Sachu Sudhish

CFP001

U23204

TThe CEPT Foundation Programme studio is an introduction for students fresh out of school to the rigor and work habits required by an undergraduate degree at CEPT University. The studio is conceptualized as a series of sequentially planned exercises, through which students develop skills and abilities, which are then deployed to address increasingly complex problems falling in four broad categories: visualize and draw, make and learn, anayse and interpret and conceptualise and represent. The exercises are designed to provide foundational skills for students across disciplines at CEPT, between which they maintain a balance. They also reflect an understanding that at the foundation level, these skills overlap to a large extent, and a varied array is of benefit to all students. The studio is taught through intensive 1–2 week long modules, focusing on a particular skill or ability, and a process that emphasizes ongoing feedback in addition to expert faculty lectures.


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In the How Things Work module, a product, i.e, hand plane was explored more and the parts and its functions were mentioned crisp in the sheets

The Technical Drawing sheets had the models of assemblage and matchbox technically drawn, with even small details like cut planes and projection lines were shown for easy communication with the reader

A set of materials including card paper, micro concrete, mill board, clay, etc were explored while making these models skillfully

The skills of gauging was put into test here, which even allowed me to gauge big spaces like North Canteen inside the CEPT premises

Various materials were studied and its properties were experimented in the module of Material Experience and Methods

Ordering Principles gave me an opportunity to see more about my surroundings in a different manner by learning different principles and arrangements of things around us

Being one of the first exercises in the program, Freehand Drawing laid the foundation to my drawing skills

Deciphering and Interpreting styles is the module were I was able to study and learn more about the artist Frank Stella and his style and interpret it in my own way to give the desired outputs for the exercise

Studying more about Typeface helped me to segregate and understand the font that I see around. This module taught me the properties of fonts and how important is a font to the design world

Color Theory was a different kind of experience where I was able to interact with colors and learn about them in a more structural manner