, and expressing craft through materials, tools, and techniques. Three major segments of the whole Process: Mapping and understanding of crafts and its elements through the craft process and practices of its community, By understanding, analyzing, exploring, and expressing craft through materials, tools, and techniques and adding value to it, To connect and facilitate the community life and its practices. Craft and community and emotions, Crafts, and storytelling through the lens of craft- cluster and community practices.
2.Product -form studies and crafting with Clay. (Clay as a reflective medium for the Design thinking tools and techniques through product design and development. Context: Nature and Ecosystem: Nature as inspirations and metaphor, Organic is the context) Nature and Ecosystem: The product design and development through the Story telling of Mushrooms and Fungus, Modular, fractal and System thinking. Class process images: FSP Workshop.
3.Basic materials and process, and Introduction to Hand skills. Material as a tool for reflect and express the design-thinking ability for problem solving and creating opportunity through hands on making. Craft techniques and Storytelling as a tangible product form to connect with the users by developing curiosity among them. Class process images.
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Craft process, practices, and materials and Craft product design and Storytelling.
(understanding materials, tools, and techniques through the mapping of the Craft process and Practices).
• Larger ideas of the studio:
Reviewing craft process, crafts, and its elements to visualize and connect to the community life and its practices by the understanding, analyzing, exploring, and expressing craft through materials, tools, and techniques.
Three major segments of the whole Process:
Mapping and understanding of crafts and its elements through the craft process and practices of its community,
By understanding, analyzing, exploring, and expressing craft through materials, tools, and techniques and adding value to it,
To connect and facilitate the community life and its practices.
Craft and community and emotions, Crafts, and storytelling through the lens of craft- cluster and community practices.
2.Product -form studies and crafting with Clay.
(Clay as a reflective medium for the Design thinking tools and techniques through product design and development. Context: Nature and Ecosystem: Nature as inspirations and metaphor, Organic is the context) Nature and Ecosystem: The product design and development through the Story telling of Mushrooms and Fungus, Modular, fractal and System thinking.
Class process images: FSP Workshop.
3.Basic materials and process, and Introduction to Hand skills.
Material as a tool for reflect and express the design-thinking ability for problem solving and creating opportunity through hands on making. Craft techniques and Storytelling as a tangible product form to connect with the users by developing curiosity among them.
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
Making as a tool for design thinking through observing, understanding, and experiencing, play and invent, explorations and experimentations with frugal materials for innovation and as new way of thinking, connecting, and reflecting.
New ways of Observing and understanding, thinking and visualizing, reflecting and re-expressing product design tools and techniques and its development through hands on making in application of craft medium.