https://sea-city.in SEA CITY Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:56:53 +0000 https://sea-city.in en https://sea-city.in/Sea-City-Intro-Blurb Thu, 16 Dec 2021 07:39:55 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/Sea-City-Intro-Blurb <img width="1417" height="744" width_o="1417" height_o="744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f0e9119b56cffc18ce25731867f9c481f0b9561cfde1ace07c109fd01afaae0/volumes-grid_ed-small.jpg" data-mid="186107297" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f0e9119b56cffc18ce25731867f9c481f0b9561cfde1ace07c109fd01afaae0/volumes-grid_ed-small.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="656" width_o="1250" height_o="656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b95fa62ac63ca940e1b07b3b2b6aadcd75db39b220d8900eacd9e4d041baccb/fabulations-2.jpg" data-mid="212885770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b95fa62ac63ca940e1b07b3b2b6aadcd75db39b220d8900eacd9e4d041baccb/fabulations-2.jpg" /> <img width="1417" height="744" width_o="1417" height_o="744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73a4b46b816b2ac11de63c2c5cb681f4a1259c3feb1cfd98a07033d6c7b3fbf1/volumes-2.jpg" data-mid="186140854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73a4b46b816b2ac11de63c2c5cb681f4a1259c3feb1cfd98a07033d6c7b3fbf1/volumes-2.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="656" width_o="1250" height_o="656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f251c7a13b3400e4f607a8cbcc98c62923f9f0349df11c40ce4f53117832ced/fabulations-4.jpg" data-mid="212885771" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f251c7a13b3400e4f607a8cbcc98c62923f9f0349df11c40ce4f53117832ced/fabulations-4.jpg" /> <img width="1417" height="744" width_o="1417" height_o="744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c269d3c140461731de6ac50f4153a5388ad4787e4e0a19c28d19d5f82d3f0e08/website-3.jpg" data-mid="186140855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c269d3c140461731de6ac50f4153a5388ad4787e4e0a19c28d19d5f82d3f0e08/website-3.jpg" /> <img width="1250" height="656" width_o="1250" height_o="656" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b826c923dbdbcabebdea1d41def5397f3059d505abfeded47f1be2666ab7e62a/fabulations-1.jpg" data-mid="212885769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b826c923dbdbcabebdea1d41def5397f3059d505abfeded47f1be2666ab7e62a/fabulations-1.jpg" /> <img width="1417" height="744" width_o="1417" height_o="744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c036ff87d385b5e603fdb0d4f3beb36645bf0b29bd91378099050e144303cf00/website-4.jpg" data-mid="186140856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c036ff87d385b5e603fdb0d4f3beb36645bf0b29bd91378099050e144303cf00/website-4.jpg" /> 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. https://sea-city.in/PROJECTIONS-ANTICIPATION-AND-ARCHITECTURE-1 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:48:30 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/PROJECTIONS-ANTICIPATION-AND-ARCHITECTURE-1 PROJECTIONS: ANTICIPATION AND ARCHITECTURE SEA CONVERSATIONS 2026-27 Find YouTube Lecture Recordings here This season’s conversation series Projections: Anticipation and Architecture delves in the discipline’s engagement with imagining futures. In exploring how architecture, and more broadly spatial practice, engages anticipation in envisioning futures, we ask: What forms of spatial and design thinking, and practices of hope, emerge when anticipation is understood as a widely distributed and negotiated capacity in turbulent worlds marked by deepening difference, colliding forcefields, uneven distribution of harm and risk, instability, uncertainty and fragility? How do architectural practices frame futures prospectively or retrospectively from the sociospatial conditions in which their projects are situated? These questions privilege as well as bring into conversation both research- and practice- based perspectives on the making of futures in this series. sessions July 10, 2026-&nbsp; Dushkaal: Reframing time and futurity in the climate crisis July 24 , 2026-&nbsp; Migration, Material, Memory August 08 , 2026-&nbsp; a Sphinx, a Cormorant &amp; other Forests Geographies of Imagination in participatory practices&nbsp; August 21 , 2026-&nbsp; One Thing Led to Another&nbsp; September 04, 2026-&nbsp; Elemental Coalitions&nbsp; (upcoming) October 09, 2026-&nbsp; Look, Find and Play October 23, 2026-&nbsp; Affordances and Interventions: Creating Infrastructures of Conviviality and Care <img width="1810" height="2560" width_o="1810" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cead6f6545c1c2de5e87f4b3aeafe92d412e3aa57cdb556618e972d81ffeafa/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-01-at-3.47.13-PM.jpeg" data-mid="250289338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cead6f6545c1c2de5e87f4b3aeafe92d412e3aa57cdb556618e972d81ffeafa/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-01-at-3.47.13-PM.jpeg" /> <img width="1810" height="2560" width_o="1810" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/528fe66df86c506dddc6fd6b6562bc586f75ecd3d25ccabd5b42e7ae239a8321/PHOTO-2026-07-01-15-47-14.jpg" data-mid="250289438" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/528fe66df86c506dddc6fd6b6562bc586f75ecd3d25ccabd5b42e7ae239a8321/PHOTO-2026-07-01-15-47-14.jpg" /> <img width="1810" height="2560" width_o="1810" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a91c7e4b2d16e33e1c1aad97b118270cec6fb0c6c70a94cdb432114638849d61/PHOTO-2026-07-01-15-47-14-1.jpg" data-mid="250289437" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a91c7e4b2d16e33e1c1aad97b118270cec6fb0c6c70a94cdb432114638849d61/PHOTO-2026-07-01-15-47-14-1.jpg" /> https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-5 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:56:53 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-5 session 5Elemental Coalitions Friday, 04 September 2026, 5 pm to 7 pm&nbsp; VENUE School of Environment &amp; ArchitectureCKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091 or join virtually via YouTube Live The grass genus Tripogon flourishes on the ledges of an abandoned basalt quarry. Its three apical awns effectively self-cultivate by drilling themselves into the soil. The awns make the grass tentacular, creating attachments and detachments. As it finds shelter in rock crevices and moves along available surfaces, the grass feels its way to situate itself, weaving networks with the terrain. It does not know where and how it will end up; it is open to possibilities. These acts of detachment and attachment are an outcome of an ongoing practice of what Haraway calls “collective knowing and doing.” Highlighting such stories of elemental coalitions in a ruin, the talk shares an actionable vocabulary for architects to response-ably build in the ongoing regimes of climate crisis.&nbsp; discussants Sonal Mitthal Sonal Mithal (she/her) is an architect, artist, and educator. She is co-founder of research and conservation studio, People for Heritage Concern. She serves as Chair of the Masters in Conservation and Regeneration program at CEPT University. Her practice, teaching, and writing transects architecture, landscape, queer studies, history, and conservation. She is invested in research-based artistic practice informed by systematic archival inquiry, political critiques, and design environments integrating contemporary ecological factors. She has produced large scale artworks for the Ahmedabad and Surat Metro stations that visualize lesser-known histories of the cities through rigorous archival research Her artwork, Matter in the Future Continuous was exhibited at the Nature/Sci Equilibrium Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2019. The artwork proposed possibilities of using decay, ruination, and agents thereof as triggers for regenerating aging matter. Her artwork, The Sentient Ruin was exhibited as part of the India Pavilion at the London Design Biennale 2021. Some of that work became foundational for the book Living together: More-Than-Human Ecologies for Architectural Thinking (2025). Her other books include Lucknow Queerscapes (2024), and IncLOOsive: Feminist Toilet Architecture (2025). moderated by Prasad Khanolkar (SEA) This lecture series is partially supported by Urban Centre Mumbai and is free and open to public. <img width="1131" height="1600" width_o="1131" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26ab7bc39048d84d1a7d595097c9649d1480bc5e4da96ac0dd3142bea610f924/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-31-at-1.13.17-PM.jpeg" data-mid="251756551" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26ab7bc39048d84d1a7d595097c9649d1480bc5e4da96ac0dd3142bea610f924/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-31-at-1.13.17-PM.jpeg" /> https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-4 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:42:32 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-4 session 4 One Thing Led to Another Friday, 21 August 2026, 5 pm to 7 pm&nbsp; VENUE School of Environment &amp; ArchitectureCKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091 or join virtually via YouTube Live The talk traces the evolution of an architectural practice through the questions that emerged from its work. Moving across a series of projects, it reflects on how engagements with site, material, construction, labour, and landscape have gradually shaped an architectural approach. The talk follows how the practice has opened new inquiries and possibilities and considers architecture as a cumulative and situated form of learning, continually reshaped by the conditions, relationships, and material realities from which it emerges.To bear witness also invites several reimaginations of histories, ideas, communities, governance, advocacy, policy, bio-diversity and ecologies of communion. discussants Naomy Parikh Naomy Parikh is an architect, co-founder of Doro, a graduate of CEPT University, and a trained potter from Golden Bridge Pottery. Based in Ahmedabad, Doro is an architecture and design practice working across architecture, design, and curation. moderated by Vastavikta Bhagat (SEA) This lecture series is partially supported by Urban Centre Mumbai and is free and open to public. <img width="1810" height="2560" width_o="1810" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf4bbcea776191441e6206a520f253d8b348e1061b413387ca43986c055d6009/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-14-at-3.23.47-PM.jpeg" data-mid="251448166" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf4bbcea776191441e6206a520f253d8b348e1061b413387ca43986c055d6009/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-14-at-3.23.47-PM.jpeg" /> https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-3 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:08:13 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-3 session 3 a Sphinx, a Cormorant &amp; other Forests: Geographies of Imagination in Participatory Practices Friday, 07 August 2026, 5 pm to 7 pm&nbsp; VENUE School of Environment &amp; ArchitectureCKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091 or join virtually via YouTube Live Unpredictable climates carry a sea of imaginations revealing geographies and transient nature. Cyclic phenomena, with diverse rhythms: circadian, subliminal seasons, centurian, millenial and more—manifest measures of an imagination of time with memories of past, experience of present, and intuitions of future. From thresholds, spatial aspirations attempt to contemplate technological acts of inhabitation.Drawing from creative practices of resilience and its lived experiences—the narrative engages in participatory, self-build, community rebuilding processes that lend themselves to contemplate liminal “architectures of practice” in uncertain times. An accretive habitat that organically grows over time.Cormorants, cats and forests—inadvertently bear witness as the philosophical, humane, environmental, political, ecological, economic narratives and questions unfold with intuitions of our collective shared futures. Geographies of coastal sands, forests, mangroves, lakes, topographies, silt and fields, wetlands, riverine plains, dunes, sea, hills and deserts.To bear witness also invites several reimaginations of histories, ideas, communities, governance, advocacy, policy, bio-diversity and ecologies of communion. discussants Durganand Balsavar Durganand Balsavar is an architect, researcher, and environmental advocate (Artes Roots Collaborative / Avani, Calicut). His work spans participatory housing, disaster mitigation, environmental policy, and community-led design, including UNEP, Auroville TDC, and the Shenzhen Biennale 2026. moderated by Rohit Mujumdar (SEA) This lecture series is partially supported by Urban Centre Mumbai and is free and open to public. <img width="1131" height="1600" width_o="1131" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c73b61c4754b663764b4353c3b493214779c7faf5da42cd63fb68c8bf600566c/PHOTO-2026-07-20-12-13-49.jpg" data-mid="251014744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c73b61c4754b663764b4353c3b493214779c7faf5da42cd63fb68c8bf600566c/PHOTO-2026-07-20-12-13-49.jpg" /> https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-2 Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:59:54 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-2 session 2Migration, Material, Memory Friday, 24 July 2026, 5 pm to 7 pm VENUE School of Environment &amp; ArchitectureCKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091 or join virtually via YouTube Live 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.&nbsp;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. <img width="1131" height="1600" width_o="1131" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67878af9f427a5bf7ea89bdd5bbeb3e0deb1f8f97a67511be88d440a9167b076/fd931553-f719-4f9a-87ab-d87c3498f6d9.jpeg" data-mid="250607017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67878af9f427a5bf7ea89bdd5bbeb3e0deb1f8f97a67511be88d440a9167b076/fd931553-f719-4f9a-87ab-d87c3498f6d9.jpeg" /> https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-1 Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:06:43 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/PAA-Session-1 session 1Dushkaal: Reframing time and futurity in the climate crisis Friday, 10 July 2026, 5 pm to 7 pm VENUE School of Environment &amp; ArchitectureCKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091 or join virtually via YouTube Live From their vantage point on the frontlines of disaster, Indigenous Koli fishers from Maharashtra frame the fishing crisis they sense unfolding as also a climate crisis, one that’s long in the making. They articulate this slow disaster as matsya dushkaal (fish drought). By blurring the line between the everyday and the eventful disaster, dushkaal conceptually contests the reductive, event-based, crisis-planning approach of the government and makes claims to reframe the temporality of the climate crisis. The time of dushkaal, or long dyings that fishers live in intimate relation with, also foregrounds a loss that’s rarely acknowledged: that of ‘home’ and a mode or inhabitation, even while they continue to reside in place. In the everyday of dushkaal, fishers both anticipate a future but also insist on the need for other possible futures.Dushkaal is one of a set of 8 entries in a forthcoming Climate Glossary that contributes to think from and with emic terms encountered in urban environments that provide a new grammar for reading and inhabiting time and space in already climate changed cities. discussants Lalitha Kamath (Social scientiest and Urbanist) Lalitha Kamath is an urbanist working at the intersection of urban infrastructure, urban planning and governance, urban informality and the environment. She is interested in reimagining planning practice by storytelling and drawing from fisher knowledge and the liquidities of the ocean. She teaches in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. moderated by Prasad Khanolkar (SEA) This lecture series is partially supported by Urban Centre Mumbai and is free and open to public. <img width="1810" height="2560" width_o="1810" height_o="2560" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/221e2c81de08699f3c2d2866a7c573233ed3511b08b6a1bd4fc97cf2d49d9667/PHOTO-2026-07-03-19-17-00.jpg" data-mid="250289752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/221e2c81de08699f3c2d2866a7c573233ed3511b08b6a1bd4fc97cf2d49d9667/PHOTO-2026-07-03-19-17-00.jpg" /> https://sea-city.in/Architectural-Practice-in-India-2 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:38:57 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/Architectural-Practice-in-India-2 Architectural Practice In India: A Millennial Archaeology - Part 2 winter 2025-26Find YouTube Lecture Recordings here At the threshold of the first quarter of the millennium, which also marks a generation since India’s economic liberalization, architectural practice in India is ripe for a critical re-evaluation. In this period, the country has gradually, yet starkly shifted from a socialist framework to a neoliberal state, where developmental politics has ramified architectural production into new directions and logics. Existing scholarship on the built environment in India has often focused narrowly on the aesthetics of form, the evolving identity of the architect, or the reception of modernism as inherited from the West. Architectural discourse has largely taken one of two paths: either documenting work deemed academically significant, or framing emerging practices in terms of identity—often measured against binaries such as modern versus indigenous/vernacular. Such approaches tend to posit the architect as a servant of academic canons&nbsp; or fixed ideals. Architectural practice on the ground, as it appears now, is far more complex - one that exhibits reorientation of spatial ideals and values to reflect a rapidly evolving society increasingly shaped by media, consumerism, and aspirations of globalisation. Once trained architects step into the field, the idealism of modernism is quickly refracted through geopolitical urgencies and the pragmatic demands of practice. What is often overlooked is the inherent political exigency that compels practice to adapt—making the operations and expressions of architecture more malleable and responsive to emerging needs of the market - in its widest extensions. In such contexts, architects evolve new formats, languages, agencies, and strategies to negotiate their professional knowledge to remain relevant within the real-world demands of building reinterpreting spatial briefs through the vocabularies of capital, conservation, environment, real estate, and more. ‘Architectural Practice in India: A Millennial Archaeology’ seeks to examine how architectural practice in India has developed over the last three decades within the framework of the millennial shift in its political economy. What forces—of power, ambition, and institutional pressure—have shaped architectural production during this period and how does it reorganise the delivery of the built environment? What aspects of practice gain currency in the emerging market and how does the professional architect find reconciliations and directions in addressing these. In excavating these variegated&nbsp; forms of practice that shape the unevenness of our built landscape today, these discussions aim to explore tendencies such as the rise of managerial approach, the renewed focus on environmental and heritage concerns, the emergence of artisanal and communitarian agendas, the urgency of urbanistic thinking, response to media and the integration of computational and digital thinking that come to constitute distinct, yet composite strands of spatial practice today.&nbsp; The new cycle of SEA City Conversations is conceived as a year-long series of panel discussions featuring architects and spatial commentators, whose own practices have decisively responded to the millennial shifts in the region, by means of slipping, fitting or pushing the envelopes of conventional formats of practice. Methodologically, the series will draw upon the professional biographies of practitioners from across the city whose trajectories have remained representatively pivotal in bringing and operating in such changing dynamics of practice. Through reflexive interrogation and collective debate over the upcoming year, the programme imagines to present itself as an open course for the city, and invite the public to participate in a collective architecture history-writing exercise that seeks to critically engage with the evolving realities of contemporary architecture in India. sessions Dec 05, 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Media Practices and ArchitectureJan 30, 2026&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Contemporary Artistic Practices &amp; Architecture Mar 06, 2026&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Communitarian &amp; Activist Practices Mar 13, 2026&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Computational &amp; Digitally Driven Practices <img width="1192" height="1685" width_o="1192" height_o="1685" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4507f3a8ba239d8bb5f4c28046a5dc6251a8f3a102f2157ef70ba1f660195532/API_part-2-overall-poster.jpg" data-mid="240623699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4507f3a8ba239d8bb5f4c28046a5dc6251a8f3a102f2157ef70ba1f660195532/API_part-2-overall-poster.jpg" /> https://sea-city.in/API2-Session-1 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:15:49 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/API2-Session-1 session 8 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. <img width="1191" height="1685" width_o="1191" height_o="1685" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ced7583580b8364954342b94ec7b14d0e547e820ce9af7e148b230a8f829336d/API2-session-1.jpg" data-mid="241255209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ced7583580b8364954342b94ec7b14d0e547e820ce9af7e148b230a8f829336d/API2-session-1.jpg" /> https://sea-city.in/API2-Session-2 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:58:31 +0000 SEA CITY https://sea-city.in/API2-Session-2 session 9 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 Architecture 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. <img width="1192" height="1685" width_o="1192" height_o="1685" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/752ac6ef179b47376f76599b726723ed733edd73b084bf4786a761716f38e830/API2-session-2.jpg" data-mid="244177975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/752ac6ef179b47376f76599b726723ed733edd73b084bf4786a761716f38e830/API2-session-2.jpg" />