Graduates’ Symposium, 2023-24

IN SEARCH OF PRACTICE

14 February 2024, 4:00PM


Participants

Amay Raskar  | Brick School of Architecture, Pune Jhanvi Multani | Indubhai Parekh School of Architecture, Rajkot
Drashti Kanabar  | CEPT, Ahmedabad
Vibhu Viraj | LS Raheja College of Architecture, Mumbai

moderated by School of Environment and Architecture (Anuj Daga)

In 2024, SEA’s graduate forum invites responses to the inability of trained architects and architectural practices to provide services to more than 90 percent of India’s population. Amidst entanglements of professional demands and habitational requirements, learnt skills and field practices, academic standards and everyday negotiations, this year, the Graduates’ Forum assembles young graduates in search of a practice to consider dilemmas of formulating spatial practices and methods for engaging with the majority. It does so with the awareness that while one may feel lost amidst entanglements, the mode of searching leads the seeker to deviate, diverge, pause, diversify, interrogate, and in turn invent new ways of practising. In other words, the space of searching amidst entanglements is a rich platter of possibilities.

venue
School of Environment & Architecture
CKP Colony, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091

Architects’ Roundtable 2023-24

COMMONING ARCHITECTURE

15 February 2024, 4:00PM


Participants

Jasmine Saluja | PLURAL
Ketaki Tare | Bombay61
Mayuri Sisodia | MAD[E] in Mumbai
Pranav Naik | Studio Pomegranate
Rohit Shinkre | Rohit Shinkre Architects
Samir D’Monte | SDM Architects
Urmi Kenia | Urban Center Mumbai
moderated by School of Environment and Architecture (Rupali Gupte, Dushyant Asher)


The annual Architects’ Roundtable at SEA invites practitioners and pedagogues to pursue a focused discussion on relevant and contemporary issues in the field of architecture. Commoning Architecture, its 2023-24 iteration, invites six practitioners to reflect on the role of architects and architectural practices in assembling different forms of commons. Our provocation is in response to the ongoing partitioning of urban space and its resources through hard boundaries of privatisation, segregation, surveillance, displacement, enclaving, and zoning. The roundtable discussion will be facilitated by SEA with the dual aim of scrutinising how existing architectural practices perpetuate existing divisions and drawing out lessons from inventive experiments undertaken by spatial practitioners.

venue
School of Environment & Architecture
CKP Colony, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091