session 2

Migration, Material, Memory

Friday, 24 July 2026,
5 pm to 7 pm

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

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AUR (Architecture Urbanism Research) aims to create meaning by understanding the production of architecture through migration, material, and memory. We craft histories of the future thoughtfully excavating histories of the past. AUR, और in Hindi, signifies the ‘other’ and signals a ‘prompt’. Architecture is perceived as a responsibility, and history as an instrument to facilitate cultural continuity, social equity, and material specificity. Architecture is seen as an intentional dialogue between space and time on one hand and material and labour on the other. The production of space remains a highly political act, contested through forces of migration, labour, climate, and colonialism.


discussants

Aurgho Jyoti
Aurgho Jyoti is the Founder and Creative Director of AUR (Architecture Urbanism Research), an architecture practice based in New Delhi and New York focused on cultural, social, and institutional projects. AUR’s recent awards include the AIA New York New Practice Award, the AIA Long Island Archi Award, and the India Humanitarian Hub Award. Aurgho was educated as an architect at Harvard, Cornell, and SPA Delhi and has worked in Pritzker Laureate offices including SOM, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Gehry Technologies, and Studio Fuksas. His work has been exhibited at the Centre for Architecture New York, Seattle Architecture Foundation, Astoria Heritage Museum, Harvard University, Red Fort, Alliance Française, and India Habitat Centre in Delhi.


moderated by
Apurva Talpade
(SEA)


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