experimentation: 2014

Sunday, 3 August 2014

KRVIA-design dissertation awards 2013

Recently I visited the Kamla Raheja Design Dissertation Awards. Students from the final year from the last year 2013 displayed the panels of their thesis projects in the school. Around 22 panels were put up for the display and among them 10 had presented their work.

The Jurors were Sameep Padora, Rajeev Thakker and Madhav Raman(anagram architects).

The students presenting were given a 10 min time slot wherein they had to explain their project followed by the jury comments and questions.it was a good session altogether, but certainly the extreme research and background studies led to the shortage of time and many students could not reach to their design strategies and fall short of time.

Another interesting fact about the projects was they had multiple sites and interventions. The projects were not bound by conventional ideas of museum, public park, hospital, hotel etc. poetic project were we very well addressed in term of program while the one relating to issue had its own specificities.

Few students presented the jury on behalf of their friend while one jury was taken on skype and other one happened via online call. These all suggest how a school is open to such ideas and is free in a way.

The panels filled with overflowing essays of analysis. The diagrammatic presentation of few panels was commendable

All the panels were restricted to be composed on A2 sheet, as standards of UDRI chrarles correa gold medal and NIASA thesis awards. So a uniformity in the exhibition was seen.