NEXT on SEA Conversations

The Bookmakers

Winter 2024-25


At SEA, the uncertain and unclear relationship between texts and space has been one of the core focuses of discussion and exploration. We have experimented with drawings and performances as bridges to create new possibilities for these connections. In this series, we invite people who work with texts - writers, translators, biographers, and even book collectors - to help us delve deeper into this relationship. In many ways, they capture the energies of their subjects, offering new meanings through their texts. The series will include book launches, readings by authors and translators, and an exhibition of a book collection.


speakers

Nov 15, 2024.
Sonal Mithal (co-authored with Arul Paul)
A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive: Lucknow Queerscapes (Routledge, 2024)

Dec 10, 2024.
Nihal Perera
People’s Spaces: Coping, Familiarising, Creating (Routledge, 2016)

Dec 20, 2024.
Prasad Khanolkar
Passages of Play in Urban India: People, Media, Objects and Spaces in Mumbai’s Slum Localities, (Routledge, 2023)

Jan 17, 2025.
Mustansir Dalvi
Charles Correa: Citizen Charles (Niyogi Books, 2024)

Feb 21, 2025.
V Ramaswami
Translator of four volumes of short fiction of the anti-establishment and experimental Bangla writer, Subimal Misra: The Golden Gandhi Statue from America (2010), Wild Animals Prohibited (2015), Two Anti-Novels (2019), and The Earth Quakes (2024), all published by Harper Perennial.

Mar 07, 2025.
Shveta Sarda
Trickster City (Viking 2010) and translation of the book Mayyadas ki Mari / Mansion by Bhisham Sahani (Penguin, 2016)

Mar 21, 2025.
Priyesh Gothwal
BOOKSHOW on artists’ book (19-21 March)


this lecture series is supported by the Urban Centre Mumbai. It is open to everyone across the world.
visit www.sea-city.in for event details

A SEA City initiative

session 4

Charles Correa: Citizen Charles

by Mustansir Dalvi

on Friday, January 17, 2025,
at 6:00 PM IST

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

One of the first biographies on Charles Correa (1930-2015) written by Mustansir Dalvi, this monograph explores the many Indian and international influences that shaped Correa’s life. Correa’s life-work, Dalvi argues, is significant because of his zeal for urban equity in post-independence India, to uphold the claims of every Indian citizen to egalitarian housing and access to public space. The book chronicles Correa’s enduring successes as an architect, as well as the bitter disappointments he faced in his advocacy for an egalitarian and uniquely Indian urbanism.


about

Mustansir Dalvi is an architect and professor of architecture, poet and translator, author and editor, columnist and curator, academician and semiotician, urban commentator and historian. Mustansir Dalvi was Professor of Architecture at Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai, from 2003 until his retirement in January 2024. He has been part of syllabus formation committees for nearly three decades, most currently he designed the Graduate Syllabus for Metropolitan Architecture (de-novo). He is currently a trustee of Art Deco Mumbai.

SEAPAVILION 2024

Liminal Pavilion

by RUST Collective
opening

on Wednesday, December 11, 2024,
at 4:00 PM IST

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

SEA Pavilion experiments ephemeral architectural forms embodying radical and sustainable new ways to think about the question of shelter in a time of climate change. On its 10th anniversary, the School of Environment and Architecture, along with the above mentioned collaboratiors, invited proposals from architects and artists below the age of 30, to conceive of pavilions and other ephemeral architectural forms to conceive of an emotional, affective response to the changing monsoon in a city like Mumbai as the key aspect in their design response. 30 chosen proposals shall be exhibited in a specially designed winning entry built as a ‘shelter for shelters’ on the SEA campus.


opening programme
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LIMINAL PAVILION
by Rust Collective

SHELTER OF SHELTERS
an exhibition of all the received pavilion design entries
during 11-24 December 2024, 10 am to 6 pm

along with a performance / reading of Kalidas’s
Meghdoota by students of SEA

on 11 Deceber 2024
4 pm to 7 pm

join us at
School of Environment & Architecture
Suvidyalaya, Eksar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091


This event is free and open to everyone.