IIT-B to create life-size sculptures
The first session of the Dandi Marchers Sculptures workshops was inaugurated on Thursday at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) by eminent Gandhian and Chairman of the Institute for Gandhian Studies, Wardha, Padma Bhushan, Justice C.S. Dharmadhikari. The Industrial Design Centre (IDC) of IIT-B has been entrusted with the task of making a memorial consisting of a life-size sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi and the 80 people who marched with him in the Dandi march, which will be placed at Dandi on completion.
The workshops are being organised as a part of the ‘National Dandi Salt Satyagraha Memorial’ — a project of the ministry of culture, Government of India for which IIT-B is the design coordination and implementing agency, in association with an international design team. “Under this project, full-size sculptures of all 80 people who marched will be created within the campus. The sculptures will be prepared by sculptors and students from across the globe selected by the institute for this purpose, under the guidance of IDC, IIT-B and expert sculptors. The participants will work within an overall visual framework, and make use of the 2-inch high reference images generated by our team,” said an IIT-B spokesperson.
The stoneware sculptures will be on permanent display at the Dandi Salt Satyagraha Memorial at Dandi, Gujarat. “This memorial should be able to make people experience the day, time and moment of the actual march and make them feel a part of it. It should evoke some spiritual feelings inside, just as it did to Mahatma Gandhi and those who participated in the march,” said Dr Sudarshan Iyengar, vice-chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth, who was also present for the inauguration.
The workshops are being organised as a part of the ‘National Dandi Salt Satyagraha Memorial’ — a project of the ministry of culture, Government of India for which IIT-B is the design coordination and implementing agency, in association with an international design team. “Under this project, full-size sculptures of all 80 people who marched will be created within the campus. The sculptures will be prepared by sculptors and students from across the globe selected by the institute for this purpose, under the guidance of IDC, IIT-B and expert sculptors. The participants will work within an overall visual framework, and make use of the 2-inch high reference images generated by our team,” said an IIT-B spokesperson.
The stoneware sculptures will be on permanent display at the Dandi Salt Satyagraha Memorial at Dandi, Gujarat. “This memorial should be able to make people experience the day, time and moment of the actual march and make them feel a part of it. It should evoke some spiritual feelings inside, just as it did to Mahatma Gandhi and those who participated in the march,” said Dr Sudarshan Iyengar, vice-chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth, who was also present for the inauguration.
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