#TVES S1Ep13 Akshar, Heer, Ujjwala on Kurala Verkey Design Forum (KVDF) at CEPT #TheVivekEadaraShow

The Vivek Eadara Show

What is KVDF?

The Kurula Varkey Design Forum is one of the largest student organised architectural forums in the country. Since its inception in 2000,it has strived to critically question the discipline of architecture and its manifestations at the given time through student projects as take-off points. The forum invites undergraduate student projects from over 100 architecture schools across South Asia, of which a few are selected as generators of the discourse. The forum further invites practitioners, academicians, and young graduates from across the globe to participate in curated discussions exploring pressing subjects and themes vital to the discipline.This year the forum brings together final year projects from various architectural schools to foster discussions on current debates with a focus on the role of architects in the evolving context of intertwined complexities of human-non human, architect-client, privileged-marginalized, iconicity-adaptability, collaborative practice-independent practitioner binaries that have inherently influenced the practice and discourse of architecture.

You can find more details about KVDF: kvdforum.in

or their instagram handle: instagram.com/kvdforum

The conveners for this year's forum are Akshar Gajjar, Heer Shah and Ujjvala Krishna.

About the conveners

Akshar Gajjar is a fresh graduate from Faculty of architecture CEPT University. He interned at Busride Design Studio in Mumbai and then went to ETH Zurich for an exchange semester. His research interests lie in imagining architecture as an adaptive threshold for human non-human relationships to flourish. His research thesis “Adapting Multispecies Studies into Architectural Thinking” is a step forward in developing a new lens and method of looking at the built environment.

Heer Shah is a fresh graduate from Cept University.She has worked with Masaki Kato in Tokyo, Japan. She feels that the lines between an architect, urban designer, interior, product designer etc is quite blurred and believes all of this lies under the realm of design. She has worked on various projects ranging from design of an amplifier to a Tamagawa Metro Station in Tokyo. Her final year project was on criticism in architecture, and challenged the tendency to iconize the architectural project - Sangath within our disciplinary discourse by a persistent curiosity to understand it as a part of the built environment, assessing its viability and limitations through a systematic inquiry into the conditions and consequences of its design.

Ujjvala is a 23-year-old architecture graduate with a strong inclination to right all things wrong in the world, yet knows that solely a propensity to do so is not enough! She believes that architecture is something that initiates curiosity and a constant demand for logic and hopes to continue navigating through various new avenues of design and research, all the while learning through her experiences.

THE VIVEK EADARA SHOW

Hi ! My name is Vivek Eadara and i am a student of Architecture. My love for Art, Travel and Photography made me realise my undying passion for Architecture. I have always loved having conversation with people who are just as passionate about architecture and travel as I am, and this podcast is just that. The idea of starting an Architecture Podcast series is an initiative to interact and create a dialogue with well-known industry professionals, emerging young Architects and aspiring architecture students to converse about one’s personal and professional experiences that may find way in helping others, areas of concern within the fraternity, some fun trivial chats and many more.