To create awareness about The Theory of Multiple Intelligences proposed by Howard Gardener

1. Putting
‘Multiple
Intelligences’
to use
By Prabodh Sirur

2. The three takeaways from this session
1. A new learning - ‘The theory of multiple intelligences’
2. ‘Multiple Intelligences’ around the world
3. Case study - Mindtree Kalinga, Bhubaneshwar

3. What is intelligence
capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, grasping
truths, relationships, facts, meanings….

4. Assessment of ‘intelligence’
1. First mental testing centre - Francis Galton, 1882
2. First IQ test - Binet-Simon, 1905
3. Addition of non-intellective attributes - Wechsler, 1939
4. The theory of multiple intelligences - Gardner, 1984

5. The theory of multiple
intelligences

6. Multiple intelligences is
- Different ways of processing
information
- Different ways of presenting
information

7. Pele
Oprah Winfrey
Shakespeare
Einstein
Darwin
Confucious
Van Gogh
Mozart

8. Examples of MI
profiles

9. Verbal/ Linguistic
- Copywriter
- Historian
- Lawyer
- Teacher
- Author/Poet

10. Logical/ Mathematical
- Analyst
- Banker
- Engineer
- Researcher
- Trader

11. Visual/ Spatial
- Architect
- City-planner
- Photographer
- Sculptor
- Painter

12. Musical/ Rhythmic
- Composer
- Singer
- Voice coach
- Acoustic engineer
- Music producer

13. Bodily/ Kinesthetic
- Athlete
- Dancer
- Sign language interepreter
- Physical therapist
- Drama actor

14. Naturalist
- Explorer
- Chef
- Zoologist
- Wild-life photographer
- Conservationist

15. Interpersonal
- Diplomat
- Salesman
- Coach
- Social worker
- Politician

16. Intrapersonal
- Psychologist
- Philosopher
- Personal counseler
- Energy healer
- Writer

17. Multiple Intelligences around
the world

18. MI around the world
First MI school - Key Learning Community, Indianapolis, 1985
MI awards - Philippines
MI theme park - Denmark
MI based training institute - Mindtree Kalinga

19. Case study - Mindtree
Kalinga

20. Opened in Sept 2015
- Spread across 20 acres
- One million bricks
- Water from 14.7 Mn Ltr
rain harvested pond
- Ideator - Subroto Bagchi
- Sponsor - Parthasarathy
- Program architect -
Anindya Maitra
- Architect - CnT Architects

21. Mindtree Kalinga
The brief - “Create an institute to build leaders for beyond
2020”
The four No-Nos
● No classrooms
● No teachers
● No curriculum
● No assessment

22. Mindtree Kalinga
Design principles
● Physical environment
● Digital environment
● Intellectual environment
● Emotional environment

23. Mindtree Kalinga - environments
Physical and digital environment
● A cafeteria is designed to also eat (!)
● Every space is a meeting room
● All spaces are collapsible spaces
● “Internet of Things” enabled

24. Mindtree Kalinga - environments
Intellectual and emotional environments
● Who should live together - (increase diversity to the
maximum)
● Proximity to leaders
● Network/communities
● One good deed
● Me to World

25. The jewels I picked up from Prem, Architect
● How can one structure space in a manner that permits its
meaningful ritualised occupation?
● What kind of architecture allows you, over a period of time,
to inhabit it in a style to look back on it with affection?
● (When designing a house), my mind wanders across the
placement of bookshelves, steps you can sit on, window
seats, attics, spaces for gathering, spaces for contemplation
- all elements that show a potential for the absorption of
memory

26. What next

27. There is no MI home in the world
Why won’t you be the first to design one?