(Paper) IIT CEED Previous Year Question Paper - 2006

Question-2.

Answer any one question (A or B)

A. There are different kinds of torches for different uses. Generally all torches use dry cells as power source for illumination. This power source can also be used for incorporating other functions.

Innovate and design a torch with more than one function.

State your perception of the problem and the opportunities that your solution provides. Present your concept through sketches, showing the overall form, the different functions and its construction details - either through open view, sectional view or exploded diagram.
Write FIVE points about your final design solution in the space provided on page 7. Your solution will be evaluated on the basis of your imaginative combination of functions, the overall form developed on the basis of it and your ability to express your design graphically.

B. The Government of India is developing underwater tourism as a new attraction for tourists in India. Design a mascot for the ‘Department of Underwater Tourism’. The mascot should reflect Indian culture, features of underwater imagery and playfulness.

This mascot will be used in various contexts, in colour, black & white, in two dimensional as well as three dimensional form.
Illustrate your design for varied applications of the mascot, taking into consideration different emotions and different contexts of use.
Write down how your design addresses the nature of various applications in FIVE points in the space provided on page 7.
Your design will be evaluated on your creativity, originality and your ability to transpose your design solution successfully to multiple usages.
The Mascot of ‘Air-India’ is given here as an example.

Question-3.

Develop EIGHT different creative and unconventional ways of using discarded / damaged compact discs (CDs). You may use one or more or a part of the CD, you may also deform the CDs to suit your design. Sketch your designs in the spaces provided below and write the use. Evaluation will be based on creative thinking, varities in application and overall form.

Question-4

Identify TEN major problems in the toilet of a second class sleeper compartment that a passenger would encounter. The problems can be related to ease and comfort of use, safety, hygiene, looks etc. Write down in brief these problems in the space provided below. You will be evaluated on your ability to critically observe.

Question-5

Read the following passage carefully and write a five-point summary in the space provided on the adjoining page.

The terms ‘disability’ and ‘handicap’ are not synonymous. A physically disabled person is not necessarily handicapped. A disability is a condition of impairment having an objective aspect that can usually be described by a physician and a handicap is the cumulative result of the obstacles which disability interposes between the individual and his maximum functional level.

A handicap has to be assessed according to the demands of the situation in which the individual finds himself. Even a severe disability need not in specific circumstances be a handicap. A blind person is not handicapped in work which does not require vision.

A chairbound person is not handicapped if the work he is doing can be undertaken from a wheelchair and does not demand rapid locomotion. Conversely a handicap may be found where there is no medically identifiable disability. A person whose ambition it is to be a great athelete may regard himself as handicapped if his physical abilities are only average. A physical attribute is therefore a physical handicap only where it constitutes a barrier to the achievement of specific goals.

Apart from any confusion arising from a lack of appreciation of the distinction between the disability and handicap, it ought also to be recognised that there are hazards in talking about ‘disabled people’ or ‘the disabled’. A physically disabled person- unless he is blind, deaf, totally paralysed and mentally deficient - he is not unable to do anything. He is also a physically abled person - there are things which he can do as well as things he cannot do.

It is therefore more responsible to speak of ‘a person with a disability’. The distinction may appear trivial but it is important. The hazard of using the term ‘disabled person’ is that by emphasising the inferiority of a person in terms of physique, judgement of unrelated personality traits may be affected. The tendency to exaggerate the effects of a disability and to relate all aspects of behaviour to it can too easily lead to an evaluation of the individual as being generally inferior.

Question-7.

Represent the sequence of happenings given below, using visual imagery. The task is to illustrate the event with minimum text and maximum visuals. Your work will be evaluated on the basis of clarity of communication, quality of visuals and narrative ability.

Question-8.

Write a short note (in two or three sentences) about each of the personalities listed below. 1. Laurie Baker 2. Mahesh Bhupati 3. Manjit Bawa 4. Bejan Daruwala 5. Smriti. Z. Irani