Sri Aurobindo's writing on education and on the nature of a living culture gives Sri Aurobindo Kala Sangam (SAKS) its philosophical floor. His conviction that the past's greatness is a promise of greater ideals is the operating premise. His three principles of true teaching — that nothing can be taught, that the mind must be consulted in its own growth; that education must move from the near to the far — form the deep structure of every program SAKS offers.
The greatness of the ideals of the past is a promise of greater ideals for the future. A continual expansion of what stood behind past endeavour and capacity is the one abiding justification of a living culture.
— Sri Aurobindo
The Design Methodology developed by Prof Kohei Sugiura of Japan to give contemporary expression to Asian Culture; provides the roadmap and a path to develop a new Indian design rooted in Indian Philosophy and Aesthetic Traditions, to delight the world again with the intellectual depth that generates its visuality.
Our two legs and their movement – the front leg advancing civilization, and the back leg standing on history and tradition – teach us how to live in the present. When we take another step, the front leg representing the advance of the civilization switches role and becomes the back leg, while the back leg representing history and tradition advances and becomes the front leg. The two legs take turn, and we walk.
– Kohei Sugiura
