No, NO:: apparently I confused things, upon your first posting, not having any word abaut bamboo:: and since I am 86 years of age, My memory is "not what it used tobe". But NO you have not been forgotten, nor dropped off the list... all you postings have come thru via Bamboo_Plantations, Yahoo group.. I may have further confused things by NOT forwarding ones that were personal to ME. as no need to get into the B_P archives.. But I am forwarding this one, with I hope this note.. I've been doing this for 20 years, and I still don't understand all the there to know ergards these Yahoo groups..
Peace and blessing to all. Kinder C in Texas
In a message dated 7/14/2015 11:48:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time, bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com writes:
Dear Kinder CI guess I need to introduce myself to this forum once again not having posted to this group for several years now. I have been a member here for several year now but have not posted for a long time. I just assumed that we somehow belonged here having used design thinking for about forty years now with deep focus on bamboo applications it would be automatically recognised, but I now can see that out of sight is out of mind!Yes we have done a lot of work on bamboo using design thinking and in India these demonstrations have now begun to have a real impact on the ground. I list below the bamboo based project reports and design research case studies that are available for free download which I have authored over the past several years and I invite you to look at these. I have been a professor at the National Institute of Design n Ahmedabad and we have led the design research in bamboo and I have posted all my papers on bamboo that have been published and presented at international conferences from my Oita Japan keynote of 1991 and my World Bamboo Conference lecture from Bali, Indonesia in 1995 all the way to our UNDP advisory projects from 1998 to 2004 in Northeast India, and all of these use design thinking as their driver for social and economic development of rural people in India.There are lessons that we have learned over the years and all of these have been shared in the spirit of open source sharing and all of these have been available online for several years now so I just assumed that the bamboo forum would be informed about this. We started working on bamboo research in 1977 and did our ethnographic field work in the Northeastern region of India in 1979. One full yer of backpacking research with two great colleagues, Nilam Iyer and Ghanshyam Pandya resulted in the publication of our first book on the traditional wisdom of the exciting r egion. We studied in detail over 400 baskets, huge number of houses and bridges as well as hundreds of accessories made with bamboo and in our book we have hundreds of photographs and over 400 detailed hand drawn construction details that is intended to capture the traditional wisdom for posterity. Our book is titled "Bamboo & Cane Crafts of Northeast India" and I have provided a free download link for this book here below for you to have a look and see how design thinking works when put on a long fuse in a sustained manner. Since its publication in 1986 our teams have carried out over 500 product development projects using bamboo in order to demonstrate its value as a strategy for resolving the huge problem of abject poverty in rural areas of the Northeast as well as in areas around India where we have worked over the years.I was invited by the UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to conceptualise a programme for bamboo based devel opment here in India and starting in 1998 This project has delivered sustained results over the years. We set up a school to teach design and design thinking to bamboo craftsmen, technologists and farmers in Agartala, Tripura State in Northeast India with UNDP assistance in 2001 and that school has produced hundreds of very fine crafts persons as well as catalysed huge development activities across India through demonstration of e value of design. We worked in Tripura at Katlamara with a group of farmers and craftsmen and today we have standing crops of over 100 hectares of carefully farmed bamboo that is used for making the furniture that we designed and trained our crafts producers to make with low investment and high quality. These experiments and product design case studies are contained in our publications listed below, all available for free download by anyone who may be interested. Also included is a business plan for setting up a bamboo based micro industry to produc e my furniture designs that are 100 percent organic using our perfected joint systems called the DDP Joint, (drill, dowel and pin) all using bamboo exclusively for its construction. This was a huge break through since we had used simple drills to carry out this precise construction ensuring quality in the product made by even semi-skilled crafts persons. Do take a look at these product documentations in our two CD ROMs INCLUDED IN THE DOWNLOAD LIST ENCLOSED BELOW.Handmade in Indiadropbox link 337 mb pdf filehttps://www.dropbox.com/l/ZJFksATFXuuA1Chk3gsJcsKatlamara Chalo Book low Resdropbox link for pdf file 40 mbBamboo and Cane Crafts of Northeast IndiaDropbox link for pdf file 60 mbKatlamara Business Plandropbox link for pdf file 3 mbBamboo Initiatives Cataloguedropbox link for pdf file 25 mbBangkok_Creativity and Design with Bamboo showdropbox link for pdf file 8 mbBamboo Boards & Beyond_CD ROMZip file of interactive CD ROM 500+ mbBeyond Grassroots CD ROMZip file of interactive CD ROM 500+ mbBCDI Agartala Feasibility Reportdropbox link for pdf file 250 kbBCDI Agartala Training Curriculum 2004dropbox link for pdf file 15 mbBCDI Agartala Curriculum Review 2004dropbox link for pdf 20 mbUNDP Vision Report for National Bamboo Mission 1999dropbox link for pdf 3.6 mbAchievements of NID BCDI 2004dropbox link for pdf 80 kbI INVITE THIS LIST TO LOOK AT THESE RESOURCES AND USE THEM FOR DEVELOPMENT ACTION IN THE DAYS AHEAD.I hope thus note has clarified why the work on design thinking is connected to bamboo and development in my mind. I look forward to comments and inputs from the list members in the days ahead. If you have any difficulty in downloading any of these resources do get back to me and I can provide alternate links from my personal Dropbox account which work well at most times, especially for the bigger files such as Handmade in India book which is about 336 mb in size for the PDF file whil e others arr considerably smaller.With warm regardsM P Ranjanfrom my iPad at home on the NID Ahmedabad campus7 July 2015 at 7.30 am ISTProf M P RanjanIndependent Academic, AhmedabadAdjunct Professor (Design) Ahmedabad UniversityAuthor of blog : http://www.designforindia.comArchive of papers : https://ahduni.academia.edu/RanjanMPSent from my iPad
On 06-Jul-2015, at 5:36 am, Txbooguru@aol.com [bamboo-plantations] <bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com> wrote:I of course don't mean to be rude, but I have read this posting all the way thru, and I do not see the word "Bamboo" anywhere. Hence, My question of "what is all this REALLY about?? If not bamboo, then it does not belong on this forum..Peace & blessings. Kinder C.. B_P Moderator in TexasIn a message dated 7/5/2015 1:23:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time, bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com writes:am seeking your suggestions for books and papers that could form a core reading list for students as well as faculty from nine colleges of Ahmedabad University who will be taking my new course which I have outlined very briefly below. I would appreciate if
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