| Event Name | Tekton-Talk |
| Academic Year | 2019-20 |
| Date | 17th January, 2020 |
| Time | 6.30 - 9.30 p.m. |
| Coordinator | Prof. Smita Dalvi |
| Faculty Team | Prof. Jinu Kurien, Prof. Abhijit Sahasrabudhe |
| Venue | Urban Haat, Belapur, Navi Mumbai |
| Attended by | Public lecture attended by students and teachers of various architecture colleges and members of general public |
| Speakers Invited | 1. Sudhir Patwardhan – An eminent artist “City and Me: ways of relating to the city” Discussant: Ms. Amrita Gupta Singh, Art Historian and member of NCL – New City Limits 2. Rohan Shivkumar and Avijit Mukul Kishor – architects and filmmakers Screening of the documentary, “Lovely Villa” |
| Number of people present | 400 |
“Tekton-Talks”- is a bi-annual public lecture series as an extension activity of our Tekton Journal.
The January 2020 Tekton-Talks were held in collaboration with ‘Mindscape Festival’ – a public festival of ideas, organized every year by X-Pican, our alumni association and the student body. The latest issue of Tekton volume 6, issue 1 edited by Dr. Aruna Reddi was released at the hands of the guest speakers and the chairman of MES.
We had two talks – the first was by Sudhir Patwardhan, India’s top most artist. Patwardhan discussed several of his paintings that chronicle and comment on the urbanity of Bombay and its outskirts. We collaborated with the ‘New City Limits’ (NCL) – a non-profit group for promotion of arts in Navi Mumbai. Ms. Amrita Gupta Singh from NCL conducted a discussion with the artist post his presentation.
The second event was screening of the documentary ‘Lovely Villa’ by Rohan Shivkumar. It is the name of the apartment building where the filmmaker grew up in LIC colony designed by Charles Correa. This is a film about the relationship between architecture, everyday life, family and memory of ‘home’.
Both events were followed by Q/A from the audience.
