Architects’ Roundtable 2024-25
Pedagogues’ Meet
Pedagogues’ Meet 2024-25
Participants
Amitava Roy, IIEST
Anuj Daga, SEA
Apurva Talpade, SEA
Belinda Judith, CARE
Dipti Bhaindarkar, SEA
Dushyant Asher, SEA
Kiran Kumar, WCFA
Kush Patel. Shristi
Manasvi Patil, SEA
Milind Mahale, SEA
Parul Roy, SPA Delhi
Prasad Khanolkar, SEA
Prasad Shetty, SEA
Pratyush Shankar, Navrachna
Rohit Mujumdar, SEA
Rupali Gupte, SEA
Sankalpa, CEPT
Saptarshi Kolay, IIT Roorkee
Soumini Raja, AVANI
Vinod Aranha, NITTE
The past decade has highlighted critical challenges for architectural institutions, prompting a need for transformation. A fivefold increase in the number of graduating students each year, the Supreme Court’s interpretation that architects are no longer essential in building production, a sharp decline in new student enrollments, and the significantly lower pay of architectural professionals compared to their counterparts in other fields have collectively created an atmosphere of precarity and vulnerability. Additionally, the absence of robust humanities and ethics courses, inadequate teacher training, restrictive regulatory frameworks imposed by state agencies, and the overwhelming demands of private management have further exacerbated this precariousness for educators and institutions. How might the next twenty years unfold for architectural academia, the discipline and the world at large? What steps can we take not only to survive but to be relevant? And most importantly, can we find ways to address these challenges collaboratively? This meeting of architectural educators aims to engage with these questions and work a path forward together.
Participation in this event is by invitation only.
CAN WE DO THINGS TOGETHER?
13-14 February 2025Participants
Amitava Roy, IIEST
Anuj Daga, SEA
Apurva Talpade, SEA
Belinda Judith, CARE
Dipti Bhaindarkar, SEA
Dushyant Asher, SEA
Kiran Kumar, WCFA
Kush Patel. Shristi
Manasvi Patil, SEA
Milind Mahale, SEA
Parul Roy, SPA Delhi
Prasad Khanolkar, SEA
Prasad Shetty, SEA
Pratyush Shankar, Navrachna
Rohit Mujumdar, SEA
Rupali Gupte, SEA
Sankalpa, CEPT
Saptarshi Kolay, IIT Roorkee
Soumini Raja, AVANI
Vinod Aranha, NITTE
The past decade has highlighted critical challenges for architectural institutions, prompting a need for transformation. A fivefold increase in the number of graduating students each year, the Supreme Court’s interpretation that architects are no longer essential in building production, a sharp decline in new student enrollments, and the significantly lower pay of architectural professionals compared to their counterparts in other fields have collectively created an atmosphere of precarity and vulnerability. Additionally, the absence of robust humanities and ethics courses, inadequate teacher training, restrictive regulatory frameworks imposed by state agencies, and the overwhelming demands of private management have further exacerbated this precariousness for educators and institutions. How might the next twenty years unfold for architectural academia, the discipline and the world at large? What steps can we take not only to survive but to be relevant? And most importantly, can we find ways to address these challenges collaboratively? This meeting of architectural educators aims to engage with these questions and work a path forward together.
Participation in this event is by invitation only.
SCHEDULE
SESSION 1:
13 February 2025 | 14.30 - 19.00
- The Crises & Possibilities
- Joint Research
- Collaborative Studios, Programmes and Other Pedagogic Programmes
- Joint Postgraduate Programme and Teacher Training Programmes
SESSION 2:
14 February 2025 | 09.00 - 13.30
- Journal on Pedagogic Experiments
- Other Joint Initiatives (teachers’ meet, audits, exhibitions, awards, etc.)
- The next steps - charter, calendar, administrative and logistical issues, etc.
