Festival Of Ideas - Day 1
Festival of Ideas - Day 1
06/10/22
The Festival of Ideas as an event is an innovative creation
of the Editorial Board of Kasturba Medical College. It is an annual fest
conducted to showcase talent across the college through forms of art like
photography and writing, with events based around the same. These were based on
the firm belief that medicine is incomplete without an understanding and
appreciation for the fine arts.
The first day of the Festival began with the inauguration of
the event, which lasted for about an hour, from 10 to 11 AM. For short, the
Festival of Ideas (FoI) had events and a workshop that lasted over 5 hours,
starting from 4 PM till 9 PM, based either in or around Interact Halls at KMC.
The first event to mark the start of this Fest was Photo Quest, a photography-based treasure hunt. It involved and relied on problem-solving skills required to figure out the locations and clues and on photography to click pictures based on the given prompt. This event took place across four different locations across the KMC campus, Interact Hall, where it began; the Library located in the EDU Building, The Stage, followed by MAP, then Butterfly Café, and came full circle by ending in Interact Hall, where it began.
There were 33 teams,
with two participants per team, with different chosen team names. They had an
hour and 15 minutes to speed through and find the other locations, based on
riddles in the form of clues, where one clue led to the next, and the same for
finding each location.
Scanning a QR code at each location leads to the next clue,
and one team member from each time must sign on the given sheet for the QR code
to the next location clue, which was solving a riddle. Groups of two or three
persons from the event committee were sent to each of these locations, with
strict instructions not to reveal any information that might help the teams of
participants. Teams were constantly on the run to figure out the following
location and beat the ticking timer.
The top two teams won a cash prize of 500 and 300 rupees,
respectively.
A workshop on Graphic Design followed this exciting and exhilarating event, which lasted an hour. The workshop was named Masked Out, and it started at 5:30 pm inside room 1b at Interact. The registration fee for this workshop and the events for the first day was only 40 rupees. It was a very informative workshop covering the fundamentals and principles of Graphic Design. Some basics, like elements of graphic design, how to make a design appealing, and the elements of graphic design, were explained very well with the use of practical examples.
As time progressed, the workshop moved to the concept of typography and critical concepts like the psychology of fonts, with regards to their use and effect, as well as the different kinds of fonts that were visited. Key concepts like font weights, font sizes, contrast, alignment, hierarchy, balance (be it symmetrical or asymmetrical), and the use of colors for a transition, such as for making posters, along with concepts of positive and negative space and movement of text were all explained in detail.
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| The Graphic Design Workshop |
The very informative workshop was followed by the last event for the day, Escape Room, for which students had been waiting with held breaths. It began at 6:30 in the evening. There were many teams of two participants each.
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| Participants listening closely to the instructions for the Escape room |
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| Tarot card reading stall |
The event lasted an hour. The teams had 40 minutes to solve
all the riddles and puzzles in two rooms, given that they started off in one
room before moving on to the next. There were nine different stations in both
rooms.
Only the top 4 teams that solved all the riddles in both
rooms were allowed to go into the hidden third room. Cash prizes of up to 1500
rupees were given to the winning teams.
Day 1 definitely set the tone for an exciting day 2 the next day!
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