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.
SEA PAVILION 2024
FORECAST INDIA: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR PAVILION DESIGNS RESPONDING TO THE MONSOON AND CLIMATE CHANGE
FORECAST INDIA: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR PAVILION DESIGNS RESPONDING TO THE MONSOON AND CLIMATE CHANGE
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Winter 2023-24
Technological Practice as Riyaz
How do we explore technology as a form of cultural practice through the conceptual lens of Riyaz? For us at SEA, Riyaz is a systematic way of practicing a form of art or craft with a long term commitment to not just learning it but also advancing the self and the form of practice in the process. It involves routine, discipline, engagements, isolation, diligence, play, repetitiveness and experimentation, through which one arrives at and struggles with the longue durée questions. As a practice–a technological practice, be it in architecture, music, sculpture, or engineering, riyaz involves a rhythmic engagement with the self, the technological matter (body, mud, brick, textile, strings, concrete) as well as the world within which the practice is located and towards which it is addressed.
This winter cycle SEA Conversations aims to explore technological practice or techne as riyaz. We ask: In riyaz, how does one engage with matter (molding, sculpting, weaving, screwing, ramming, kneading), which is not just material but also emotions, experiences, memories, histories, dreams and desires? What kinds of rhythms are devised between the practitioner, the matter, and the world in this practice of engagement? What kinds of routines, repetitions, and intensities constitute these rhythms? How does the material and the immaterial, shape the process and the rhythms? What kinds of asymmetries, imperfections, and unexpectedness emerge in this process? And what role do they play? How does the larger world, including the fields of art and architectural practices, within which the practice is located shape the riyaz? And lastly, how does the conceptual lens of techne as riyaz allow us to rethink the given notions of technology in the field of architectural practice and pedagogy? We explore these questions through conversations with six invited practitioners who have been working with different mediums across different geographies.
speakers 2024
Jan 05 Neha Kudchadkar
Jan 19 Sankalpa Sankalpa*
Feb 02 Afra Eisma
Feb 23 Sagarika Suri*
Mar 08 Asim Waqif* <<
Mar 22 Priyanka Narula
*sessions on campus
Technological Practice as Riyaz
How do we explore technology as a form of cultural practice through the conceptual lens of Riyaz? For us at SEA, Riyaz is a systematic way of practicing a form of art or craft with a long term commitment to not just learning it but also advancing the self and the form of practice in the process. It involves routine, discipline, engagements, isolation, diligence, play, repetitiveness and experimentation, through which one arrives at and struggles with the longue durée questions. As a practice–a technological practice, be it in architecture, music, sculpture, or engineering, riyaz involves a rhythmic engagement with the self, the technological matter (body, mud, brick, textile, strings, concrete) as well as the world within which the practice is located and towards which it is addressed.
This winter cycle SEA Conversations aims to explore technological practice or techne as riyaz. We ask: In riyaz, how does one engage with matter (molding, sculpting, weaving, screwing, ramming, kneading), which is not just material but also emotions, experiences, memories, histories, dreams and desires? What kinds of rhythms are devised between the practitioner, the matter, and the world in this practice of engagement? What kinds of routines, repetitions, and intensities constitute these rhythms? How does the material and the immaterial, shape the process and the rhythms? What kinds of asymmetries, imperfections, and unexpectedness emerge in this process? And what role do they play? How does the larger world, including the fields of art and architectural practices, within which the practice is located shape the riyaz? And lastly, how does the conceptual lens of techne as riyaz allow us to rethink the given notions of technology in the field of architectural practice and pedagogy? We explore these questions through conversations with six invited practitioners who have been working with different mediums across different geographies.
speakers 2024
Jan 05 Neha Kudchadkar
Jan 19 Sankalpa Sankalpa*
Feb 02 Afra Eisma
Feb 23 Sagarika Suri*
Mar 08 Asim Waqif* <<
Mar 22 Priyanka Narula
*sessions on campus
session 5
by Priyanka Narula
Woven Morphologies
by Priyanka Narula
Narula
believes that weaving is not only an art form, but also a way for
material interaction and integration. It is a way of life and
means of craft, but also a means to explore structural
capabilities. Weaving can produce a small basket, as much as a
building envelope. In this talk, Priyanka Narula
interrogates woven morphologies via means of craft,
communities, material, scale of application and sustainability.
about
Priyanka Narula is the founder of ‘The Wicker Story’ - a research-driven design studio with an ongoing exploration of the Indian craft of weaving, founded in 2018. Based in Hyderabad, India, the Studio is known for its expansive art installations, inventive fabrications, sculptures and furniture that have trailblazed a new design language for cane and rattan craft in India.
A SEA City Initiative.
about
Priyanka Narula is the founder of ‘The Wicker Story’ - a research-driven design studio with an ongoing exploration of the Indian craft of weaving, founded in 2018. Based in Hyderabad, India, the Studio is known for its expansive art installations, inventive fabrications, sculptures and furniture that have trailblazed a new design language for cane and rattan craft in India.
A SEA City Initiative.
ANNUAL WEEK AT SEA
2024
17 FEB 0930 HRS
International Conference
DEVISING ARCHITECTURE, AMIDST ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXIGENCIES
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International Conference
DEVISING ARCHITECTURE, AMIDST ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXIGENCIES
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