Platform for Architectural Transfers in the Indian Ocean rim
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UPCOMING
SESSION

Architecture and Media Cultures
14th November 2024
Thursday 5.30 pm IST
Respondent:  Rohan Shivkumar  (KRVIA)
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Explore the participants’ media productions ahead of the conversation:
‘is this an architectural documentary?’ (password” archidoc) | MMCA exhibition |  ‘Nostalgia for the Future’ |  ‘Lovely Villa’ | ‘Squeeze Lime in Your Eye’


Decolonising Home through Objects: Repair, Archive and Visual Art to History Writing

Mehwish Abid
(McGill University)


Decolonising Home through Objects (DHTO) investigates the stories of migration at the time of partition across the borders of Pakistan & India and later within Pakistan through objects and material culture. This mother project envisions creating an archive built with the help of the community through people's historical narrative employing a participatory approach. The project has been an event of repair, an act of archive-making, an effort to democratise the archive through archival photography and it has not entered its theorising phase. This talk will speak about the journey of the project and maker. 


In search of traces of a housing project – reflections of a researcher
Johann Peiris
(CHDM, Colombo)


In this reflective presentation I will talk about the experiences of doing research for the documentary ‘Is this an architectural documentary?’ (film by Tennakoon, Kelegama and Athokorale, 2023) The topics covered will include research during lockdown, methodologies explored in understanding how housing schemes could be documented and unearthing anecdotal and archival evidence of architect Minnette De Silva (1918-1998)  and the housing scheme in focus, the Watapuluwa Housing Scheme in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It will necessary also refer to the architect’s social milieu, her contemporaries and the social context both global and local in which we situate her design and manifesto for a participatory architectural model. Looking back 65 years since its inception what approaches to participatory design, documenting and social research could be worth revisiting?


PAST
SESSIONS

PATIO Conversations No. 04 | Meenakshi A. & Richa Shah


PATIO Conversations 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 offer 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.