Organized By:School of Architecture & Planning, BBD University, Lucknow.
Name of Organizer Coordinator:Ar. Satyam Srivastava, Assistant Professor, SAP,BBDU
Collaborating Organization, if any:Lucknow Urban Designers Collective
Names of the Expert: Amit Kumar Singh, Ankit Yadav, Divya Pandey, Shakshi Jain, Rajat Kant, Rajat Mehrotra, Shikhar Singh, Shriyak Singh, Stuti Choudhary, Sushil Gupta
No. of Participants:35
Brief Description of Event:
Prologue:
The idea of `space` and `place` require each other for definition. From the security and stability of a place to the openness and freedom of a space. It is an intricate balance. If we think of space that which allows movement, then place is the pause; each pause in movement makes it possible for location to be transformed into place. (Mostly after Tuan)
Place stands for both an object and a way of looking at it.
Two key components emerge for a space to become place:
- Time
- Meaning acquired over time
To that effect, a space which acquires meaning over time, becomes place.
Environmental designers have always grappled with these two constants to work on space and try to convert them to place.
If this broad oversimplification is used as a starting point, there are the physical tangibles available to us such as:
scale, enclosure, colour, texture, rhythm, balance, harmony and the like.
And then there the physical ones such as:
culture, proxemics, gender, equity, democracy and the like.
Each designer uses the physical tools as understood trying to translate the physical ingredients to convert a space into a place. Time and meaning are the permanent constants.
Rest are all variables.
The workshops aims and objectives:
This workshop being conducted by School of Architecture and Planning, Babu Banarsi Das University in association with Lucknow Urban Designers Collective will try not only to understand the constants and variables, but will also try to look as to how these can be actually translated on the ground with a hands-on experience.
Two more important issues addressed:
1.The idea of stakeholders and their significance in an environmental design context.
2.The idea of publicness of places.
The structure of workshop:
Phase one:was completed by the faculty of SOAP BBDU by 1300 hrs on 20.10.2023
- To identify two stakeholder groups (one set of undergraduate students and one set of post grad students) and ask them to submit one page of A4 comprising of ten issues which they like about any `place` in the campus.
- The medium of expression is left to the choice of participant: writing, sketching, pictures, pastels, water colours anything.
- A google meet conference at 173o hrs on 20.10.2023(link to be generated by SOAP,BBDU) for a brainstorming on the issues of concern. This will link all participants for about an hour.
- Identification of two `non places` by the SOAP,BBDU for design exploration.
Phase two: 09:00 hours on 27.10.2023
- 30 minutes presentation by the Lucknow Urban Designers Collective in terms of formalizing the learning so far.
- Crystallizing issues of concerns arising out of the presentation and the ensuing discussion.
- Break the students class into a group of 5-6 people each mapped with one/two members of LUDC to start exploring one or two issues each.(maximum of four groups)
- Post lunch studio development by each group till 1630 hours.
- Presentation by each group and putting it all together.
- 18:00 hours closure.
Date (s):27thOCTOBER,2023