Anshika Bhatt

IR2022

Crafting the Journey of Experience

Project Crafting the journey of Experience is about study and reimagining the crafts of kutch. The journey starts from designing the story book for kids to mapping the experience of kutch craft and taking inspiration from it a game was developed. The journey includes a lot of workshops and site visit to kutch and surendranagar. This journey includes several learnings of  traditional craft and the artisans of Gujarat as well as experience of designing a board game inspired from the craft learnt for children's and make them aware about the traditional crafts of Gujarat.


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(Re) imagining the play was all about designing the game for kids. Packaging of the game is one of the most important part of the game design as kids are more attracted to it. Thus, it includes the images of game.

Game poster and packaging shows the elements present in the overall game. The game poster has all the process boards as well as the main board shown in it. While the packing consists of illustrations added to the board and some of the illustration of cards.

(Re) imagining the play was all about designing the game for kids. All the components of the game such as game board, process board. block as token, dice, tool cards, currency and puzzles are shown.

(Re) imagining the play was all about designing the game for kids and one of the most important component of the game was thematic booklet which have information about the craft chosen and rule book which have rules written to it.

Mapping the experience of craft was all about learning the craft of kutch which includes the uses of colours in the craft depicted in the form of postcards.

Mapping the experience of craft was all about learning crafts of kutch and depict it in a narrative map. The narrative map was made on the basis of the colour theme of the craft in A2 size.

A story book was designed for children's of age 7 to 12 years. The story was about the king of the kingdom Santok and his three sons . The story name was "A story in a story" which was about telling the truth. As per the name story includes three sub stories in it.

Crafting my life was all about the journey lived in the time of corona. Warli was the craft by which my corona journey was depicted.

Crafting the Journey of Experience included a lot of workshops like typecraft, gond,ajrakh, mata ni pachedi and tye and die. All the learnings and experience has been tried to depict.

Crafting the Journey of Experience included field visit to kutch and surendranagar. From which few of its photos and learning in the form of diary is shown.