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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SEA CONVERSATIONS
monsoon 2022
DRAWING OUT NATURES
The shared ecologies that human and more-than-human life inhabit in the face of today’s pervasive fossil fuel extraction, menacing deglaciation, rising oceanic acidification, spreading wildfires, intensifying suspended particulates, seeping toxins and amplified sound waves are cast as worlds in environmental ‘crises’ or climate ‘emergencies.’ We witness two widespread responses to the turbulences and uncertainties that threaten to transpose the shared ecologies of our worlds to a putative tipping point of ecological crises and climate emergencies. First, from their Enlightenment roots, the ‘nature-culture’ and ‘ecology-economics’ dualism has translated, over the course of the last three centuries, into the bureaucratic simplifications of complex knowledge systems into regulatory approaches to abate, regulate, protect, conserve and sustain our habitats. Such simplifications now find articulation visions based in large, centralized, quantitative data based, cartographic information systems to manage and re-engineer territories, resources and populations. Large data based information systems have found their zenith, so to speak, in calculations of carbon emissions whose monetary abstractions can now be traded for credit. Concurrently, there has been a proliferation of diverse activist engagements across the world whose protagonists aim to undo the injustices that, according to them, lie at the heart of the visions to regulate, manage and re-engineer territories. Advancing rights-based approaches to the environment, such activist engagements have been working towards strengthening or pushing back the forms of regulation, management and re-engineering embedded in the bureaucratic simplification of complex knowledge systems. As such, both tendencies expand or erode sociospatial claims on shared ecologies of the worlds that human and more-than-human life inhabit. This SEA Conversations lecture series is situated in a context shaped by the need to interrogate the expansion and erosion of sociospatial claims in the shared ecologies of the worlds that human and more-than-human life inhabit.
speakers
17.06.22 Fotini Takirdiki
01.07.22 Lindsay Bremner
15.07.22 K. Sakthivel & Vibhavari Sarangan
29.07.22 Hemang Mistry
12.08.22 Biju Bhaskar
26.08.22 Rohan Kale <<
09.09.22 Ignacio Farias
23.09.22 Maksud Ali Mondal
speakers
17.06.22 Fotini Takirdiki
01.07.22 Lindsay Bremner
15.07.22 K. Sakthivel & Vibhavari Sarangan
29.07.22 Hemang Mistry
12.08.22 Biju Bhaskar
26.08.22 Rohan Kale <<
09.09.22 Ignacio Farias
23.09.22 Maksud Ali Mondal


Session #6
Maharashtra Stepwells Campaign
by ROHAN Kale
on Fri., 26 August 2022 @ 5:30 PM IST
In
this lecture, Rohan Kale speaks about his process of documentation and
conservation of the several stepwells that are scattered in neglect across the
region of Maharashtra. Kale will speak about the role of step wells in medieval
societies and how they may be revived into their present economic fabric
through adaptive cultural strategies.
ABOUT
Rohan Kale studied at the Welingkar Institute of Management and has worked in the field of human resources. He is the pioneer of the Maharashtra Stepwells Campaign.
ABOUT
Rohan Kale studied at the Welingkar Institute of Management and has worked in the field of human resources. He is the pioneer of the Maharashtra Stepwells Campaign.

This is an online series. It has been co-curated and supported by the Shared Ecologies program of the Shyama Foundation along with the ongoing support of Urban Centre Mumbai.
The events are free and open to everyone across the world.
1st June
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13th June/ MON
SEA Assembly: The Sri Lanka economic and political crisis
SEA Assembly: The Sri Lanka economic and political crisis
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20th June/ MON
SEA Assembly: The Johnny Depp/ Amber Heard trial as a gateway into examining societal attitude towards women and defamation (of men)
SEA Assembly: The Johnny Depp/ Amber Heard trial as a gateway into examining societal attitude towards women and defamation (of men)
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27th June/ MON
SEA Assembly: The new scheme launched by government that is "Agnipath Scheme".
SEA Assembly: The new scheme launched by government that is "Agnipath Scheme".
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04th July/ MON
SEA Assembly: The question of ideology and power through the framework of institutions. Society’s react to the power shift ? The genealogy of political parties.
SEA Assembly: The question of ideology and power through the framework of institutions. Society’s react to the power shift ? The genealogy of political parties.
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11th
July/ MON
SEA Assembly: How does hunger mobilize in society?
SEA Assembly: How does hunger mobilize in society?
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15th
July/ FRI
DoN#3 Afforesting Urban landscape: Miyawaki forest
by K. Sakthivel & VIBHAVARI Sarangan
YOUTUBE LINK
DoN#3 Afforesting Urban landscape: Miyawaki forest
by K. Sakthivel & VIBHAVARI Sarangan

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18th
July/ MON
SEA Assembly: The absurd practices and superstitions in modern times.
SEA Assembly: The absurd practices and superstitions in modern times.
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25th
July/ MON
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Dhanukarwadi
SEA Assembly: The consequences of euro and dollar being equal for the first time in 20 years.
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Dhanukarwadi
SEA Assembly: The consequences of euro and dollar being equal for the first time in 20 years.
25th
July/ TUE
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Ghatkopar & Powai
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Ghatkopar & Powai
27th July/ WED
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Churchgate
Movie: Amelie (Green Studio)
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Churchgate
Movie: Amelie (Green Studio)
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29th July/ FRI
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Life is Beautiful (Green Studio)
DoN#4
Architectural Innovations in Bamboo: Designing for Mainstream Futures
by HEMANG Mistry
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YOUTUBE LINK
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Life is Beautiful (Green Studio)
DoN#4
Architectural Innovations in Bamboo: Designing for Mainstream Futures
by HEMANG Mistry

YOUTUBE LINK
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01st August/MON
SEA Assembly: The impact of social media as well as the Indian broadcasting media in our everyday lives.
SEA Assembly: The impact of social media as well as the Indian broadcasting media in our everyday lives.
02nd August/TUE
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Patterson (Green Studio)
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Patterson (Green Studio)
03rd August/WED
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Nostalgia for the Light (Green Studio)
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Nostalgia for the Light (Green Studio)
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05th August/ FRI
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Nashik Old City
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Nashik Old City
06th August/ SAT
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Nashik Old City
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Nashik Old City
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08th August/ MON
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Byculla
SEA Assembly: The role of the Council of Architecture in regulating education and professional practices in the country.
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Byculla
SEA Assembly: The role of the Council of Architecture in regulating education and professional practices in the country.
09th August/ TUE
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Dadar & Lower Parel
SEA Allied Design
Walk: Dadar & Lower Parel
10th August/ WED
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Everything Everywhere All at Once (AV Room)
Movie: Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon (Red Studio)
2:30pm
SEA Allied Design
Movie: Everything Everywhere All at Once (AV Room)
Movie: Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon (Red Studio)
2:30pm
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16th August/ TUE
SEA Allied Design
Movie: The Gleaners and I (AV Room)
SEA Allied Design
Movie: The Gleaners and I (AV Room)
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22th August/ MON
SEA Electives
SEA Electives
23th August/ TUE
SEA Electives
SEA Electives
24th August/ WED
SEA Electives
SEA Electives
25th August/ THU
SEA Electives
SEA Electives
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1st September
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09th September/FRI
DoN#7
by Ignacio Farias
DoN#7
by Ignacio Farias
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23th September/FRI
DoN#8
by Maksud Ali Mondal
DoN#8
by Maksud Ali Mondal
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1st October
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