MUD ARCHITECTURE TODAY
The fifth in the bi-monthly series, this talk by Rohan Nahar -- Architect and Faculty at Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil College of Architecture, Pune -- will explain the relevance, durability and economics of mud architecture. And its challenges and potential in the context of contemporary architectural practice.
The talk will be followed by a dialogue with Dr Prabir K Das, Architect, Author and Consultant on Sustainable Architecture, and Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi.
TALK 6 A SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABILITY |
TALK 7 Water Management Strategies in the Ancient Pandya Kingdom  A talk by Madhusudhanan Kalaichelva, architect and heritage researcher. The presentation will explain the issues faced, and the strategies evolved, by the Pandya dynasty -- whose kingdom functioned around the southern districts of today's TamilNadu -- in dealing with water management in dry and drought prone areas. Followed by a dialogue with Dr Partho Dutta, Historian, Author and Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics; and Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. TALK 8 Designing for Rural Resilience  In this, the 8th talk of the series, Kalyan Akkipedi - engineer, social entrepreneur and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network - will present the transformative work he has been doing in Ananthapur district in AP. Since August 2010, he has been leveraging local social leadership capacities in a remote drought-prone area of one of the poorest districts in India, to co-create ProtoVillage -- the prototype of a resilient village. The talk will be followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, author and Visiting Faculty, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. TALK 9 People. Place. Practice A talk by Compartment S4, a multidisciplinary and collaborative design practice co-founded by 8 partners, with studios based in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. Their presentation will highlight participatory and people-centric approaches towards architectural practice -- and how this impacts design thinking across various types and scales of projects. Followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. |
TALK 10 : Back to Basics through Usable Art https://youtu.be/ZJme7Sr_A0E A talk by Allan Schwarz: artist, craftsman, architect and environmental designer. Allan's life work, the Mezimbite Forest Centre, which he founded in Mozambique's Miombo Biome in 1994, is a unique grass-roots forest management system of “Conservation by Design", crafting usable art in the form of high quality and sustainable forest products. Allan is an elected Beautiful Soul Africa Fellow and Ashoka Fellow, and was recently acknowledged in a Penguin publication of the world’s 25 leading “Climate Warriors”. Followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. Attendees to the session will find it useful to see this short film on Allan's work, made by Jessica Yu, when she was filming for NatGeo in Mozambique https://www. Talk 11: Simple rules for good living - our cities and their future  A talk by Professor Ashok Lall, architect, teacher, author, and active proponent of environmentally sustainable and socially responsible design - in his architectural practice as well as in the development of academic curricula, teaching methods, and urban strategies. Professor Lall was chair of the Jury for the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction, Asia Pacific Region, and is presently Design & Technology Chair at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA) Mumbai. Followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi.Talk 12 : The Way Ahead https://youtu.be/awgiYZmuWho  The twelfth and final session in the bi-monthly series on architecture, is centred on a dialogue between several practitioners, teachers, activists and social entrepreneurs. They will discuss how we may take forward the key themes that have emerged from earlier sessions, to see how architecture can contribute positively to society and to culture, and enable us to move towards a more equitable and ethical way of building and living. The session is dedicated to Professor Ashish Ganju, and his lifelong endeavour to find answers to this question: "The ability to create well-being in our habitat, a promise inherent in the knowledge base of architecture, is no longer taken for granted. How can this situation be turned around for public benefit?" (Ashish Ganju, 10th April, 2021) Introduced by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi Moderated by Professor Snehanshu Mukherjee: Architect, Educator and Writer, Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Art & Design, New Delhi
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