IUDI: 2013: VENUE: SPA BHOPAL
PARTICIPANT: KRVIA- SPA DELHI- CEPT- SPA BHOPAL
The IUDI thesis symposium is beginning
to shape into a serious platform to share the research and discuss the theoretical
questions in Indian context. The participants have clearly demonstrated that
the regional questions are important in theorizing urban research. The four institutes
that participated have managed to address the urban issue as a regional
question and action as an aspiration of localized idea.
CEPT demonstrated that research
and thesis is an outcome of studio project extended into the stack holder’s
participation and channelizing the contested participant into local governing
bodies. Both the case seems to identify the issues and demonstrating seamlessly
into actionable thesis project. The both the case study build on the platform
of vision to transformation with multiple trajectories. The KRVIA demonstrated
the terrain specificity with greater emphasize in empirical sense as well as
phenomenal sense. The ideas related to administered foot print, eco-foot print,
co modified foot print demonstrated the point that land is community and not
commodity. The tools to regulate the changing phenomenon, the values system as
a product of tangible and intangible process, that regulating the ambiguity and
vitality of everyday urban ism are also the product of multi-valent nature of
urban education that is embedded into the most complex forces of urban agglomeration.
Both the institution demonstrated
that urban design practice deals with spatial phenomenon as a product of social
and cultural process. The spatial practice informs the urban design decisions
and a guardian of urban fabric and quality of life.
The KRVIA stance as being
subservient to regional imperative as urban conditions and CEPT imagination of
evolving as continuous urban process surely brings the main discourse of Urban
Design practice as being thinking & integration of architecture for
collective will. The conclusive answers to all empirical and phenomenal
questions are in open ended-ness. The super impositions of variations and
opportunities within are the larger learning for such open ended ness.
