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Search Workshop 16
December 21-27 | 2016 | Kolkata ‘Search Workshop 16’ on ‘Landscape Urbanism’ was a network of learning through exchanges. Download the Book of Abstracts below. 
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Search Workshop 16
December 21-27 | 2016 | Kolkata
The whole span of the ‘Search Workshop 16’ on ‘Landscape Urbanism’ was a network of learning through exchanges within, with the subject and the context. The emerging discipline of Landscape Urbanism has been attempting to break into the consciousness of the planning and architecture academia and practice for the last ten years. Numerous opportunities for explorations do exist within such a sphere of operation, especially in the developing context of India. Any attempt to imagine 21st-century living, therefore, may very well acknowledge nature, and now urbanity, as the primary foundation of our existence. This idea could only be nurtured and practiced in a setting where informed and passionate minds come together to reposition the human life within the urban environment and vice-versa.
As an event, Search Workshop 16 offered a rare opportunity for professionals and students from disciplines of architecture, planning, design, and engineering to come together and initiate a discourse on the emerging discipline beyond its perceived hybridity of landscape and urbanism. No city in India could have been better working ground for the first in the series, but Kolkata. The City of Joy provided a rich contextual challenge for the participants with its layers of environmental and political history, a dense and varied range of users, and consequent urban forms.
The geographical representation of mentors and participants enriched the event further, through each one’s academic and lived experiences. Some of them were acquainted with political system but not with the environmental one, and for others, it was vice-versa. Like, with their cultural know-how of the language, food, and ecology, it was home-away-from-home for the seven participants from Bangladesh, who worked seamlessly with the city. However, participants from some other cities within the political boundary of India found the operational context different from what they have witnessed and experienced before.
December 21-27 | 2016 | Kolkata
The whole span of the ‘Search Workshop 16’ on ‘Landscape Urbanism’ was a network of learning through exchanges within, with the subject and the context. The emerging discipline of Landscape Urbanism has been attempting to break into the consciousness of the planning and architecture academia and practice for the last ten years. Numerous opportunities for explorations do exist within such a sphere of operation, especially in the developing context of India. Any attempt to imagine 21st-century living, therefore, may very well acknowledge nature, and now urbanity, as the primary foundation of our existence. This idea could only be nurtured and practiced in a setting where informed and passionate minds come together to reposition the human life within the urban environment and vice-versa.
As an event, Search Workshop 16 offered a rare opportunity for professionals and students from disciplines of architecture, planning, design, and engineering to come together and initiate a discourse on the emerging discipline beyond its perceived hybridity of landscape and urbanism. No city in India could have been better working ground for the first in the series, but Kolkata. The City of Joy provided a rich contextual challenge for the participants with its layers of environmental and political history, a dense and varied range of users, and consequent urban forms.
The geographical representation of mentors and participants enriched the event further, through each one’s academic and lived experiences. Some of them were acquainted with political system but not with the environmental one, and for others, it was vice-versa. Like, with their cultural know-how of the language, food, and ecology, it was home-away-from-home for the seven participants from Bangladesh, who worked seamlessly with the city. However, participants from some other cities within the political boundary of India found the operational context different from what they have witnessed and experienced before.
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Mentors and Speakers
Abhimanyu Prakash, New York Anjan Mitra, Kolkata Dr. Arkopal K. Goswami, IIT Kharagpur Dr. Chandrima Sinha, Kolkata Dr. Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Kolkata Dr. Joy Sen, IIT Kharagpur Kallol Basu, Kolkata Kalyan Mukhopadhyay, Kolkata Rahul Nargas, Toronto Rajesh Advani, New Delhi Rupali Gupte, SEA Mumbai Prasad Shetty, SEA Mumbai Prof. Samiran Datta, SRFTII Kolkata Saurabh Tewari, SPA Bhopal Subhadip Biswas, Kolkata Dr. Shubhrajit Das, JU Kolkata Prof. Suchandra Bardhan, JU Kolkata Dr. Sudeshna Mitra, IIT Kharagpur Dr. Suptendu P. Biswas, New Delhi Dr. Triptendu Prakash Ghosh, IIFT Kolkata Vina Verghese Biswas, New Delhi Coordinators Saurabh Tewari, SPA Bhopal Subhadip Biswas, Kolkata Dr. Arkopal K. Goswami, IIT Kharagpur Organisers Trust for SEARCH, Kolkata and New Delhi RCGSIDM, IIT Kharagpur Lead Sponsor Terre Armee www.terre-armee.com Co-Sponsor Infinity Infotech Parks Ltd. www.infinityitpark.com Knowledge Partner VSPB Associates www.vspbassociates.com Online Partner ArchitectureLive www.architecturelive.in |
Participants
Young Professionals Akriti Kacker, Lucknow Ankita Sehgal, Bengaluru Anubha Madhav Joshi, Pune Amrita Kumari, Bengaluru Anusha Ranganathan, Bengaluru Apeksha Jain, Agra Chaitanya Dang, Raipur Esha Kundu, New Delhi Moumita Banik Mou, Dhaka Paridhi Jain, Bhopal Vanya Pandey, Lucknow Young Faculty Members Enam Rabbi Adnan, Dhaka Honey Jalali, Manesar Parul Vyas, Vadodara Tazrin Islam, Dhaka PG Students Deepshikha Bhattacharyay, SPA Bhopal Kavita Dhanuka, SPA Bhopal Khandoker Tariqul Islam, BUET Dhaka Laha Priyandri, SPA Bhopal Nivedita Patel, SPA Bhopal Nupur Soni, SPA Bhopal Pragati Prasoon, SPA Bhopal Rahul Das, SPA Bhopal Ruksana Afroz, BUET Dhaka Rupamita Bose, CEPT Ahmedabad Shireen Anwar Hossain, SPA Delhi Udday Shankur Datta, BUET Dhaka UG Students Abrar Ali, CA Trivandrum Arun Kuthanazhi, BIT Ranchi Debmalya Ghosh, JU Kolkata Lakshya Jain, SPA Bhopal Roshan K.S.S., JNAFAU Hyderabad Shuvo Datta, BUET Dhaka Sonal Jaiswal, MBSSPA Delhi Surbhi Agrawal, SPA Bhopal Utkarsh Kumar Singh, BIT Ranchi Varun Bhakhri, KRVIA Mumbai Vikramaditya Singh Rathore, SPA Bhopal Vidhi Wadhawan, SPA Bhopal Vivek Rakotu, JNAFAU Hyderabad |