KHABAR, IPSA NI
Riddhi Shah | Bhavesh Wadhwani | Devashree Jadeja
The pandemic may have disrupted the regular schedule of school, but everyone is working from ho as per regular timetable. The efforts to move online required engaging with all subjects’ faculty a to complete all academic requirements of current semester. Here’s what the college is up-to...
INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA AND NEPAL
IN-CONVERSATION WITH PROF. CHHAYA ON ESSENCE OF HOME
Since 2020, IPSA has been actively involved as a partner institute in InterNepInd; a European-Asian partnership among Higher Education Institutions in Spain, Portugal, India and Nepal. This program is setup to build, support and share internationalization strategies among its members. It is a step forward in the internationalization of Higher Education Institutions. “InterNepInd” (https://internepind-eplus.eu/) is a Capacity Building project which aims to support the internationalization process of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in India and Nepal, in order to improve the quality of Higher Education and to promote regional and international cooperation. InterNepInd consortium is integrated by 9 HEIs from Spain, Portugal, India and Nepal, coordinated by Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT, Spain) and integrated by the following partners in addition to IPSA: • • • • • • •
University of Aveiro (UA, Portugal) Sarvajanik College of Engineering &Technology Nalla Malla Reddy Engineering College Vivekanand Education Society Institute of Management Shantaben Manubhai Patel School of Studies and Research in Architecture and Interior Design Nepal Engineering College Sagarmatha Engineering College
The internationalization amongst these institutes will benefit students and faculties. It will promote the process for Double Degrees, Joint PhDs, Joint academic activities including e-learning, Virtual Open Dialogues, Collaborative Projects and Internationalization at home.
Design Studio 4 focuses on the concept of people, place and dwellings. It fosters the sense of community dwelling through elements and its making. Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya is mentoring this studio. He is an eminent architect and academician. He is also associated with various other design schools in India and to generate insightful themes and connotations of dwellings, he delivered a series of presentations and lectures that ground the studio to the essence of home... The title of lectures are below: 1. What is dwelling? 2. Where do you dwell? 3. Places in the house 4. Transactions across the limit: the inside & the outside 5. The vocabulary, the grammar & prose of a dwelling 6. Ways of speaking Two programs are offered to the students; one based on the site in Rajkot led by Riddhi Shah and the other in Bhavnagar led by Rupesh Patel and Rushikesh Kotadiya. The site at Rajkot is situated in an urban setting while the one at Bhavnagar is located amidst the historical precinct. Both the programs are running parallel with different approaches and concerns.
