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UPCOMING
CONVERSATION

Architecture and Media Cultures
Saturday 05 September 2026, 5.00 pm IST

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 Arnika Ahldag
(Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)
Anuj Daga
(CEPT University)
Karthigesu Dhilashini
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka (MMCA Sri Lanka)



Exhibiting Architecture in South Asia
 





As part of the ongoing PATIO Conversations series on Architecture and Media Cultures, this session turns to the exhibition space as a critical site for architectural discourse in South Asia. Unlike contexts with robust institutional archives, exhibiting architecture here often means working against limited formal documentation—pushing practitioners to engage vernacular records, oral histories, personal papers, and other unconventional forms of research as primary source material. This also raises pressing questions of agency, where the standard exhibition model, centred on the architect as sole protagonist and framing architecture as an end product, sits uneasily within a region shaped by collective, informal, and often uncredited modes of building practices. Bringing together practitioners working across curation, archiving, and institution-building, the conversation examines how museums, archives, and independent initiatives are rethinking whose stories get told, and how, when the source material—and the very idea of authorship—resists conventional framing.



This special session will be held in a hybrid format, with an in-person event at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC), India, alongside an online component. If you're in Bengaluru, we encourage you to join us in person. If joining online, please note the slightly different timing: Saturday, 5 September, 5–7 PM IST.






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SESSIONS

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PATIO Conversation No. 16 | Alican Taylan & Bérénice Girard
PATIO Conversation No. 15 |
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PATIO Conversation No. 14 | THINKmatter & The Funambulist
PATIO Conversation No. 13 | Priya Joseph & Vishvesh Kandolkar
PATIO Conversation No. 12 | Sarah Melsens, Ishita Shah & Pamudu Tennakoon
PATIO Conversation No. 11 |
Madhumati A., Zahra Yasmoon & Dipti Shukla
PATIO Conversation No. 10 | Nicholas Bill & Chee Kien Lai

PATIO Conversation No. 09 |
Swati Chattopadhyay & 
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PATIO Conversation No. 08 | Labib Hossain & Javairia Shahid
PATIO Conversation No. 07 |  Shaikhah Ali Alsalhi & 
Ali Javid     
PATIO Conversation No. 06 | Sarover Zaidi & Saniya Siddiqui
PATIO Conversation No. 05 | Mehwish Abid & Johann Peiris 
PATIO Conversation No. 04 | Meenakshi Jain & Richa Shah       
            
PATIO Conversation No. 03 | Anthony Wako & Dhaval Chauhan
PATIO Conversation No. 02 | Kairavi Maniar & Esa Shaikh
PATIO Conversations No. 01 | Chetan Sahasrabudhe & Ashmita Gupta
 






PATIO
CONVERSATIONS

PATIO Conversations are open to all; we aim to meet once a month, and scholars get an opportunity to share their work in progress. These presentations may be on a topic of their choice, which may relate to one or more of PATIO’s thematic umbrellas, or even critically reconsider and reconfigure our definition of particular themes. Participants may include independent scholars, Master's students, or aspiring PhD students as well as postdoctoral researchers who can contribute as speakers or choose to be an active part of the audience. Each such conversation foregrounds two scholars presenting their work for 20 minutes, followed by feedback from relevant respondents invited by the PATIO team in relation to the topic, and finally opening the discussion out to the larger audience. As such, PATIO Conversations offers a platform for critical dialogue while both disseminating recently completed work and providing mentorship to aspirant researchers, including potential PhD candidates. These sessions provide researchers with the resources to further their work related to the state of the field by involving active experts and engaging with current bodies of relevant work, published or otherwise. 
PATIO Conversations is directed by Saptarshi Sanyal and Sarah Melsens with the help of Thematic directors and Coordinators.