SEA CITY is the School of Environment and Architecture’s outreach programme. SEA City organizes events, lectures, symposia and exhibitions in order to engage with the larger artistic and cultural discursive sphere within and outside the city. SEA City events are completely open to all public, and are attended by a diverse group of people including students, architects, professionals, academics and locals.
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Drawing Worlds
Monsoon 2024an online lecture series
Architects and their relationship to drawing has been central to pedagogy at SEA. The question is one that we contend with closely, and the unresolved nature, or rather the changing cast of our own understanding is the port of embarkation for the series of conversations in the upcoming semester.
The mainstay for all dialogue in this regard is that since the architect is tasked with imagining new form, their role is essentially about making a meaningful spatial encounter for the inhabitant. This would mean that they must develop a sensitivity, criticality and a humaneness in their approach to built form, and simultaneously think of form phenomenologically, and create an aesthetics of meaning and experience in this encounter. Architects and their positions as spatial practitioners come from a deep and laborious engagement with the drawing - which become a means to not simply describe form, but also inscribe its associated phenomena - sensorial, mental, psychological, environmental or social. Drawing is the language that mobilises form, thought and experience. It is rooted in the practice of image and image-making that stems from intertwined histories of visual cultures.
The Monsoon 2024 SEA Conversations looks at, and looks to various practices of drawing - here an expanded visual practice that gets produced through not only modes of seeing and observing, but also reading, listening, writing, talking - those that aid the process of critical interrogation and interpretation, that engage with the tactile and palpable - bodies and measures and quantifiable entities, as well as intangible aspects like social relationships, sensorial experiences, memories and meaning, temporalities and active imagination. These practices are set up as various horizons on the contemporary drawing landscape and conversation with them is meant to articulate for us new questions and methods regarding seeing and drawing, newer spatial interpretations and from them forms of engagement, and also a fresher politics of participation with our visual worlds.
speakers
all dates for 2024
5 July Rohini Devasher
19 July Afrah Shafiq
2 Aug Nora Wuttke <<
16 Aug Shrimanti Saha
30 Aug Sayan Skandarajah
27 Sept Parismita Singh
4 Oct Jasmine Nilani Joseph
session 3
Drawing Relationship: Drawing as Research Method
by Nora Wuttke
Drawing Relationship: Drawing as Research Method
by Nora Wuttke
on Friday, 2nd August 2024
at 6:00 pm IST
Zoom Link
In this talk, drawing and artmaking emerges as mode of empirical enquiry where the drawing itself is secondary to the act of drawing. Nora will be talking about sketching as research method, drawing on her experiences as a social anthropologist and as an architectural designer. What can the disciplines that she calls her home learn from each other? In this, she will take you on a joinery across media, from drawing Yangon General Hospital in Myanmar to an installation based on the same drawings to a current book project.
about
Nora is a social anthropologist and architectural designer, using her art practice as a mode of enquire in her academic research. She holds an architecture degree from the Technical University in Munich and a PhD in social anthropology from SOAS, University of London. Nora is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Durham University, Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute and Research Associate the SOAS, University of London. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of infrastructure, health, and energy bound together by her methodological interventions with artmaking.
This is an online lecture series, supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is free and open to everyone across the world.
about
Nora is a social anthropologist and architectural designer, using her art practice as a mode of enquire in her academic research. She holds an architecture degree from the Technical University in Munich and a PhD in social anthropology from SOAS, University of London. Nora is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Durham University, Fellow of the Durham Energy Institute and Research Associate the SOAS, University of London. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of infrastructure, health, and energy bound together by her methodological interventions with artmaking.
This is an online lecture series, supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is free and open to everyone across the world.
SEA PAVILION 2024
WINNER ANNOUNCED
We received a wonderful set of responses that ranged from those addressing the magic of the monsoon to working with its quotidian life and materialities to those addressing its human and more than human engagements.
The winning entry:
Three special mentions:
1) Majid Abidi for ‘Is it just about us?’
2) Ankita Dhal & Eshan Pradhan for ‘The Memory Workshop’
3) Rushimuni Prayogshala (Hrushikesh Hirulkar and Manish Shravane) for ‘The Paper Pavilion’
Details here
WINNER ANNOUNCED
We received a wonderful set of responses that ranged from those addressing the magic of the monsoon to working with its quotidian life and materialities to those addressing its human and more than human engagements. The winning entry:
Liminal Pavilion
by Rust Collective - Dhruv Sachala and Neel ShahThree special mentions:
1) Majid Abidi for ‘Is it just about us?’
2) Ankita Dhal & Eshan Pradhan for ‘The Memory Workshop’
3) Rushimuni Prayogshala (Hrushikesh Hirulkar and Manish Shravane) for ‘The Paper Pavilion’
Details here
