Course No.: 848199
Teaching: Santosh Kumar Ketham
Climate change is a critical global issue, and flooding is one of the major challenges affecting billions of people worldwide. This is a highly important and timely topic, making it a pressing need of the hour. Therefore, it is essential to collectively document, discuss, design, and develop effective strategies. It is time to act, react, and reflect together. These strategies and ideas must be grounded in the specific place, climate, context, culture, crises, traditions, and locally available materials.
The course proposes that communities and institutions should collectively reflect on flooding scenarios in order to counter the long-term impacts of climate change. This collective methodology follows a bottom-up approach to studying, thinking, building, evaluating, and negotiating communicative formats of speculative design.
The course will be informal in nature, encouraging open discussions and welcoming the perspectives of all creative individuals. It draws upon participants’ ingenuity and collaborative efforts to address the challenge. Emphasis will be placed on collaborative learning and the development of positive, innovative responses. Students may choose any medium for presentations, including sketching, painting, drafting, software-generated drawings, threedimensional or physical models, and photography. It is essential that the speculative designs are easily understood by lay audiences when exhibited. Topics such as flooding cities, speculative design, and collective approaches will be discussed in greater detail during the first session.
Selected projects from the course will be presented in atraveling exhibition worldwide and published in a special publication.
