NIT Calicut international conference

Hello!!! I want to know about the international conference held in NIT Calicut so kindly provide me the details related to the conference????

[Kiran Chandar]

As you are asking about the conference which was held in NIT Calicut so here I am providing you the details below.

NIT Calicut 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 discover 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 relics are no exceptions! Until last century they have had miscellaneous cultures with distinct ways of life and fitting artistic 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, they 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.

Contact Details:

National Institute of Technology
NIT CAMPUS PO,
Kettangal Koduvally Road,
Kozhikode, Kerala 673601
Phone: 0495 228 6100

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