PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Architecture as a space of contested identity: A Study of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite (2019)
Manisha Kalita and Riya Jindal
As humans, the space we occupy forms an integral part of our understanding of the self, and consequently affects that space as well, since they do not exist in isolation but in tandem with each other, the space reflects in its very nature, the components of self. This is accurately explained by the term ‘Place Identity’ coined by Harold M. Proshansky, who defined it as ‘those dimensions of self that define the individual's personal identity in relation to the physical environment by means of a complex pattern of conscious and unconscious ideas, feelings, values, goals, preferences, skills, and behavioral tendencies relevant to a specific environment.’
(Dis)abled Spaces :
A Configuration of Home
Sreelakshmi Nair
This paper aims towards a Foucaltian reading of what constitutes ‘home’ for a person with disability, wherein the hardness, repetitiveness and mundanity of ‘everydayness’ - the pre-supposed banality of it is perhaps what is home to a disabled person is realized, what then is disabled are the spaces one inhabits, which doesn’t accommodate that disability bringing the context of geographical disabilities at play where the provision of what is ‘home’ to one is not been made accessible and thereby a denial of their being.This paper highlights the play between Home as metaphor and Home as a physical space.
Understanding Conflict of Space in Devdas by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Ishaan Bhargav
Space is a fundamental, ineliminable dimension of existence, which manifests itself in every aspect of material, psychological and social life. The essence of space transcends material reality, thus when this space is encroached upon, it is disrupted or even uprooted it results in altering the identity of self. Such was the effect of British colonialism in India. The space of every individual was altered to a permanent effect. The forced hybridization between the Indian and British ideals resulted in the creation of a man who was conflicted in every sense of the word.
The Canvas-Space of the Self: Decoding Partition Trauma Narratives in Art History
Sara Batool and Aadrit Banerjee
India’s emergence as an independent nation was marred by the horrors of a Partition drawn on sketchy lines that split the country apart, and led to what is commonly described as the division of hearts, inflicting a deep sense of trauma upon the individual, and leaving entire generations of communities fraught with a sense of social as well as psychological instability. The memories of Partition that severed the coherent sense of space and self — otherwise repressed, undocumented and otherised — found their expression in trauma narratives.