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Potency of the Vernacular Settlements Recent Scholarships in Vernacular Studies
The 11th ISVS (International Seminar for Vernacular Settlements) that was hosted by the School of Environmental Design and Architecture, Navrachana University brought together some important ideas and concerns as related to questions of development at large and vernacular settlements. From questions of ecological balance, use of resources and the way of the pastoral to the ones concerning technology, design and materiality of built environment. The 11th ISVS will be remembered as one that brought whole generation of young and talented scholars in the foreground. Many of them had carried out extensive field work to support their research. The seminar was also remarkable from the point of view of extensive representation of vernacular traditions in different part of the Indian Sub-continent and Southeast Asia along with a range of theoretical concerns.
1. People’s Habitat: Social Production Process as a Driving
Force Towards Vernacular-Modern Linkage
• Surabhi Patil, L.S. Raheja School of Architecture, Mumbai, India
• Aishwarya Warad, L.S. Raheja School of Architecture, Mumbai, India
2. Learning From Leuit: The Remains of Sundanese Vernacular
Architecture’s Rice Barn
• Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, Department of Architecture, Universitas
Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia
• Rizki Dwika Aprilian, History, Theory, Vernacular & Heritage
Architecture Lab, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
3. Adaptation of Vernacular Architecture in the Bajo Mola
Tribe Facing Modernity
• Kinayung Syafira Aratuza, Department of Architecture,
Universitas Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia
• Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, Department of Architecture,
Universitas Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia
• Yulia Nurliani Harahap, Department of Architecture,
Universitas Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia
4. Vernacular Architecture of Batak as Tourism Commodities
in North Sumatera Province, Indonesia
• Titien Saraswati, Duta Wacana Christian University,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
5. Transformations in the Vernacular Buildings of Nagaland, India
• Rongsentila Imsong, Department of Architecture and Planning,
Malviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India
• Ashwani Kumar, Department of Architecture and Planning,
Malviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India
6. Exploring Fire Hazard Vulnerability of Traditional Residential
Buildings in Walled City of Jaipur
• Shipra Goswami, Department of Architecture & Planning,
MNIT Jaipur, India
• Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Department of Architecture & Planning,
MNIT Jaipur, India
• Dr. Satish Pipralia, Department of Architecture & Planning,
MNIT Jaipur, India
Sub Theme: The Urban Question
7. Modern Vernacular Buildings: Rethinking the Green Building
Rating Systems
• Radhika Garg, School of Architecture and Planning, Apeejay
Institute of Technology, Greater Noida, India
• Kamini Singh, School of Architecture and Planning, Apeejay
Institute of Technology, Greater Noida, India
8. Indian Historic Cities and Complexity Theory: A Case of Jodhpur
• Manan Singhal, IIDEA, Indus University, Ahmedabad, India
9. Understanding the Functioning of Traditional Market Streets in
the City of Palanpur
• Krupa Chaudhary, India
10. Re-Translation of Dayaknese Vernacular Material Culture
into Postcolonial City of Palangka Raya through
Urban Physiognomy
• Mandarin Guntur, Universitas Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia
• Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, Universitas Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia
• Dalhar Sutanto, Universitas Indonesia, West Java, Indonesia
11. Adaptation of Vernacular Way Forward for Future Urbanization
• Shilpa Sharma, Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture,
Mumbai, India
Sub Theme: Resilience and Adaptations
12. Evaluating Traditional Knowledge Systems through Bio-Cultural
Approach: A Shift Towards Sustainable Management of Resources
• Sneha Anand, Centre for Environment Planning & Technology,
Ahmedabad, India
13. The Dynamics of Changing Living Environment of
Villages at the Urban-Rural Interface – the Case of Vadodara
• Dr. Bhawana Vasudeva, Department of Architecture, Faculty of
Technology and Engineering, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of
Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India
14. Comfort of Public space in Town Center of Barkur – A Capital
Port Town of 12th Century Coastal Karnataka
• Deepika Shetty, Professor, Manipal School of Architecture and
Planning, MAHE, India
• Sharada Shetty, Student, Manipal School of Architecture and
Planning, MAHE, India
Sub Theme: Hybridity and Coexistence
15. Colonization as Shared Heritage: The Case of British
Establishments at Cannanore
• Anjali C, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
16. Re-interpreting Rules of Vernacular Practices for
Contemporary Built Form within an Urban Setting
• Advaita Jalan, School of Environmental Design and Architecture,
Navrachana University, Vadodara, India
Sub Theme: Landscape, Ecology, and Setting
17. Dwelling and Landscape Setting: Continuity of Cultural
Ideas in the Dwellings of Udaipur
• Pragya Shankar, School of Environmental Design and
Architecture, Navrachana University, Vadodara, India
18. Notion of Dwelling: Transhumance Pastoralists Raika
Community, Rajasthan
• Muskan Chopra, India
19. Challenges in Preserving the Revered Character of Sacred
Groves of Udupi District, Western Ghats – Karnataka
• Lavanya Vikram, School of Architecture, Ramaiah Institute of
Technology, Bangalore, India
• Dr. Monalisa Bhardwaj, School of Architecture, Ramaiah Institute
of Technology, Bangalore, India
• Aruna Gopal, School of Architecture, Ramaiah Institute of
Technology, Bangalore, India
20. Point of Hybrid: Negotiating between Development Activities
and Ecological Processes along Land-Water Mediation
• Priyanka Sanjay Kanhare, Department of Landscape Architecture,
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
• Dr. Aarti Grover, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of
Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
21. Exploring the Responsive Human Imprints through
Landscapes of Faith, Case Study: Nashik and Paithan
• Ritu Sharma, Manipal University, Jaipur, India
• Richa Jagatramka, School of Planning and Design,
Manipal University, Jaipur, India
22. Vernacular Water Conservation Traditions by Pastoral
Community: Study of Virdas, Banni Grasslands, Kutch
• Manali Bhadra, School of Environmental Design and Architecture,
Navrachana University, Vadodara, India
Sub Theme: Craft Traditions and Tectonics
23. Distinctive Poetics and Craftsmanship in the Vernacular
Building Traditions of Kumaon: Case of Almora
• Shubhra Pande, School of Architecture, MS Ramaiah Institute of
Technology, Bangalore and BMS School of Architecture, Bangalore, India
• Monalisa Bhardwaj, MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology,
Bangalore, India
• Pushplata Garg, Department of Architecture and Planning,
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
24. Limasan-Learning from the Past for the Better Future:
Socially Engaged Architecture
• Linda Octavia, Architecture Department, Faculty of Architecture and
Design, Duta Wacana Christian University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
25. Saharanpur Woodcraft: Investigating Adaptive Practices of
Vernacular Cultures for Sense of Place in Contemporary Design
• Dr. Ritu Gulati, Faculty of Architecture & Planning, AKTU,
Lucknow, India
26. Tenable Craft Practices: A Study of Clay Pottery at Kumbharwada
• Shalini Amin, School of Environmental Design and Architecture,
Navrachana University, Vadodara, India
• Sanjana Samel-Ambekar, School of Environmental Design and
Architecture, Navrachana University, Vadodara, India
• Krunali Rathod, School of Environmental Design and
Architecture, Navrachana University, Vadodara, India
27. Adaptive Reuse of Traditional Buildings of Dhundhar
Region in Rajasthan: A Revival of Local Building Crafts
• Kanika Goyal, Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma
University, Ahmedabad, India
• Jitendra Menghani, Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma
University, Ahmedabad, India
28. Role of Building Materials in Contemporary Vernacular
Architectural Expression: Case Study of Konkan Region
• Vinit Mirkar, IES College of Architecture, Mumbai, India
• Qamar Irshad, Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics,
Jamia Millia Islamia, India
Biography
Prof. Pratyush Shankar
Prof. Pratyush Shankar is a practicing architect and an academic. He is currently the Provost of Navrachana University and the Dean of SEDA, Navrachana University, Vadodara, India. He is also a Guest Professor at the Mundus Urbano Program at Architecture Faculty, TU Darmstadt, Germany. He was awarded the Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship in 2015 and was hosted at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is presently the International Ambassador of the University of Bonn Prof. Pratyush Shankar was the Acting Dean of Architecture and head of the Undergraduate Program at CEPT University and has been teaching Urban History and Design for many years now. He has authored the book titled “Himalayan Cities: Settlement Pattern, Public Places and Architecture” published by Niyogi Publishers, New Delhi, 2014. His latest book titled “History of Urban Form”, got published in September, 2023, by Oxford University Press. Apart from numerous book chapters and articles Prof. Pratyush Shankar was widely lectured and delivered public talks in Europe, South East Asia and India. He has received numerous International fellowships and awards for his work on Indian Architecture and Cities. Prof. Pratyush Shankar has held the position of Secretary, ISVS since 2007 Prof. Pratyush Shankar runs a design practice along with his academic interest. The practice is critical and innovative, and tries to look at questions of architectural production especially concerning new relationships with nature, idea of light and poetics in space. Prof. Pratyush Shankar was awarded the Ford Asia fellowship in 2008 and won the JK Cement Architect of the year award in 2013 for residential design. He was recently appointed member of expert committee of Niti Aayog on “Hill Architecture and Planning”.
