SEA CITY is the School of Environment and Architecture’s outreach programme. SEA City organizes events, lectures, symposia and exhibitions in order to engage with the larger artistic and cultural discursive sphere within and outside the city. SEA City events are completely open to all public, and are attended by a diverse group of people including students, architects, professionals, academics and locals.

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Media Practices and Architecture




Friday, 5 December 2025,
6 pm to 8 pm

With the advent of new channels of information flows during the ‘90s such as broadcasting, internet and mobile technologies, architectural ideas came to be consumed in new ways at an increased intensity. Where on the one hand, the first generation architects in India were busily compiling monographs chronicling their oeuvres, new publishing markets emerged fuelling public debates on taste, global influence, and architectural production. After 2000, architecture journalism, independent magazines, and digital platforms amplified commentaries on the built environment in India. Moreover exhibitions gained prominence as discursive sites for staging architecture within the public domain. Institutions such as CEPT Archives, the Kochi Biennale Foundation, have given a distinctive push to architectural imagination within the space of the academy as well as experimental practice. Here, the object of architecture, and the role of architect has been centered more emphatically within the cultural sphere. Large architectural exhibitions over the last two decades such as The State of Architecture, The State of Housing or When is Space? have foregrounded archival thinking, spatial inquiry and public engagement within the architectural process. Across these shifts, media has moved from mere documentation to discourse, from objectifying buildings to mediating their cultural, political, and environmental lives - reshaping how architecture is produced, interpreted, and remembered in India. This panel reflects on how media practices—writing, archiving, and exhibition-making - have been actively partaking in the role of reshaping architectural discourse and spatial production in India.


discussants

Kaiwan Mehta
(curator, cultural theorist, Dean - BSSA)

Nisha Nair
(People Place Project)

Ruturaj Parikh
(Studio Matter)

moderated by
Anuj Daga
(SEA)


This lecture series is partially supported by Urban Centre Mumbai and is free and open to public.