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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.
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 
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​Co-Sponsor
Infinity Infotech Parks Ltd.
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Knowledge Partner
VSPB Associates
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Online Partner
ArchitectureLive
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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
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