KRVIA Exhibition

Allowed the mind to be bombarded with ideas visuals and perspectives on the city i call home. Make/Shift Mumbai achieved 2 things.

1- it was a semi-interactive kind of exhibition, normally mounted by visual media artists/people. so it was a refreshing change from the typical "lift the sheets" or "scan across the panel" methods of architectural documentation. At the fundamental level, it was cool. Lacked some spunk. lacked a sense of "come and see this!!!" enthusiasm. I may be wrong, since i saw it on the last day.

It was quite evident that lots of hard work, dedication and a pride of belonging went into compiling the mammoth body of work. Technology played traunt at times, i am told. but its ok. technology is meant to play traunt otherwise it ain't technology.

2- It raised questions on "how do we see the city"? some of the thesis explorations were adventurous (not yet radical..radical in the good sense is becoming more and more hard to use as a positive word. Couldn't news journalists find a different word to connote negative social perspective??)and i thoroughly enjoyed them, oblivious to the fact of hogging the screen. Bacha-log told me (very courteously of course)dat i was. Funny thing is, they took my permission so dat they could tell me exactly dat. hahaha!

As a bonus, met some friends from LB Hiray COA. It was a pleasure meeting them, and getting to know that the entire batch is still together as a class, no one's fallen behind.That batch had personality. Hardworking kids; atleast in my Basic Design studio, when i was there a few years ago.

So, will this exhibition foster possibilities in architectural pedagogy elsewhere? Will other colleges emulate these efforts? Do they have to? Hmmm...someone else can answer dat.But then testicular fortitude isn't everyone's forte. As Pink Floyd put it... "The time is gone, the song is over, thought i had something more to say..."

One thing is for sure though- KRVIA has raised the bar for its own sake. :)

Hmmm...missed the opening ceremony; not that i was missed. but getting used to missing opening ceremonies. seems to be a pattern in life.