The Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), is organising an architecture conference — Thanima — on the subject of ‘Reinventing design pedagogy and contextual aesthetics’ on the NIT-C campus here on January 30 and 31.
The conference aims at exploring various aspects of architecture, including its aesthetics, formation, conditioning, politics, cultural connections, and ways of teaching design (pedagogy). “This is also an open invitation for collaborative research in allied areas,” said head of the department P.P. Anilkumar in a release here.
He said the visual experience of modern spaces all over the world was beginning to look almost alike.
In this regard, architecture and artefacts were no exceptions. Until the past century, there existed diverse cultures with distinct ways of life and fitting aesthetic sensibilities. The homogenisation of human cultures was one of the biggest challenges of modernity to be addressed by the academia and practitioners.
Among other things, the conference would discuss the homogenisation of aesthetic senses in architecture, theatre, art, and literature; teaching aesthetics; new explorations and possibilities; indigenous aesthetics; politics of taste; colonisation of senses; aesthetics born out of materials; and traditional aesthetics from different regions, he said.
Details can be had from the website www.icdpca2015.nitc.ac.in.
Inputs on any allied areas may be sent to icdpca2015@nitc.ac.in.
