Announcing 1st International Conference on 'REINVENTING DESIGN PEDAGOGY AND CONTEXTUAL AESTHETlCS (ICDPCA 2015)- Thanima'
vivek puthan purayil
Dear colleague,
We have great pleasure in announcing, the 1st International Conference on ‘REINVENTING DESIGN PEDAGOGY AND CONTEXTUAL AESTHETlCS (ICDPCA 2015)- Thanima’, jointly organized by the Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology Calicut(NITC), Kerala and Indian Institute of Architects(IIA), Calicut Center. The conference is scheduled during 30th and 31st January 2015 at NIT Calicut.
Objective of the Conference
The Objective of the Conference is to explore various aspects of aesthetics- its formation, conditioning, politics, connection with culture and ways of teaching design (pedagogy). This is also an open invitation for collaborative research in allied areas as well.
The theme
The visual experience of modern spaces all over the world is beginning to look alike. In this regard, architecture and artifacts are no exceptions! Until last century we have had diverse cultures with distinct ways of life and fitting aesthetic sensibilities. The homogenization of human cultures is one of the biggest challenges of modernity to be addressed by both academia and practice. The real issue is to understand how aesthetic sensibilities as manifested by the things they make and the spaces they employ are inextricably linked to the cultural context. It is the innate need of the system for its aesthetics to respond to cultural needs and nurture cultural diversity of local contexts. Modernity as embraced in most contexts (let it be art, architecture or theater) bluntly deny this.
In the present era, education conditions and homogenizes the sensibility of people through the way it imparts lessons in art, architecture, design etc. (to begin with). In the process, we are neglecting vibrant contextual elements and thereby constructing a generic world lacking humane facets of design. So if aesthetic awareness through education is reinvented as awakening the senses through creating situations to connect to the natural context of the learner, authentic diverse cultures can stage a comeback. Through this approach, the organizers sincerely hope that if not in full, at least a part of our lost sensibilities can be regained. Conference is poised to be a form to do this on a continuous basis from time to time.
Topics
> The topics include, but are not restricted to the following:
> Traditional and indigenous Aesthetics of different regions including from India.
> Aesthetics of Sustainable architecture.
> Social and political consciousness of Aesthetics – its genesis and transformation.
> Aesthetics born out of materials.
> Homogenization of Aesthetic sense: School as a homogenizing element – Architecture, Theatre, Art, Literature.
> Teaching Aesthetics – New explorations and possibilities.
> Vernacular architecture and Aesthetic sensitivity.
> Change in perception of Aesthetics- as reflected in interiors and landscape.
> Green building norms and Aesthetics.
> Please visit our website www.icdpca2015.nitc.ac.in for more details and important deadlines. Kindly send in your abstract in relevant areas for making it a meaningful process. Also please post this information on other connected forums as well. Your valuable inputs on any allied areas may be sent to icdpc...@nitc.ac.in.
> With Kind regards,
> Dr. P.P. Anilkumar,
> Head,
> Department of Architecture, NITC,
>And
> Ar. Vinod Cyriac,
> Chairman, IIA Calicut Centre,
> Organizing Chairs, ICDPCA 2015.
