AR2052

Faculty: Sameer Kulavoor | Rahul Malandkar

TA: Rushabh Suchdev

We acknowledge that the formative years of early education are particularly impressionable and represent a crucial period for nurturing intuition and imagination. Through the studio sessions, we aim to foster empathy, sensitivity and a deeper connection with both the human experience and the environment. The primary objective is to expose students to a wide array of artistic disciplines including music, graphic design, contemporary art, performance art, animation, literature and more, in order to expand their creative horizons and widen their reference banks. Exercises will be designed to heighten students'' awareness of their immediate surroundings and the broader human context, encouraging them to embrace values such as inclusivity, accessibility, sustainability, and diversity. We place a strong emphasis on the hands-on aspect of creation, urging students to engage in a rigorous creative process. Furthermore, the studio promotes active discourse, critical analysis and an environment where students are encouraged to question binaries such as global versus local, permanence versus ephemerality, minimalism versus maximalism, form versus function, and play versus work. The idea is to expose the students to methods and approaches of making and thinking about architecture that may or may not have its origins within the conventional discourse around architecture.