ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS

This course aims to capacitate students to experience the environment as a set of interconnected networks which balance each other to constantly generate rhythmic flows of resources. These networks include the negotiations between the human, non human, socio economic, socio cultural and socio political flows that are dynamic in nature. This course seeks  to ask  how does architecture participate in the interconnections that alter, interrupt, break, prolong, hinder, stunt certain cycles that privilege or suppress life forms? What are its subsequent repercussions for the interspecies? How do they alter the existence of different life forms? This course will investigate and explore design possibilities that negotiate these relationships. The interventions will focus on ecologically sensitive terrain and intervene by asking ‘how can architecture be an instrument for ecologically equity?