Bedekar Tejaswini Pralhad

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The studio started with the categorizing of craft-aligned practices with an aim to critically analyze them and to come to an understanding of what constitutes the span of ‘craft’. We categorized the craft practices according to diverse parameters, including manufacturing, collaboration, research etc (discussed in the following section). The final craft paradigms were arrived at based on ideology because as a studio we concluded that ideological underpinnings constitute important paradigms of craft-aligned practice. An ideology is a ‘set of beliefs and rules’, belonging to a particular group or set of people, born out of a ‘vision for the future’. It is dogmatic in nature and refuses to participate in discussions that do not agree with that ideology. All ideologies have an underlying philosophy, but not vice versa.