Form & Emotion

Form Studies focuses on the aspects of aesthetics, perception and materialisation of architectural compositions. You will acquire insight in the creative process and how this can help you to come to innovative design solutions. This allows you to gain knowledge and understanding of the various aesthetical outcomes.

Form & Emotion is to understand a form with respect to emotions attached to it and come up with a simplified form that describes the attributes of selected subject.

By – Manoj Kuldeep Lifestyle Product Designer FORM & EMOTION Assignment 1 – To depict a word/attribute using human posture forms, getting a single form merged in shadow.

Objective – To understand form integration. Form generation.

Learning – I have learned how 2 different forms or elements are combined to create a single form. Exploring various postures to create a shadow silhouette, with a partner. Understanding of morphing.

Assignment 2 - To pick any person and study his/her behavior /body language etc thoroughly and finding out similar behavior in any animal/ food/ color/any living thing.

Objective – To understand behavior and features common in two distinct things.

Learning – Understanding the behavior, features, body language, emotions of the selected person and showing them using colors.

Similarities of behavior, features/emotions etc of a human and a animal.

Understanding form and emotions through various mediums.

Attributes –

Friendly Naughty EXPRESSING FORM LANGUAGE THROUGH COLOR Prabhakar Dabral Student – ADM, Batch 2012 National Institute Of Design

Colors which associate with my subject

BRIGHT YELLOW - Intuition. Enlightened intellect. Represents playfulness. Gaiety, Joy.

Ivory Pink - Friendly.

Muddy Pink - An individual who is immature. What do different color means :

Royal Blue - Promotes laughter and joviality; colour of loyalty. Brings peace and tranquility to the home. Confidence. Friendship. Success. • BLUE- Gives peace of mind. Represents Spirituality, and religion. The most calming colour. Indicates sensitivity, truth, healing, hope, friendship, physical protection, creativity, patience, wisdom, peace, loyalty. Assists with sleep. Represents inner light. Guidance. • BROWN - Represents the practical. A down to earth approach. Animal magic, Symbol of home, friendship, grounding. Opens energy channels. Eliminates indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration. • CLOUDY ORANGE - Low intellect. • CORAL - Friendship, friends. • Golden Brown - Friendship. Illumination, wisdom. • Golden YellowJoy and Gladness.

• Yellow- so much playful and softness. Naughtiness, fun-loving, entertainer • Red – very much friendly, • Pink – soft-spoken, a bit immature, lighthearted person • Blue – very crazy sometimes, but very calm • Black – soft-core somewhere, inner sadness. • White – he make u feel happy or smile dude to his behavior or expressions, u ll become like him. Like white color makes any color lighter when mixed with it.

Next task is to take any animal that matches with the attributes of the selected person and study that animal thoroughly in terms of form language.

I had selected squirrel, as its attributes matches with my subject. Research on Indian Palm Squirrel

• Squirrels belong to a large family of small or medium- Rodents sized rodents called the Sciuridae. The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots(including woodchucks) , flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and have been introduced to Australia. The earliest known squirrels date from the Eocene and are most closely related to the mountain beaver and to the dormouse among living species.

• Rodentia is the order of mammals known as rodents, characterised by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing.

• Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they are found in vast numbers on all continents other than Antarctica. Common rodents include mice, rats, squirrels, porcupines, beavers, guinea pigs, and hamsters. Rodents use their sharp incisors to gnaw wood, break into food, and bite predators. Most rodents eat seeds or plants, though some have more varied diets. Some species have historically been pests, eating seeds stored by people and spreading disease.

• Squirrel is a very special animal.

• It is one of very few wild animals that have adapted to humans and learned to coexist with man.

•It can live on both natural foods and handouts.

• Its large tail makes it the most recognized mammal on Earth.

• It amazes us with daring high wire acts, as it races through the tree branches.

•The Gray squirrel has been traced back 50 million years, from a fossil record made in North America.

•According to ancient Greeks, where Aristotle used the word "skiouros," skia meaning shade, while "oura" means tail. Thus the meaning "he who sits in the shadow of his tail" was recorded. Centuries later the French created a noun "esquirel" to describe this animal. From this the present word "squirrel" was derived.

•There are over 365 species of squirrels or squirrel like mammals through out the world.

•These are divided into seven families. •The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots(including woodchucks), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs.

INDIAN PALM SQUIRREL

• Inhabit most of the northern hemisphere. • Most common of the tree squirrels. India, Sri Lanka and Western Australia • Bushy tail • Three conspicuous white stripes which run from head to tail. • Creamy-white belly and a tail covered with interspersed, long, black and white hairs. • Small and triangular ears. • The Indian Palm Squirrel is about 20 cm long and weighs about 100 grams. • Some squirrels are smart and tend to hibernate in the winter but this particular squirrel is not one of them.

LIFE CYCLE • The gestation period is 34 days, • Breeding - grass nests during the autumn. • The young are weaned after about 10 weeks and are sexually mature at 9 months. • One specimen lived 5.5 years in captivity • Most urban squirrels do not even live for one year. This is not due to predators, but rather to automobiles. • Compared to its rural counterpart, which often perishes from the lack of food.

What type of trees do squirrels live in?

• A tree that offers ready, safe access to food and that includes safe, comfortable living conditions for setting up a home is what tree squirrels [Sciuridae family] look for.

In terms of food, tree squirrels prefer access to nuts such as acorns, almonds, hickories, osage oranges, and walnuts. In terms of fruits and vegetables, they look to avocados, cherries, corn, oranges, pears, strawberries, and tomatoes. But they also consider such 'Plan B' food sources as tree buds, blossoms and bark; insects; and animal matter.

In terms of living conditions, tree squirrels like the safety of cavities or hollows in tree trunks. But they make do by enlarging abandoned flicker or woodpecker holes. They also turn to building their balloon shaped, spherical nests of bark, leaves and sticks high up in trees with dense foliage and sturdy, tall branches.

Whether the particular tree choice is hardwood or conifer depends upon the type of tree squirrel. Generally, the favored trees are pines, oaks, maples, and hickories. Specifically, the Douglas [Tamiasciurus douglasii] and the tassel eared tree [Sciurus aberti] squirrels favor such conifers as jack or Ponderosa pines. But they give serious consideration to paper birch trees.

DIET and BEHAVIOUR • Eat mainly nuts and fruits,seeds, conifer cones, fungi and green vegetation. They will eat scrapes from the trash including bread, meat and even snack food. • Squirrels cannot digest cellulose, so must rely on foods rich in protein, • They are fairly vocal, with a cry that sounds like "chip chip chip" when danger is present. • Opportunists in urban areas, can be easily domesticated and trained to accept food from humans. • Naturally active, their activity reaches levels of frenzy during the mating season. • They tend to be very protective of their food sources, often guarding and defending them from birds and other squirrels.

IMPORTANCE IN HINDUISM • Considered sacred in India and are not to be harmed. Fed by many Hindu families. This is mainly because of their association with Lord Rama. • An interesting legend explains the stripes on the back of most of the squirrels. During the construction of the Adi Sethu (bridge) at Rameswaram by Lord Rama and the Vanara Sena , a little squirrel also contributed in its own little way. It rolled in the beach sand and then ran to the end of the Sethu to shake off the sand from its back (chanting Lord Rama's name all along). • Lord Rama, pleased by the creature's dedication, caressed the squirrel's back and ever since, the Indian squirrel carried white stripes on its back, which are believed to be the mark of Lord Rama's fingers. Lord Rama and the squirrel is mentioned in one of the hymns of the Alvars.

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Squirrel anatomy

THANK YOU ROLE OF SQIRREL TAIL

As towel To clean his mouth and body. For balancing. To scare, to terrify enemy. Use of tail to hide in trees and bushes. As a couch – a cover lid for head and body. It heats up their tail to fend of rattle snake. Use as security blanket in winters. Use as a sunshade to protect from sun. Use as parachute when it jumps. To communicate with other squirrels.