Editorial

SEANEWSLETTER

a bi-annual chronicle of the School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai. ISSUE 8. Monsoon Semester 2019

EDITORIAL

This newsletter is the second student driven edition. Monsoon 2019 is the time when I joined SEA. I was in the first year constantly learning, unlearning, and relearning various things and was filled with a lot of eagerness to understand the pedagogical functioning of the school. Compiling this newsletter gave me an opportunity to observe the role of architectural academia, in engaging with contemporary design dialogues, and emerging spatial practices.

SEA is involved actively in thinking and implementing innovative methods of pedagogy which offers the liberty of experimentation for students as well as teachers. The studios become a laboratory which provide practical and philosophical exposure for the experimentation of ideas and forms towards building types, environment, housing, materials, visual culture etc. Watching movies, reading fiction and non fiction, making new objects of knowledge become integral to spatial and temporal exploration for students. On the other hand, each faculty offers a specialised four week module around their own area of expertise that explore subjects of curation, art, product design, miniatures, material cultures, housing, urban studies and environment.

This newsletter presents exploration of material possibilities, decoding logics, geometries and thinking through the lens of energy and resources which also summarizes the technology studios across the years. The design studios incorporated the idea of forming conceptual apparatus, reconfiguring typologies, resource systems manifesting into architectural expressions and thinking through the idea of wetness to make a city resilient to flooding. This issue also highlights the studies at Coimbatore and Trichy, studied under the long term inquiry of urbanization beyond the metropolis. SEA thus offers a variety of exposure to students by diving into philosophical, technological, environmental, social and cultural realms. After this issue we plan to transition into more exploratory formats. The SEA newsletter is undergoing a change, acknowledging the politics and the meaning behind the archiving, dissemination and consumption of academic experiments in the public realm.

Aditi Kawade

Editor

CONTENTS

1 \ Editorial

2-17 \ Student Work

History, Humanities, Theory, Methods Drawing Technology Form & Space Studies Allied Design Orientation

22\ Monsoon Electives 2019

24 \ SEA City and SEA Assembly

CREDITS

Editor: Aditi Kawade, Tanvi Savla