Conversations on
contemporary building practices across South Asia
an infra-regional e-symposium between June-October 2020
South
Asian Architecture and Urbanism has remained an area of long-term investigation for the
School of Environment & Architecture. Along with the continuing historical
threads, cultural similarity and shared colonial past, South Asian countries
also struggle towards articulating a distinct criticality in shaping their
built environment today. How can architecture mediate cultural and political
forces that emerge from our common past? What role may architects and spatial
practitioners play in building relevant futures for South Asia? How can we
respond to the distinct social tectonics that shape our people and place? What
practices of the built environment from the past and present remain
unrecognized in South Asia and how can these be intelligently deployed into a
meaningful future? These are questions that the SEA City Conversation hopes to
address over the online semester-long series, titled “South Asian Landscapes”;
planned in the light of a virtual borderless environment compelled during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
In recognizing the virtue of such borderless suspension, geographical and political impediments can be bypassed towards establishing stronger dialogue and understanding of building practices in the South Asian region. Through a series of conversations curated across its adjoining borders in surveying the contemporary built environment, institutional networks towards nurturing a collaborative environment of research and intellectual exchange may be nurtured, that may help prepare a preliminary ground from where the spirit of post-colonial inquiry into architectural and urban research for the South Asia may be securely launched.
 86. A Repository of Nepal's Architectural Heritage by Roshan Mishra, Nepal 10th July 2020 |
YouTube Link #086
88.Building Bangladesh: from Pavilion-form to Landscape-form
by Kazi Ashraf, Bangladesh
31st July 2020
YouTube Link #088
89. A Path of Curiosity in Architecture
by Salauddin Ahmed, Bangladesh
07th August 2020
YouTube Link #089
90. Spatializing Sovereignity and Civil War in Sri Lanka
by Prof. Anoma Pieris, Sri Lanka
21st August 2020
YouTube Link #090
91. Vernacular Architecture of South Asia and their Spatial Logics: Insights from Sri Lanka
by Ranjit Dayaratne, Sri Lanka
28th August 2020
YouTube Link #091
92. Developing Cities in the Tropics: The need for a climate sensitive approach
by Narein Perera, Sri Lanka
28th August 2020
YouTube Link #092
93. The changing of informal settlements in Pakistan with speacial reference to Karachi
by Arif Hasan, Pakistan
11th September 2020
YouTube Link #093
94. Aabe Guum: Coastal myths and urban exceptionalism
by Yaminay Chaudhri, Pakistan
18th September 2020
YouTube Link #094
95. SEA-Studio Research Programme
25th September 2020
Day 1
YouTube Link #095a
Day 2
YouTube Link #095b