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Concepts and Themes - To start

  • Concepts 
Concepts provide a focus for transferring knowledge and understanding to representation. 
Concept is an idea or innovation (abstract/ open- not narrow )
Concept is basic.
Representing concept is process of developing the idea in to something concrete. 
Idea – Thought
 The initial movement where you see the solution of problem. (In terms of design) 
Theme – Happens around the concepts.
It’s visual representation.
  
  • Few concepts. 

  • Aesthetics deals with the characteristics, creation, meaning, and perception of beauty and taste. The study of aesthetics develops skills for the critical appreciation and analysis of art, culture, and nature.

  • Change is a conversion, transformation, or movement from one form, state, or value to another. Inquiry into the concept of change involved understanding and evaluating causes, processes, and consequences.

  • Communication is the exchange or transfer of signals, facts, ideas, and symbols. It requires a sender, a message, and an intended receiver. Communication involves the activity of conveying information or meaning. Effective communication requires a common ‘language’ (which may be written spoken or non-verbal).

  • Connections are links, bonds, and relationships among people, objects, organisms, or ideas.

  • Creativity is the process or ability to make or produce something new and original, often characterized by the use of imagination or divergent thinking. It may be evident in the process as well as the outcome, solution, or product.

  • Culture encompasses a range of learned and shared beliefs, values, interests, attitudes, products, ways of knowing, and patterns of behaviors created by human communities. The concept of culture is dynamic and organic.

  • Development is the act of process of growth, progress, or evolution, sometimes through iterative improvements.

  • Form is the shape and underlying structure of an entity or piece of work, including its organization, essential nature, and external appearance.

  • Global interaction focuses on the connections among individuals and communities, as well as their relationships with built and natural environments, from the perspective of the world as a whole.

  • Identity is the state or fact of being the same. It refers to the particular features, which define individuals, groups, things, eras, places, symbols, and styles. Identity can be observed, or it can be constructed, asserted, and shaped by external and internal influences.

  • Logic is a method of reasoning and a system of principles used to build arguments and reach conclusions.

  • Perspective is the position from which we observe situations, objects, facts, ideas, and opinions. Perspective may be associated with individuals, groups, cultures, or disciplines. Different perspectives often lead to multiple representations and interpretations.

  • Relationships are the connections and associations between properties, objects, people, and ideas – including the human community’s connections with the world in which we live. Any change in relationship bring consequences – some of which may occur on a small scale, while others may be far reaching, affecting large networks and systems like human societies and the planetary ecosystem.

  • Systems are sets of interacting or interdependent components. Systems provide structure and order in human, natural, and built environments. Systems can be static or dynamic, simple or complex.

  • Time, place, and space: The intrinsically-linked concept of time, space, and place refers to the absolute or relative position of people, objects, and ideas. ‘Time, place, and space’ focuses on how we construct and use our understanding of location (“where” and “when”).


Themes 

Place
Spirituality
Romance
Consumption
Stories
Loss and desire
Memory
Play
Structures
Protest
Ecology
Paradox
Compassion
Fantasy
Transformation
Systems
Boundaries 
History
Secret
Legacy 
fiction

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