THROUGH A GLASS, OBLIQUELY
20-22 NOVEMBER 2025
Through a glass, obliquely is a three-day symposium that aims to foster conversations around new ways of understanding the relationship between life and space, and the insights that can be drawn from them. The discussions will be grounded in the spatial inquiries and arguments developed by final-year undergraduate students at SEA. These inquiries can be broadly organised into five thematic areas. The first explores the spatial practices through which rigid spatio-temporal forms are made mutable, adaptable, and soft, allowing for new forms of individual and collective life. The second examines what spatial studies of interactions and frictions between human and more-than-human entities can teach us about the anthropocentric assumptions that shape architectural thought and practice. The third considers how urbanisation unfolds across different geographies, transforming cultural forms and the spatial lives that inhabit them. The fourth set of inquiries explore the relationships between morphology, behavioral patterns, and urban life. Finally, the fifth looks at possible methods for studying existing spatial conditions so that space can be understood through more fluid, relational, and non-binary ways of thinking.
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Dr. Kush Patel is an Associate Professor and leads the MA Contemporary Art Practice at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bengaluru, where they also direct and steward the Just Futures Co-lab and head the overall MA Program.
Soumini Raja is a Professor and Head of the Department at Avani Institute of Design, Kerala, and Chairperson of the Board of Studies in Design at the University of Calicut, India. She co-founded Studio Commune and serves as its Director of Research.
Arul Paul is an architect, educator and scholar, currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Nitte Institute of Architecture in Mangalore.
with the faculty of SEA.
Join us on
20-22 NOVEMBER 2024
at
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT & ARCHITECTURE
Eksar Road, CKP Colony, Borivali West, Mumbai - 400 091
This event is free and open to the public. The event has been partly supported by Urban Centre Mumbai.
A SEA City Initiative.
Download PDF Schedule Docket
Dr. Kush Patel is an Associate Professor and leads the MA Contemporary Art Practice at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Bengaluru, where they also direct and steward the Just Futures Co-lab and head the overall MA Program.
Soumini Raja is a Professor and Head of the Department at Avani Institute of Design, Kerala, and Chairperson of the Board of Studies in Design at the University of Calicut, India. She co-founded Studio Commune and serves as its Director of Research.
Arul Paul is an architect, educator and scholar, currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Nitte Institute of Architecture in Mangalore.
with the faculty of SEA.
Join us on
20-22 NOVEMBER 2024
at
SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT & ARCHITECTURE
Eksar Road, CKP Colony, Borivali West, Mumbai - 400 091
This event is free and open to the public. The event has been partly supported by Urban Centre Mumbai.
A SEA City Initiative.
Download PDF Schedule Docket