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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Contemporary Artistic Practices and Architecture




Friday, 30 January 2026,
6 pm to 8 pm

How do architectural practices dialogue with art and shift spatial thinking? As a cultural practice, architects have continued to expand the ambit of spatial thinking through purposeful conversations with artistic modes of thinking and making. Over the last two decades, architecture and art have increasingly engaged new media and technologies, altered sensoriums, contended with ecological precarity, and questions of urban life, identity, and difference. These concerns have reoriented how space is perceived, inhabited, and contested. By locating architecture in artistic enquiry, the talk examines how spatial thinking is reconfigured through experimentation, speculation, and critique rather than solely through problem-solving or functional imperatives. In foregrounding transformations in environmental awareness, urban experience, and mediated perception, the session highlights how engagement with artistic practices enables architecture to remain critically responsive to contemporary conditions. It asks what we mean by the “contemporary” and how this term is shaped by historical shifts in artistic and architectural discourse since the new millennium.

discussants

Rajeev Thakker
(a-RT)

Justine De Penning
(The Architecure Story)

Samira Rathod
(Samira Rathod Design Atelier)

moderated by
Anuj Daga
(SEA)


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