Psychogrammars of Space
This symposium presents architectural research produced in the times of limited spatial access during the pandemic. When physical space escapes the bounds of cartographic mapping, it offers an opportunity to contemplate upon its orientations within the inner apparatus of the body - the psyche, mind or ideology. Where do the first ideas of form germinate? How do they manifest in our surroundings? How do we understand the built environment as a manifestation of such a mental process? Architectural practice inevitably oscillates between the tangible and the intangible.
In mobilizing the self as the field, several inquiries over this semester attempt to find the inner life of architecture - which is to investigate into architecture as a reflection of the inner individual or collective psyche. At the same time, the dispersed bodies allow an expanded seeing beyond the boundaries of the available immediate. In this register, how does architecture become a reading of class, caste, affection, oppression or routine? What forms of exchange does it produce in society? And therefore, how does
form - of life as well as space - accommodate it? Over three days, different panels lay out the psychogrammars of space that demonstrate the inter-construction of the self and the world. They ask us to dip ourselves into the territories of the subconscious, while we crawl on the surface of the real.
Presentations:
Vastu Shastra and Contemporary Life by Vaibhav Mistry
Imaging Home: Advertisements and Aspirations by Viraj Adhate
Migrant Homemaking by Raghav Gupta
Making a home on the street by Nandita Joshi
