SWS - Summer/Winter 2020 Output Booklet

SUMMER - WINTER SCHOOL 2020

Acknowledgements HEAD Mercy Samuel

OVERALL COORDINATION Manisha Asrani Aazoo Daswani

DESIGN AND LAYOUT William George Kennedy Zalak Patel

COVER PAGE IMAGE COURTESY [SWS: Lost in Translation] Shobha Alias Pallavi Mahesh Malkarnekar

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About Summer Winter School A leading university in the field of human habitat, CEPT University focuses on understanding, designing, planning, constructing and managing human habitats. Its teaching programs build thoughtful professionals and its research programs deepen understanding of human settlements.

The Summer and Winter School at CEPT University provide students varied, intensive and unique educational experiences far beyond the structured classroom. It is an independent learning module apart from the regular 16-week semester and the courses offered are outside of their core curriculum.

Each year in summer and winter, short duration courses are offered ranging from 2 weeks to 4 weeks.

Due to the Pandemic, CEPT University have offered the courses online. These courses cover a wide range of subjects and domains including the fine arts like drawing, sculpture, installations to the humanities and history to construction and design creating an interdisciplinary environment of learning. They also allow students to travel to near and far away places for study and greater exposure.

Faculty members from CEPT or other universities, or practicing professionals may offer courses at the Summer and Winter School. It provides faculty members with opportunities that allow them to experiment with pedagogic tools and teaching methods.

Courses in these programs are open to students of CEPT and other universities from India and abroad. Many courses are also open to professionals. It gives students an opportunity to interact with other students & professionals having a variety of insights and opinions. The intention is that students from diverse backgrounds along with professionals interacting with one another will lead to unique and fulfilling learning experience for all. CEPT students will be able to take advantage of the breadth of summer - winter course offerings to meet their degree requirements. Other students and professionals can take summer and winter courses to seek exposure to national and international practices, advance research skills and pursue professional career goals. Students and professionals may choose from a variety of courses that either involve a study trip to a foreign country, a study trip within India or studio, workshop or lecture based courses to be undertaken at CEPT Campus.

Regular announcements of the courses on offer and other specifics will be posted on the CEPT University website www.cept.ac.in or sws.cept.ac.in

This book presents a compilation of details and methodology of the courses that were conducted in summer and winter schools during the year 2020. Through this, we intend to depict the richness and diversity of courses offered and outputs generated. It showcases the work of 952 students with guidance from 94 course instructors for 50 courses.

Extended thanks to all the faculty members and students associated with Summer and Winter School courses in 2020

SUMMER WINTER SCHOOL

Course List Architecture Course Name

Instructor

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SUMMER SCHOOL 2020 Memory as Poetry..................................................................................................................................................................

Sahiba Gulati........................................................................

11

Reading about/around Buildings: Expanding the Field of Architecture......................................................................

Kaiwan Mehta......................................................................

12

Re-imagining Public Affairs in (post) Pandemic Cities (in collaboration with Polimi, Italy)...................................

Sachin Soni, Giulia Setti, Arian Heidari Afshani.............

13

Adaptive reuse_an exploration of its design process and potentials .........................................................................

Manali Nanavati, Shilpa Mevada.......................................

14

Art of Storytelling: A Visual Narrative Of People and Places.........................................................................................

Priyanka Kanhare.................................................................

15

Memory as Poetry..................................................................................................................................................................

Sahiba Gulati.........................................................................

16

Millennial Homes – Needs and Desires.............................................................................................................................

Deven Bhatt .........................................................................

17

Parametricism & Geometrical Logic in Indian Temples.................................................................................................

Joy Mondal, Soumya Dasgupta........................................

18

Power, Paint and Public Walls..............................................................................................................................................

Bhavin Shah .........................................................................

19

Reincarnating Cities: Tracing religio-political influences on Indian architecture & planning................................

Karan Saharya, Vaissnavi Shukl.........................................

20

Re-imagining Public Affairs in (post) Pandemic Cities (in collaboration with Polimi, Italy)...................................

Sachin Soni, Giulia Setti......................................................

21

Shifting Landscapes – Armature and Processes..............................................................................................................

Divya Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti.................................

22

Space Making through Photography..................................................................................................................................

Subin Selva............................................................................

23

The Design-Research Continuum in Contemporary India: Visualizing Modes of Practice...................................

Kruti Shah, Sebastian Trujillo ............................................

24

Theories of Deconstruction, Post-modernism and minimalism..................................................................................

Percy Pithawala, Dhruv Shah............................................

25

Urban installation....................................................................................................................................................................

Vishal Pawar, Pranav Meghani..........................................

26

Ways of Seeing Structure......................................................................................................................................................

Vinod. Shah, Mangesh Belsare ........................................

27

Understanding Scientific Research – Its Relevance for Architecture, Planning and Design.................................

Mukesh Patel, Pruthvi Thakur............................................

29

Urban Water Systems............................................................................................................................................................

Mona Iyer, Gargi Mishra.....................................................

30

WASH in Emergencies............................................................................................................................................................

Saswat Bandyopadhyay and Siddh Doshi......................

31

WINTER SCHOOL 2020

Planning SUMMER SCHOOL 2020

Course Name

Instructor

Page no.

WINTER SCHOOL 2020 Coastal Development, Vulnerability and Resilience: Sri Lanka And India ...............................................................

Madhu Bharti, Neeru Bansal............................................

32

Decoding Iran: Principles of Contemporary Architecture/Urbanism Through Successful Practice..................

Mehrnaz Amiraslani, Reza Ghafouri..............................

33

Understanding Scientific Research – Its Relevance for Architecture, Planning and Design...............................

Mukesh Patel, Pruthvi Thakur..........................................

34

For Smart Urban Development........................................................................................................................................

Preeti Inamdar, Ashish Deshpande, Supriya Nehe.....

35

SUMMER SCHOOL 2020 Branding 101..........................................................................................................................................................................

Ruchi Mehta........................................................................

37

Origami and the Zen Experience......................................................................................................................................

Anand Viswanathan...........................................................

38

Art for Design Sake...............................................................................................................................................................

Jagrut Raval........................................................................

39

Creating Impactful Short Films..........................................................................................................................................

Tanmay Shah......................................................................

40

Forms of Calligraphy Through Design Principles..........................................................................................................

Hiral Bhagat........................................................................

41

Integrating natural patterns and compuational method to develop parametric furniture...................................

Jinal Shah............................................................................

42

Lost in Translation................................................................................................................................................................

Priya Narayanan, Ananya Parikh.....................................

43

The art of craft: Deciphering the design principles in Indian folk Art.......................................................................

Nisha Vikram, Udit Parekh...............................................

44

The Origami Mantra.............................................................................................................................................................

Anand Viswanathan...........................................................

45

Claims and Disputes in Construction Industry...............................................................................................................

Reshma Shah......................................................................

47

Project Risk Management-Learning’s Through Case Studies.....................................................................................

Jyoti Trivedi, Goutam Dutta.............................................

48

Research Analysis and Hypothesis Testing...................................................................................................................

Jimmy Sethur.....................................................................

49

STAAD software and its application in Structural Engineering Practice...................................................................

Dhara Shah..........................................................................

50

Design

WINTER SCHOOL 2020

Technology SUMMER SCHOOL 2020

Course Name

Instructor

Page no.

WINTER SCHOOL 2020 Data Science and Machine Learning for Everyone.........................................................................................................

Aditya shah............................................................................

51

Introduction To Digital Twin For Built Environment.......................................................................................................

Jyoti Trivedi ..........................................................................

52

Location Intelligent................................................................................................................................................................

Darshana Rawal, Salvatore Amaduzzi.............................

53

Writing for Impact..................................................................................................................................................................

Yateendra Joshi...................................................................

54

Cities, Covid and Technology..............................................................................................................................................

Gayathri Doctor...................................................................

57

Financial Markets....................................................................................................................................................................

Rajnikant Trivedi..................................................................

58

Impact of Change in Built Environment............................................................................................................................

Nimit Karia...........................................................................

59

Pragati Goyal, Siddhant Garg...........................................

60

Business Management Essentials........................................................................................................................................

Avik Munshi...........................................................................

63

Smart Cities: Role of Engineers in Urban Transformation..............................................................................................

Bhavin Shah..........................................................................

63

Management SUMMER SCHOOL 2020

WINTER SCHOOL 2020 21st Century Professional Skills............................................................................................................................................

Other Courses

Architecture

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Memory as Poetry By: Sahiba Gulati The course set out to achieve two thingsThe first was to enable students to use poetry as a medium of expression to understand that their memories can stand to discuss larger issues and narratives in society, that their identities become larger collective identities.

The second was to enable students to start situating these memories in space so that they can use this fundamental aspect of identity to discuss spaces and their relationship with our everyday lives. In the final pieces while some students chose to write poetry as social commentary, others situated their memories in space, and some were able to do both. The course was structured such that each day students were introduced to different forms of poems and different rules, conventions and expressions in poetry. After analysing spoken word poetry for these aspects, students were asked to free write about a memory that comes naturally to them and share with the class for discussion. This was the first time that most students were attempting to write a poem, thus initially the focus was on how one can convey a memory in written form. In the last two days students analysed poems that weaved in commentary on space through their memories. Students attempted to apply this to their own poems to answer the question that how can space become a tool in writing about a memory, what role does it play in your memory? How can you talk about space through a poem? This is a tool that can be used by professionals working with the built environment to convey socio-spatial processes. Students also analysed poems that through the poets’ own memories became a commentary on society. This enabled them to write more freely about topics that are not discussed often.

Credits: 2 Participants

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Divyanshi Srivastava Navnit Sourirajan Toshniwal Pooja Gangaprasad Birlangi Pramod Kumar Priya R Akshat Sthapak

Roshni Kannan Satyam Shukla Desai Divyesh Barot Priva M Jaykumar Suthar

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Reading about/ around Buildings: Expanding the Field of Architecture By: Kaiwan Mehta This course basically focused on two things, in terms of content it was the intention to expand the students understanding and imagination about architecture, and this was intended through a series of readings, and so the second intent was developing a reading practice and method. The course brought a variety of texts to the students in about 11 bundles – focusing on editorial and curatorial writing, on academic and theoretical texts, interviews and essays, fiction as well as philosophical writings, journalistic and biographical texts, studies from visual and cultural theory – the range was vast but the intention was to build a level of recognition for the student with the variety available. Every session turned into an intensive collective reading - where the tutor read selected extracts from different texts, and in the processes annotated them, explained them in their context and hyperlinks, as well as connected with experiences available at hand – in a way through the process of demonstration the methodologies required to read texts was delivered at the student’s doorstep.

The course did not expect formal writing exercises or training – rather the students were encouraged to actively make notes during a reading-lecture session and then transform them into specific thought-collation formats such as identification of very specific key ideas to develop brief but crisp elaborations, or make mindmaps and flowcharts, frame aphoristic essays, or actually sit with a text and annotate it. At the end of each session a very specific exercise was defined for this process.

The cumulative discussions always focused on shaping architecture practice, emphasizing how practice engages with change and how it will need to expand.

Credits: 3 Participants

ASIJIT KHAN CHAUHAN BHAVIK R DEEPTHI VARGHESE JAYATI ANAND KISHOR MISRA K MOUNISHA SPOORTHI KOTTAI SHREYA SHARMA SURATI RICHA DIVYESH TANYA KAUSHIK

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Re-imagining Public Affairs in (post) Pandemic Cities (in collaboration with Polimi, Italy) By: Sachin Soni, Giulia Setti, Arian Heidari Afshani This course was offered as a part of ongoing SWS collaboration between Politecnico di Milano, and CEPT University with an emphasis to understand various facets of public life and public spaces from architectural and urban studies perspectives. Using the backdrop of the ongoing covid19 pandemic, this course focused on reimagining the scenarios of public life in our habitats in thought-provoking and radical ways. Course used a framework of rituals, objects and settings to visualize public spaces in post-covid times. Pandemic has given rise to new rituals of everyday life such as social distancing, sanitisation and cleaning regimes, covering bodies, surveillance, etc. Objects such as distance markers, masks, gloves, sanitizers, temperature guns, mobile apps, etc. assisting these rituals have become ubiquitous.

These rituals and objects are transforming public spaces and they are becoming new settings in the pandemic.

Inspired by Edward Hopper’s paintings, the first exercise dealt with re-visualizing existing paintings in the context of covid19. Students identified key elements of paintings and modified them to convey the new meanings of public spaces. Main exercise was to re-imagining typologies of public spaces such as streets, squares/plazas, waterfronts, markets, transit hubs, etc. in the post-covid scenario.

Each group selected a typology of public space with two examples (one each from Indian and European contexts) allowing comparisons for similarities and differences of approaches to the pandemic. Students from both institutions work together in mixed groups and shared ideas, experiences and viewpoints to explore various themes and build innovative scenarios of transformation for their selected examples.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Rawoot Saadiya Ajaz Rukhsana Susmita Bhattacharya Swarali Santosh Kulkarni Twinkle Elizabeth John Vivin Shankar U Anindya Raina Dalal Sanjana Rikin Niravkumar Patel Patel Vishwa Jayesh Shivani Prajapati

Patel Chandni Bhailalbhai Deepanker Juan Carlos Tusso Gomez Anugrah Ram Kumar Madhura Dasnurkar Meghana M R Mishal Dodia Prakul Sardana Thakur Pruthvi Govind Raakesh Gandhi M P

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Adaptive reuse_ an exploration of its design process and potentials By: Manalee Nanavati, Shilpa Mevada The workshop had aimed to explore the process and potentials of adaptive reuse, which were explored on both programmatic as well as architectural levels.

The questions of ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do’ were inquired through structured step-by-step exercises and discussions. Working in multidisciplinary groups of 5, the students were allowed to choose the sites of their interest and were then guided to propose an adaptive reuse programme for their selected sites. They first learnt to understand the building, its contextual relationship and the dynamics of its significance for the stakeholders.

Based on this, they further analysed the need, possibilities and potentials for adaptive reuse. They were then guided for programme formation, design interventions and value judgements. Having the online mode of the workshop, these explorations were made through time bound exercises such as role-play of stakeholders, quick collage making, SWOT analysis and volumetric studies on 3D model. As the workshop focused on the understanding of the process and potentials (and not on the details of architectural solutions such as architectural language, materials, details etc.), the students were asked to compile the entire workshop process in the form of a booklet, on which they got a discussion from the invited guest juror, Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya.

Roleplay exercise: Collages of individual students exploring various stakeholders’ associated with the selected building.

Credits: 2 Participants

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Abhinaw Alok Mohammed Sirajuddin Aswin Senthil Divya Mehra Greeshma Susan Baby H R Sunya Himanshu Godara Savaliya Rutvij Undaviya Vishwa Hitesh Zahra Lokhandwala

Patel Dhaval Mahendrabhai Patel Shivani Jitendrakumar Tanna Karan Rajeshkumar Pracheta Acharya Priyank parmar Shah Khushi Dharmesh Pooja Chandra K Abhishek Dhriti Rajnikant Mistri Purbali Arun Maitra

volumetric studies for the built intervention by ‘Falawas_MAnekchowk’ group

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ART of STORYTELLING: A Visual Narrative of People and Places By: Priyanka Kanhare Journaling, as a narrative medium, is a way to express experiences/stories/memories of all the intangible associations that one has or develops byoccupying a space over a period of time. This eventually transforms them into powerful meaningful places that have stories to tell and worth documenting. This workshop offers insight on how observations and interpretations (stories) associated with people and places, be narrated by prioritizing drawing/ journaling as a skill and way of documenting. We as designers associate with people and places and think what we experienced have some significance. While doing so, we have memories of particular times, people and places that connect emotionally. The most common method of documenting is either by making architectural drawings or taking photographs. In doing so, often these narratives become two-dimensional, “flat” representations. These stories act as single layer representation that tells noting of culture, history, lifestyles, sensorial experiences, etc. Hence through the medium of journaling, one can develops a unique language of representation, which is a multiplelayered representation that takes one back and forth in time. The key learning outcome of this workshop will be to develop among designers, the ability to translate the intangible experiences, memories and associations that they develop with places, structures & landscapes, into a collective and interactive visual narrative

Credits: 3 Participants

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Anuja Patil Diya Benny Hardi Patel Mudit Mantri Priyanka Das Gupta Rhea Joseph Chirayath Krina Dhimar Krishi Jhaveri Khushboo Prashant Khushi Patel

Sampada Sathaye Sucheetra Pradhan Tripti Saravgi Pulkit Jain Uttara Gupta

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Memory as Poetry By: Sahiba Gulati The course set out to achieve two thingsThe first was to enable students to use poetry as a medium of expression to understand that their memories can stand to discuss larger issues and narratives in society, that their identities become larger collective identities. The second was to enable students to start situating these memories in space so that they can use this fundamental aspect of identity to discuss spaces and their relationship with our everyday lives. The course was structured such that each day students were introduced to different forms of poems and different rules, conventions and expressions in poetry. After analysing spoken word poetry for these aspects, students were asked to free write about a memory that comes naturally to them and share with the class for discussion. This was the first time that most students were attempting to write a poem, thus initially the focus was on how one can convey a memory in written form. In the last two days students analysed poems that weaved in commentary on space through their memories. Students attempted to apply this to their own poems to answer the question that how can space become a tool in writing about a memory, what role does it play in your memory? How can you talk about space through a poem? This is a tool that can be used by professionals working with the built environment to convey socio-spatial processes. Students also analysed poems that through the poets’ own memories became a commentary on society. This enabled them to write more freely about topics that are not discussed often.

The course culminated in a poetry slam event which was attended by students across CEPT. Credits: 2 Participants

Vaishnavi Ganesh Iyer Nikita Sanjay Patil Sahajramani Archita Dinesh Anindya Raina Bhatia Dhruv Mohan Kumar Aryan Mani Iyer Riya Singh Trivedi Bhavya Snehalbhai R A Yukta Shah Pooja Chirag

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Millennial Homes – Needs and Desires By: Deven Bhatt This course aims to provide a multidisciplinary reading of contemporary urban environments through political expressions such as graffiti, street art and other types of wall writing. The course will examine the role of these practices in the context of Indian cities and will contribute to the development of a critical capacity to read contemporary urban cultures. Wall surfaces play an important role in producing urban cultures around the world. Villages and small towns usually have textual messages on walls, advertising political parties, government policies, and ayurvedic medicine.

In denser urban areas, wall messages are commerce and art-driven, as part of government strategies of urban beautification and development. These surface messages are sites of local identities, where dialogues about belonging, visibility and publicness are carried out in public. They have been researched internationally through urban studies, public space semiotics, visual culture, legal geography and media studies, which we will draw from in our course to explore, record and analyse such examples from various Indian cities. The course will start with an overview of contemporary urban theories and introduce an international history of wall writing, graffiti and street art, to examine how these practices produce conversations about publicness and privacy, art and crime, transgression and the law. The course will be taught online through a series of synchronous lectures and seminars, and a range of asynchronous activities which students will undertake independently.

Credits: 2 Participants

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Sasidhar Mahanti Priyanka Mundra Virti Shah Prakul Sardana Satyajit Ramachandran Gurnani Dikshaa Ishwar Pooja Bodas Sanjana Vivek Sneha Somya Gupta Jahnvi Pathak Maulik Hasmukhbhai PrajapatiNeha

Neha Jatin Gandhi Nikita Nath Kshetrimayum Pratika Devi Maitreyi Sudhirbhai Popat Pavan Suthar

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Parametricism & Geometrical Logic in Indian Temples By: Joy Mondal, Soumya Dasgupta The course explored the question of how we can understand and interpret the underlying geometrical logic in the architectural forms of Indian Temples from the “past” through cutting edge parametric design platforms of Rhino and Grasshopper. Participants learnt parametric modeling techniques, understood the geometric aspects of Indian temples, and subsequently explored such geometries through exercises. Geometries of Indian Temples provided a rich and underexplored terrain of complex algorithms to understand the concepts of associative parameters (through the relationship of form and detailing), and iteration (by generating exhaustive lists of macro-level forms). The technique of Parametric Design opened new ways of interpreting the geometries.

It marked a paradigm shift where relationships between elements were used to manipulate and inform the design of geometries and structures. The focus shifted from the process of modeling geometry, to the process of defining geometry. The course was divided into four parts as following –Lecture on Indian Temple typologies from a formalist perspective while exploring their internal design algorithms,Technical training of Rhino & Grasshopper, Hands on exercises on building parametric script of various elements of Temples (inc arches, spire, mandapa, fractal geometry etc.), and Design charrette (individual assignment) to construct Parametric Essays + Parametric Explorations inspired by components of Indian Temples.

Credits: 2

Participants

Nivedhitha R Raj Yamgar Ayushi Mishra Gangavaram V S Raghavendra Rao Shiva Shishodia Tanna Karan Rajeshkumar Ruchitkumar Sanmukhbhai Patel Dharan Korduvar Gupta Harsh Aaradhya Parakh Ahan Pujari Anushka Chaudhary

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Arushi Goyal Tanishq Jain Teesta Singh Sarda Vedanshi Nikhil Aryan Choudhury Mansi Bharat Kothari Ushi Patel Zeel Dharmeshbhai Patel Arushi Hiwrekar Ojas Pramod Priyanka K Raman Jain Prateeti Neeraj Dalal Vaibhav Anmol Pareek

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Power, Paint and Public Walls By: Sprya Sharma, Sabina Andron This course aims to provide a multidisciplinary reading of contemporary urban environments through political expressions such as graffiti, street art and other types of wall writing. The course will examine the role of these practices in the context of Indian cities and will contribute to the development of a critical capacity to read contemporary urban cultures. Wall surfaces play an important role in producing urban cultures around the world. Villages and small towns usually have textual messages on walls, advertising political parties, government policies, and ayurvedic medicine.

In denser urban areas, wall messages are commerce and art-driven, as part of government strategies of urban beautification and development. These surface messages are sites of local identities, where dialogues about belonging, visibility and publicness are carried out in public. They have been researched internationally through urban studies, public space semiotics, visual culture, legal geography and media studies, which we will draw from in our course to explore, record and analyse such examples from various Indian cities. The course will start with an overview of contemporary urban theories and introduce an international history of wall writing, graffiti and street art, to examine how these practices produce conversationsabout publicness and privacy, art and crime, transgression and the law. The course will be taught online through a series of synchronous lectures and seminars, and a range of asynchronous activities.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Jayati Anand Kishor Misra Aishwarya Chauhan Amruta Vungarala Anusha Shetty Archie Sushil Parakh Deshpande Ashwini Uday Hemangi H R Sunya Ikshita Bhargava Jayati Chopra Nikita Khatri Salvi Nishani Shaileshbhai Malani Nidhi Parasbhai

Reshma Esther Thomas Sejal Sanjay Shanbhag Shreshtha Waghray Yashshree Karandikar Apurva Neeraj Pandey Gohil Mayuri Jitendra Chanakya Rajani Ghosh Drishti Sanjoy Suvarna Drashti Nakrani Miloni Modi Shishir Tiwari Ananya Manojkumar Meen Vishal Purohit

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Reincarnating Cities: Tracing Religio-political influences on Indian Architecture & Planning By: Karan Saharya, Vaissnavi Shukl In this seminar, we focused our attention towards the religio-political influences which have consistently shaped the morphology of our Indian cities at the macro scale as well as carved out a substantial discourse within architecture at the micro scale. Through readings and presentations, we delved into the changing architectural articulations of heritage, nationalism and religiosity in contemporary Indian urban space.

Course Structure The course was structured to investigate three types of linkages, through four main case studies, each of which were presented as slide decks through in-depth research.

We started by studying the evolution of ancient cities centered around religious activities by looking at Varanasi, analyzing how people’s lives and domestic spaces are connected to the town center. In the next phase, we took a deep dive into two cities which were predominantly shaped during the colonial / post-colonial era: political processes and religious riots in New Delhi and Ahmedabad have led to large-scale urban segregation, creating “informal” sprawl which is in continuous conflict with the “formal” city grid. Finally, for the most contemporary case study, we focused on Amaravati, which became a laboratory for the state government to experiment with a ‘new’ urban design by renowned international architects, while referencing traditional motifs and practices such as vastu shastra. These case studies were grounded in theoretical readings, curated by the course instructors, from academic journals, newspaper articles and research white-papers.

Credits: 2 Participants

Shah Khushi Dharmesh Urja Kaushik Gandhi Archita Chanderprakash Varyani Adhrita Roy Naved Ahmed Prakruti R Desai Manali Pabitrakumar Bhattacharya

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Ashwath K Priyanka Ramprasad Dhrishya V Tanvi Jagdish Karia Kinger Yakin Ajay Patel Dhaval Mahendrabhai Gandhi Komal Shrinil Gandhi Dishant Bharatbhai Mrinalini Jha Renuka Gopalakrishnan

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Reviving the lake will create opportunity for many recreational spaces since it is surrounded by temples and activities like cattle grazing and laundry etc which will contribute in the overall economy of the village and also benefit the residents.

Re-imagining Public Affairs in (post) Pandemic Cities (in collaboration with Polimi, Italy) By: Sachin Soni, Giulia Setti, Arian Heidari Afshani Bottom Bottom: Student Work

Course Structure The course was structured to investigate three types of linkages, through four main case studies, each of which were presented as slide decks through in-depth research. We started by studying the evolution of ancient cities centered around religious activities by looking at Varanasi, analyzing how people’s lives and domestic spaces are connected to the town center. In the next phase, we took a deep dive into two cities which were predominantly shaped during the colonial / post-colonial era: political processes and religious riots in New Delhi and Ahmedabad have led to large-scale urban segregation, creating “informal” sprawl which is in continuous conflict with the “formal” city grid. Finally, for the most contemporary case study, we focused on Amaravati, which became a laboratory for the state government to experiment with a ‘new’ urban design by renowned international architects, while referencing traditional motifs and practices such as vastu shastra. These case studies were grounded in theoretical readings, curated by the course instructors, from academic journals, newspaper articles and research white-papers.

Partcross multiple architectural scales, using the course structure as a lens to unravel the layers of space through maps, analytical essays, photography, walking tours and drawings.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Abhas Manoj Dudeja Mukul Pradeep Kogje Akshay Mohan Kashikar Sanil Dishika Satish Pallavi Naveen Pahal Priyam Agrawal Ridhima Khanna Sanjana Das Shivani Singh Sneha Gireesh

Undaviya Vishwa Hitesh Neel Patel

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Shifting Landscapes – Armature and Processes Divya Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti Landscapes around us are dynamic. Landscapes witness regular cycles of seasonal changes as well asthe unprecedented sudden natural events. Being a resilient system, landscapes fight back through aseries of self-adjusting mechanisms. These processes are evident across all scales – from a tiny leafto an entire ecosystem. The course looks at this shifting character of landscape to capture theconstant and variables of any system – small or large, through a range of analogue and digital representation. The course introduces students to the relationship between landscape architecture and representation through an overview of its history, techniques, conventions, and current trends. The coursework included digital software such as AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign), as well as physical modelling and hand drawing techniques. Students used different modes of landscape representation as a tool for addressing two primary questions – What is the armature of any landscape system that stays relatively constant?

What processes does it witness over time to adjust to external changes?

The purpose of the course was to work with a range of representation method – both digital andanalogue in very short timed exercises. This varied exploration allowed an individual to develop theirown iterative representational approach that can eventually incorporate both analogue and digitalmethodologies.

Credits: 5 Participants

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Shaurya Anand Baidehi Rej Dhrumin Kaushik Patel Ketki Sandeep Nandanwar Patel Kedar Bhargav

Pavithra S Kalyani Sarjan Dalal Stuti Goyal Parikh Jhanavi Jigishbhai Mabel Annie Biju Aishwarya Mahadevan Parth Prajapati Sampreet Dasgupta Nirbhay Gadhvi Sheth Vraj Paragbhai

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Space Making through Photography By: Subin Selva In today’s world of skillset training and learning we often face dead ends. We acquire skills but the application remains a query. Can we apply the fundamentals of design thinking to explore the possible solutions to questions of these nature? Can we make learning interdisciplinary with results that are real and within our reach? In a world driven by technology, and by a pandemic in 2020, we chose to respond to these queries, over 6 days, cooped up in our homes, equipped with just a phone or camera and making making the best of whatever we had at hand (sometimes through the windows or within compound walls). As a part of the CEPT Summer Winter School, we explored the two art forms of photography and space making. Using the fundamentals of abstract thinking, design principles, looking and observing, the 15 students have created some very interesting spaces as a final product to these queries.

Credits: 3 Participants

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The last stage of the course aimed towards connecting all previous concepts and constructing spaces through photography. The photographs aided in forming a composition that provided the initial form to the space. The final output involved critical thinking and improved the ability to observe. Let’s experience a variety of ingenious spaces!

Akshita anand Parkara Maurya Vijay Detroja Tulsi Hasmukhbhai Avani Gupta Nishtha Brijesh Contractor Sreejith S Anusha Madhvaraj Anushka Mital Chitresh Rustagi Lekhadia Mihir Manish

Sivapriya U Uravi Dilip Dholaria Thakur Vinaya Vijay Devika Unnikrishnan Janhavi Sunilbhai Modh

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The Design-Research Continuum in Contemporary India: Visualizing Modes of Practice By: Kruti Shah, Sebastian Trujillo The objective of this course was to understand different models of practice that utilize design and research in a parallel manner, while figuring outcomes that are not simply reduced to architectural production in the common sense: we were interested in practices that do more than just buildings. In that manner, students evaluated and mapped a series of practices based on accorded parameters that allowed them to set a comparative matrix; one which could be eventually translated into an overall map of contemporary design-research practice in India. However, even though the methodology was set to bring together very disparate forms of doing through a cohesive and coherent set of steps, the results shall not be considered as objective appreciations or absolute categorizations of these practices. More than that, the produced maps should be seen as informed appraisals withdrawn from expeditious dialogues and conversations that took place throughout a twelve-day period, and offer introductory insights into each of the samples. Similarly, the overall mappings should be seen as initial experiments into visualization methods, that employ preliminary tools of analysis to correlate the collected data vis-á-vis further speculations on collective characteristics, tendencies or behavioral standards.

Credits: 5 Participants

Indrakanti Venkata Sai Sasank Isha Rajendra Chouksey Nehal Jain Niveda Ramesh Roshita Sudhir Patil Snehal Atmaram Yamini Manjunath

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Yash Siroliya Anindya raina Dwij Nirav Hirpara Shah Kanxa Herick Siddharth p cyriac Arnav Prakash Aayush Mrunalkumar Doshi

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Theories of Deconstruction, Post-Modernism and Minimalism By: Percy Pithawala, Dhruv Shah The workshop introduces students to various aesthetic and theoretical discourses that have been explored as a response or continuation to the modern movement in Architecture. The workshop runs for 6 days with morning and afternoon sessions exposing students to the theories of deconstruction, postmodernism, structural expressionism and minimalism. Though textual reading material, documentaries and lecture based presentations, students are exposed to many critical practices that have shaped the current global architectural scene. The lectures make key connections with parallel discourses like art, cinema and philosophy, grounding these formal explorations to contextual theories of the time. The workshop also propels interactive sessions before and after the lectures so as to promote the good practice of cross fertilization of ideas between the students as well.

Parallel to the presentations, students are bracketed into groups according to their academic backgrounds to produce a coherent research and allocated a specific building, or a set of ideals, which are quintessential examples of specific periods within architecture. Regular post-lecture discussions are held to offer clarity to the students for the final outcome that has to be produced by the groups. The final submission expected from the individual groups is a relatively detailed report focusing on the central issues their chosen construct surfaces.

The expected analysis varies according to the chosen projects with various parameters given varied importance like structure, services, circulation, context etc.

Credits: 2 Participants

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Arvind Krishnan Kave Shinthu Prabakherran Trivedi Priti Deepakbhai B Geethu Gangadhar Karthik Nakkana Chandan K Ved H Patel Anmol Dwigun Patel Kanishka Wadehra Khushi Rajubhai Panchal

Kushagra Mittal Shroff Ninad Parag Brahmbhatt Yashasvi Yatin Stuti - Garg Prakruti R Desai Priyanshi N/A Garg Vanessva Treesa D’souza

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Urban Installation By: Vishal Pawar, Pranav Meghani Public space is a very political arena of citizen participation.

Gender, Class and Race are important factors of a public space. While, idealistically speaking, the public space should belong to everyone; however, it is controlled by a select group. Many groups are excluded from public places –women being at the forefront of the excluded groups, racial groups, groups of different genders, poor sections of the society. The list is long. Urban Design as a practice, tries to solve these social problems and bring the democratic nature of the public space back.

The course aimed to fuse the concepts of Installation art and Tactical urbanism as an experiment to produce creative hands-on solutions for Indian public spaces.

The input sessions covered basics of problems with planning in India, Urban design principles, Installation Art as a medium of change, the fusion of Installation Art and Urban Design, and then dive into a methodology that can be used by anybody while undertaking an Urban Installation project. The students were able to identify a site and create drawings of the site morphology, activity mapping, identification of stake holders, site specific heritage issues. In the situation of the pandemic, the students played the role of stakeholders and tried to create an imaginary scenario of public participation. The final output was in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, with the proposal explained through Drawings, 3D renders, and models. Student learnt about Urban Design issues, Working in the public realm and creating an Urban Installation on limited budget.

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Rashmil Rajagopalan Sudipto Barua Aashna Ritesh Shah Khyati Mehta Manali Manesh Patel Nishi Gandha Rai Nitinkumar Kademani Tejan Milind Nalavade Kiyada Archan Narendra Harsh Panchal

Maitri Thorat Gupte Prajit Abhijit Abhishek Sharma Chandera Jignesh Parbat Makwana Jignesh Manish Suthar Poriya Maulik Jagdish Bhai Priyank Parmar Akshayraj Sinh Solanki Ravi Shantilal Rangholiya

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Ways of Seeing Structure By: Vinod Shah, Mangesh Belsare ‘Ways of seeing structure’ was about to develop an ability to decipher structure in buildings. This is an essential step to move towards applying the same in the process of design. Students were introduced to basics of structural actions, materials, and systems. Broad categorization of system was introduced to understand play of forces, parameters of construction, ways of making and spatial qualities in different systems. Students were asked to select the case studies of Frame and Surface system. The criteria for the selection of the cases were set in such a way that major materials and forms are covered. Based on the theoretical understanding developed, students were asked to decipher the system in the selected buildings. Individual buildings were taken for thorough discussion on structural system, use of materials and appropriateness of construction for the chosen form.

Important details and relevance of the same with respect to given condition and its impact on local and global form was evident in selected case studies and the same was the revelation for the students. Quantitative methods of analysis using computer programs were used to corroborate the understanding developed using qualitative methods. After thorough study of selected buildings, students were asked to document the same in such a way that the same can be communicated in a visual manner using appropriate tools and presentation techniques. Presentation and discussion based on study of all the cases helped the students to relate the abstract principles of structure, properties of material and form in development of ‘Tectonics’.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Satere Siddhesh Ashish Patel Dhruv Harshadkumar Jani Kushal Zankarbhai Prachi Dinesh Mittal Riya Bansal Bansal Srishti Anupam Sharma Vineet Bajrang Jariwala Viren Jayeshbhai Harshil Daxesh Amin Kvhambhata Manan Bhaskarbhai

Richa Bihari G Pranathi Jain Arihant Sanjay Tejaswini Jadav Divyankshi Deepak Beena Ratadia Bhavya Hasmukh

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Planning

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Understanding Scientific Research – Its relevance for Architecture, Planning and Design By: Mukesh Patel We have all done some science at school but have you considered how the scientific method was developed?

Why it is so reliable and widely applied for all types of research and surveys? Its relevance for Architecture, Planning or Design? This course aims to address such questions. Science is an integral part of modern society.

Look around you. What do you see? Perhaps, a phone screen, a teacup, pens, or the sun shining through the window. Science, or more precisely empirical research, in the reason for our knowledge and understanding of more or less everything that we know about in the universe: the connection between the tiniest subatomic particles to the immense powerful black holes, or how the COVID-19 infects us and why it can fatal for some but not others, and how your mind functions while you are reading and understanding these words. But more to the point science is fundamentally a process by which we learn about all these things. It helps satisfy the natural curiosity with which we are all born: how do airplanes stay airborne, what would be an effective vaccination against COVID-19, how do we see colours? And in the process it leads to huge technological advances that include our ability to conduct this course without being in the same classroom on the CEPT campus! This course will help students to understand how and why science is different from other ways of doing research and survey.

To understand and evaluate the scientific process and how it allows us to build human knowledge: knowledge that is reliable and useful and without which the modern world would not be modern at all.

Credits: 2 Participants

Alexandre Zeller Arushi Gopal Juan Carlos Tusso Gomez

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Urban Water Systems – Planning, People and Governance By: Mona Iyer, Gargi Mishra

The week-long virtual summer school course on “Urban Water Systems: Planning, People and Governance”, aimed at building an understanding of the nexus between urban water systems, spatial planning, people/community participation and governance. Students with diverse academic training (architecture, engineering, planning, management, and design) actively participated in the course. The input lectures were a mix of talks by various eminent national and international guest speakers and internal sessions by the course faculties. The subsequent discussions after each input session contributed towards building a stronger understanding of the integration between various aspects of urban water systems. Each student reviewed and documented two national and two international case studies signifying good practices under either of the three themes - a. spatial planning for water systems; b. citizens/community participation in water management; c. urban water governance. The resultant output was in the form of a review-based compendium of over 70 case-studies. In the end, students presented their learnings relevant for initiating spatial planning, people’s participation, and government-led interventions for sustainable urban water systems. Some of the key learnings derived from the synthesis of case-studies highlighted the significance of interlinkages between various water systems in urban and regional contexts; integrated collaborative approaches for ensuring good governance or spatial planning practices and; nuances between government and governance within its broader conceptual framework.

Credits: 3 Participants

Patel Krishna Rajesh Patel Milan Rajeshkumar Nikhil Singh Yaduvanshi Patel Palak Sureshkumar Sabhya Raj Shreesha Arondekar Sreya Susan Vaidyan Patel Harnish Pankajkumar Ravi Shantilal Rangholiya

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Agni Chowdhury Amrendra Bharati Anirudh Vikani Ankitkumar Jentilal Anuj Singh Anurag Vijay Naidu Vakil Gaurav Shirish Bhatt Khushbu Narendrabhai Pathak Kavan Kartik

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WASH in Emergencies By: Saswat Bandyopadhyay, Siddh Doshi This 11-day long virtual summer school on “WASH in Emergencies”, began on the 15th of June 2020. This course aimed at building an understanding of the importance and need for emergency preparedness planning with an emphasis on WASH. The course had been adapted from a course at IHE, Delft that is developed in cooperation with major humanitarian organizations. 21 Participants with diverse training (architecture, engineering, urban planning, management and design) became a part of the course. A total of 6 faculties from 2 national institutes (JNAFAU, Hyderabad and AIILSG, Mumbai) also attended this course as ToT with the larger objective of creating a knowledge consortium and capacity building in the WASH sector. The course focused on interdisciplinary actions to combat Global Emergencies and principles that govern it. The participants developed an understanding of how to work within the framework and coordination of international aid and assistance during such emergencies. With the help of input lectures and webinars from eminent experts, the course also sensitized the participants towards the identification of the stages of aids, stakeholders in the international relief system and their perspective mandates during emergencies. At the end of the course, the participants were guided to review/document/plan or design based on serval themes a response plan for WASH in Emergencies. Themes like Post-CoVID, Planning and Designing of WASH in the Urban public transport system, WASH in Slums during Emergencies or Smart WASH interventions during emergencies were taken up by students as their individual projects.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Agni Chowdhury Akanksha Singh Anirudh Anuj Singh Anurag Vijay Naidu Mahamaya Subhadayini Manjaree Dutta Mehreen Khan Patel Palak Sureshkumar Patel Hetul Bharatbhai

Prateek Kaur Shreesha Arondekar Mehta Siddhi Rajendra Harsh Panchal Nandni Tarangkumar Shah Pavan Suthar Ravi Shantilal Rangholiya Jaykumar Suthar Thakore Akshat Yaumin Ghusale Onkar Sharad Rishabh Garg

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Coastal Development, Vulnerability and Resilience: Sri Lanka and India By: Madhu Bharti, Neeru Bansal The objective was to understand the vulnerabilities faced in the area of Varkala, due to the climate change, with the reference of urban development, economy, tourism and ecosystems. In the following study we have tried to identify vulnerabilities and suggest appropriate resilient and adaption measures.

Credits: 2 Participants

C.R.Gautham Chandar Solanki Keval Jayantilal Singh Kiran Arjun Krittika Roy Manoj S Patel Vikram Rahabha Tanay Trivedi Siddharth S Sangami P N

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Amrutha Balan Paulami De Pavithra Nelson Riddhi Patel Satyajeet Chavan Sreedevi N. Kurur Soni Darshil Patel Jaimin Maheshbhai Akshat Chadha

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Decoding Iran: Principles of Contemporary Architecture/Urbanism through Successful Practices By: Mehrnaz Amiraslani, Reza Ghafouri Using context of Iranian contemporary practices, we investigated design and development processes adopted by a new generation of designers who redefine roles of architects and urban designers, challenging and rethinking conventions and traditions of design.

An interactive exploration of Iran, a country with rich historical architecture and urbanism, formed background to explore real challenges of contemporary practices in shaping todays’ cities. Through live, virtual tours this course offered a lifelike experience of prominent Iranian contemporary, award-winning architecture and urban projects, complemented by designers’ lectures on their practice and students’ close interactions with them.

These practices were selected to present variety of design attitudes and methods. Critical debates guided students to analyze the presented methods and attitudes towards project design and development, challenges faced, and innovative measures taken. Through critical debates and graphical reflections, we aimed at enabling students to analyze design processes with a critical eye and extract methods to adopt in their own design processes in future. Diagramming was explored to distill presented processes to their essence, and present them in an abstract manner. This form of representation can be adopted by students in their studios or later in practice.

Close interactions with selected architecture and urban design practices exposed students to a variety of design attitudes and development methods.

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Akshan Bhide Mehta Archi Ajay Sejal Irene Anna Shaji Raval Miten Tusharbhai Pallavi Bose Patil Pratiksha Sunil Pratit Kumar Das Rashi Soni Rithika Ravishankar Rajalakshmi

Rituparna Sengupta Sawant Rutuja Hemant Kshama Pancholi Saatvika Satyanarayan B Sanjana Monappa Shradha Gupta Shrimathi P Shubham Manish Betharia Soumya Samarpita Swain Vidushi Singh Manish Suthar Shreya Anne Joseph

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Understanding Scientific Research – Its relevance for Architecture, Planning and Design By: Mukesh Patel This short and intensive course aimed to deepen students’ understanding of the nature and appropriateness of the empirical approach (ie, scientific process) for building knowledge that is reliable and useful.

This aim was accomplished by a mix of lectures, review of multimedia resources, in-class student-let discussions and presentations: all of these were centered around five short assignments designed to engage with the key aspects of scientific process. Each assignment outcome represented a systematic learning of the nature of knowledge (ontology and epistemology); nature and evaluation of systems of knowledge (historical perspective); the efficacy of the empirical approach for knowledge building (nature of the scientific process); as well as, the limitations of the scientific process and possible alternatives (eg, constructivism, phenomenology, Gestalt worldview, etc). Despite the challenge of the limited duration of the course, these assignments, mostly carried out as in-class guided learning sessions, enabled students to gain practical skills – formulating research hypothesis and determining appropriate research approach (methodology and data analysis), as well as critical thinking and evaluating skills. By exposing them to several approaches, thoughts and ideas, they were able to built upon and come up with their own perspectives on how they could carry out a successful research in their respective fields. The enriching group discussions and debates broadened not only the knowledge but also their perspectives in terms of the advantages and limitation so process of scientific research.

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Tony Joe Veyccan Sakaria Meshwa Vitthalbhai Siddhant A Karmarkar Shah Smit Shaileshbhai Anukrati Sharma Neethilavanya K Harsh Barua Abishai Choragudi

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MIND MAP ON PREHISTORIC KNOWLEDGE OF FIRE

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For Smart Urban Development – Project Formulation, Prioritization, be ready for Implementation By: Preeti Inamdar, Ashish Deshpande, Supriya Nene Preamble: Last few years have seen India growing and developing at a very fast rate. Urban infrastructure development is the key to growth and the government of India has taken a lot of initiatives in this area. Contribution of young professionals is very important to achieve this growth. This exercise is to create awareness among the senior students and young professionals, regarding the multitude of aspects involved in the smart urban development process and potentially contribute to this important initiative in various capacities and levels.

Aim: The aim of this exercise is to be able to understand the various aspects, issues, elements and processes involved in the smart urban development and to be able to make a short workable project proposal.

Objectives: There are various objectives in the context of the smart urban development, as follow: Understanding the importance of the vision for urban development of a particular precinct.

Role of the stakeholders and usefulness of the base data Understanding how to formulate projects and estimation of the budgets Prioritization of projects based on various factors and studies Environmental and Planning regulations and guidelines Compilation of a short project proposal for a smart urban development project Credits: 2 Participants

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Katrawala Faisal Atik Shubhamkar Suhas Mule Bhate Apoorva Avinash Aum Karkar Avani Saurabh Gajjar Dhairya Chopra Patel Dhruv Harshadkumar Rajani Meghal Mukesh Derasari Nandini Hitendra Reshma Mathew Sanghvi Dhvani Dipenbhai

Urja Kaushik Gandhi Akshayraj Sinh Solanki Sharma Vineet Bajrang Jariwala Viren Jayeshbhai Rohila Shivang Devendrasinh Chitrakshi Pramod Shirke Rupali Shrivastava Amin Nishit Gandhi Dishant Bharatbhai Inamdar Purva Sarang Kadia Maitri Jagdishbhai Mrinalini Jha Poriya Maulik Jagdish Bhai Renuka Gopalakrishnan

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Branding 101 By: Ruchi Mehta Branding 101 is a compact program to familiarize designers with brand strategy making. Through a series of presentations, basic concepts of branding are introduced and then the participants engage in an step-by-step strategy making exercise. This begins by development of an innovative idea for product or service. It is followed by market research to understand the existing competition and preferences, priorities and pain points of the target audiences. Based on this research, they modify their product and/or service range to better suit the segments of target audience. These modifications are carried out such that they enable capturing a distinctive brand positioning. Attention to brand strategy making is then diverted to crafting of the core message based on aspired brand positioning and by identifying the appropriate promotional touchpoints. Communicating a coherent and curated message consistently across its touchpoints is the core of brand strategy making and design of the relevant promotional touchpoint plays an important role here. So the participants in this short program explore the strategy making process and showcase it through the design idea for one key promotional collateral.

This is driven by the aspired brand image and brand associations they intent to imprint in the minds of their target audiences.

In the summer 2020 session, strategy making was carried out for an interesting mix of ideas like an app to manage house plants while owner is travelling, an app to enable farming in empty urban plots, an app to customize hotel experience and other products like time-saving grocery kits, smart healthcare furniture, the exotic dragon fruit, beautiful craft based home decor and jewelry products as well as for consultancy services related to cultural interpretation centers.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Aishwarya Goel Alind Kumar Anees Muhammed P A Arati Ghusabhai Buha Pokar Dhwani Sureshbhai

Divya Mishra Shelat Nirmit Amit Sanjana Sarkar Siddharth Ambaliya Joshi Tejaswini Sudhir

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Origami and the Zen Experience By: Anand Viswanathan When we started, honestly I had no idea how this was going to go, mostly because Origami is a very visual art and both parties have to look at each other to understand whether it is going right or not. Also I usually draw all the steps on the blackboard but here there was no place to draw. But thanks to the amazing outcome of this course I am now confident that something like this can be done online. I’ve put together a presentation showing the awesome works done by all the students. I think we really had a lot of ‘learning with fun’ all these 10 days, thanks to all the enthusiasm and positive energy of all the 19 students. I am sure by the end of the workshop they would have certainly improved their capacities such as calmness, clarity and concentration thereby bringing their mental processes under better voluntary control – just because of folding paper (and no cutting or gluing).

That in itself is awe inspiring and the reason that attracts people of every age including my students. And also you end up making beautiful, attractive and sturdy models. So origami is not just about folding paper. All the students’ works were just amazing. I had not expected them to be doing so much and documenting it so brilliantly, it was more work than the on-campus workshop, and what we usually do as a group-work (the Carbon Structures and all), they all did individually. And they even make lamps out of it, something we usually don’t do on campus. We had a few internet problems and a lot of power-cuts, and it was a little slow at times but overall I think it went well.

But it’s amazing to look at where all the students were connected from.

Credits: 3 Participants

Nandhini V Parita Jani Patel Sankalpa S Raul Raj S Rimita Bhowal Suryawanshi Sharvari Sanjay Shubham Vinod Raut Trusha Harishbhai Shah Aditi Bajpai

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Abhishek Joshi Alhad Shridhar Anisha Samal Anwesha Bhattacharya Ashwatha Chandran Ayushi Sharma Janvi Pravinbhai Patel Kirti Jalan Mahamaya Subhadayini Naitik Mahendra Panchal

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Art For Design Sake By: Jagrut Raval Choose a book of fiction or a short story that is of interest to you that has never been made into a film. Choose a character in the book to follow, and make a detailed map or list of places that the character inhabits. Draw your vision of each setting, almost like a series of film stills.

Try to concentrate not on illustrating the physical details described in the book but more on creating images that capture a particular scene’s tone or effect. Put together the illustrations and give a unique new title to the work.

Tell the stories through memories embedded in artefacts, objects, things. Based on Artist Teresita Fernández’s open studio assignment, SFMOMA Reference: Look at the works of Artist Walid Raad, especially the project Atlas Group, Damien Hirst treasures from the wreck of the unbelievable,

Credits: 3 Participants

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Noone Anish Nikunj Devjibhai Vaza Abhas Manoj Dudeja Birlangi Pramod Kumar Ankitha Anna Thekkiniyath Ann Rachel Saji Arjun T B C. R.gautham Chandar Shah Kushal Chandrakant Nimmi Elizabeth Thomas

Prashasti Gupta K Shanthi Shagun Gupta Prachi Patodia Komal Nayak Tanay Trivedi Parkara Maurya Vijay Daksh Tak Nanditha Meria Francis

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Creating Impactful Short Films By: Tanmay Shah The course had 19 participants. How to covert ideas into scripts, scripts into screenplays, screenplays to shooting scripts, how to shoot a film , how to record sound in films and how to edit a film was taught in the course. All three sections namely pre-production, production and post production of film-making were covered in the course. In 14-days, working together, 12 complete short films were made and 3 more films went till film production.

All students individually presented 5 major ideas from which one idea about the film, was selected and developed into a story. The story was then written and converted into the screenplay. Everyone adhered to the format of writing the screenplay and submitted the final screenplay for shooting the film. Students were remotely placed at more than 13 different cities. Adhering to government covid rules and regulations in each cities, 12 films were completed at the end of the course in the speculated time. All students also submitted posters of their films, of the films made as well as of the films in the process of making, at the end of the course. Each film ranged from around 4 minutes to 13 minutes in duration.

The topics of films ranged from: preventing online body shaming, LGBT+ rights, overcoming societal superstition, and love beyond life to situational mystery and human tragedies.

Credits: 5 Participants

William George Kennedy Desai Raj Tejas Chaudhary Rahulkumar Babubhai Shubhi Banethia Prajapati Prince Dinesh Tanya Sarkar Yogita Srinjoy Das Rachit Devashryee

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Suthar Dhavlesh Girishkumar Agrima Agarwal Kelawala Parth Rajendrabhai Deeksha Somaiya Shah Jaladhi Vinod Kanchi Choudhary Shachi Vijay More Sneha Kashayp Longjam Bhimeshwor Singh Nupoor Sunil Dave

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Forms of Calligraphy Through Design Principles By: Hiral Bhagat Before human being speaks even words, signs and symbols on the walls of caves were the first evidences of communication. Later those signs evolve into letterforms in different languages and communication started also happening through written words hence language evolved. In beginning handwritten letterforms and the way written language became so crucial for our ideas to communicate. Every script has very unique way of writing it therefore human had started searching beauty even in the letterforms. That may be a reason for origin of calligraphy as truly descried as ‘art of beautiful writing’.

Calligraphy helps us to communicate ideas with freedom of expression. This course focuses on Latin script calligraphy. In the process of study student will learn essential calligraphy strokes and letterforms, which will be combined later with design principles like symmetry, rhythm, repetition, balance, emphasis etc. to create formal compositions. The combination, arrangement, size and weight of the letterforms, the balance between black and white, the speed of writing and the writing instruments are some of the factors which will influence form of calligraphy.

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Janga Vani Padmavathi Raj Gaurav Ayushi Shah Fiona Evangeline S Geeta Dixit Isha Goel Sakshi Kishore Rashinkar Sinha Juhi Shishir Tiwari Vidhi Piyushkumar Shah

Modasiya Mo Zeeyan Salauddin Marshetti Sukruti Girish Srivastava Mitali Dipak

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Integrating Natural Patterns and Compuational Method to Develop Parametric Furniture By: Jinal Shah Furniture, like architecture, defines the way we interact and inhabit various spaces around us. The different methods and processes used to develop the furniture define its overall form and its relation to the existing context. It is thus, important to constantly research and innovate different systems, methods, and tools which integrate the various functional, structural, and aesthetic aspects of the furniture. Nature, over millions of years, has managed to develop systems that are highly efficient and sustainable. These natural patterns and processes, like Voronoi, fractals, Venation, minimal path, etc. follow simple rules which enable an organism to survive, sustain, self-support and co-exist. Computational methods and tools allow us to explore, analyze and understand these simple rules and develop multiple, complex geometries and forms, which when applied within the domain of interior architecture, help us design furniture which is innovative, sustainable, self-supporting, and aesthetically appealing. This course intends to understand, analyze, explore, and integrate the simple rules of generation for various patterns like Voronoi, Fractals, Venation, etc, existing in nature with computational tools like the grasshopper, parakeet, anemone to develop parametric furniture.

Understanding the Parameters and form Development Credits: 3 Participants

Thiyageshwar Payapalle Teja Siva Srinivas Ananya Bhardwaj Patel Ayushi Manishbhai Jayashre B G

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Jinal Bhavesh Patel Kinshuk Adeshra Richa Deshdipak Mishra Saylee Jain Sneha Ramachandran Rameez Lal M Sarvatha Shukla Darga Sikindar Ali Palak Agrawal Roshma R

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Lost in Translation By: Priya Narayanan, Ananya Parikh Learning graph

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Lost in Translation aimed to get students to dig deep and figure out why the adage -there’s many a slip between the cup and the lip- holds good when trying to express emotions. Thought is the initiator or instigator of feelings, expression is the unburdening, the culmination. In this course, students were guided through a three-stage process of Think-Feel-Express with equal emphasis on each stage. They were introduced to the book – Ways of Seeing by John Berger following which they watched the first episode of the BBC series based on the book. Students also watched the movie The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski. Each viewing was followed by guided group discussions where students were encouraged to engage in critical thinking and document their feelings through words and sketches. For the main exercise, students identified one issue or emotion they were grappling with, expanded its relevance to the larger society through discussions and created a narrative to help express themselves. They then carried out systematic research to make broad-spectrum connections and arrive at symbols to carry their narrative forward through 4-8 black and white paintings/collages/photomontages. The workshop culminated with each student presenting his/her final set of paintings to the group to gauge whether or not their thoughts were lost in translation.

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Surabhi Gupta Zalak Patel Shah Hardi Chetanbhai Pooja Chandra Naveli Jain Pinara Anushka K Neel patel Shobha Alias Pallavi Mahesh Soumya Haritay

Moharir Akshata Anil Chhavi Bhatnagar Deshmukh GAyatri Harish Harshit Parashar Hetul Vijay Parmar Neha Balasaheb Shirkande Jariwala Parth Jitendra Ruchika Sharma Srishti Gupta

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The Art of Craft:Deciphering the Design Principles in Indian Folk Art By: Nisha Vikram, Udit Parekh The course began with an explanation of various narrative craft practices across the country which was followed with examples of how such traditional practices have been used in contemporary frameworks. There was a small session on efficiently using digital media in the translation process. The crux of the course was studying in detail about the three specified crafts, Kalamkari, Pattachitra and Scroll Pattachitra. Each craft was studied with a presentation on the characteristics by the faculty members followed by an intensive assignment. A reallife scenario was deliberately included in the assignment to enable students to understand the process of studying the craft and using it in a contemporary setting. The students were guided at each step of the assignment.

Each session ended with feedback and a recap of our learnings. The final assignment was creating a deck of cards using their own theme but rendered in the style of one of the three crafts studied. Each student came up with their own idea and they were guided on the entire process. The outcome has been successful and is a clear indicator to the success of this course.

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Shravya M Shah Yug Niraj Shah Dhwani Mehul Pandit Pratiti Devanshu solanki viraj bharatbhai

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Chinmayee Suar Satya Prakash Panda Aishwarya Murari Garvi Kotak Premkumar S Bora Rukeia Aminur Rahena Jhanvi kamlesh oza Dudhiya jui milan Pavni Porwal Sakina Aliasgar Tajani

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The Origami Mantra By: Anand Viswanathan Origami is a very visual art and both parties have to look at each otherto understand whether it is going right or not. Also I usually draw all thesteps on the blackboard but here there was no place to draw. Butthanks to the amazing outcome of this course as well as the previous one, I am now confident that something like this can be done online.I think we really had a lot of ‘learning with fun’ all these 10 days,thanks to all the enthusiasm and positive energy of all the 20 students. I am sure by the end of the workshop they would have certainly improved their capacities such as calmness, clarity and concentration thereby bringing their mental processes under better voluntary control – just because of folding paper (and no cutting or gluing). That in itself is awe inspiring and the reason that attracts people of every age including my students. And also you end up making beautiful, attractive and sturdy models. So origami is not just about folding paper. All the students’ works were just amazing. I had not expected them to be doing so much and documenting it so brilliantly, it was more work than the on-campus workshop, and what we usually do as a group-work (the Carbon Structures and all), they all did individually. And they even make lamps out of it, something we usually don’t do on campus. We had a few internet problems and a lot of power-cuts, and it was a little slow at times but overall I think it went well. But it’s amazing to look at where all the students were connected from.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Gatkhane Aniket Hiralal Lakshmi R Maria Jeenu Madgundi Nameeta Shankar Priyanka Das Gupta Sarabjeet Kaur Sodhi Desai Vihar Ketanbhai Dhande Vishakha Jayeshbhai Sahane Pratiksha Shivaji Anita Hari Patel

Amin Nishit Gajera Manthan Laljibjai Patel Dhaval Dineshbhai Raj Rajveeba Yogendrasinh Aanchal Sanjay Arora Parikh Bhavya Snehal Jasoliya Brinda Dilipbhai Khyati Upendragiri Goswami Adarsh Roshni Ajitbhai Chhatrola Vivek Baldevbhai

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Claims and Disputes in Construction Projects By: Reshma Shah

Mahatma Mandir Convention Center- Phase 2B (Claim management)

Gandhinagar Project + railway station project (dispute resolution)

Construction projects are increasingly complex, resulting in complex contract documents, complex construction can likewise result in complex claims and disputes. This summer school course provides an introduction to the claim management and dispute resolution techniques that are frequently encountered in the construction industry. Due to subsequently increasing number of claims nowadays, the implementation of the effective claim & dispute management is needed. Dispute resolution lends itself to third-party intervention escalating into arbitration and even litigation. The course enabled case studybased learning which helped to understand various types of claims and disputes resolution methods which can be implemented to resolve them, with aiming at the recent forthcoming legislation. It included- Introduction to construction contracts and its contents, type of contracts, dispute resolution methods, types of claims in C. I, occurrence of claims, claim management process – Identification / Notification / Working on claims / Impact / Pricing / Decisions making process / Negotiation was discussed. Causes of disputes and methods of dispute resolution were discussed in detailed. Arbitration process was explained through expert session. The course covered all probable aspects of claims and disputes that arise in construction project with multiple stakeholders.

Inclusion of resolved claims of milestone project and live example of Current disputes in undergoing project as case studies helped to understand the current dispute solving mechanisms and practices in the industry.

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Panchal Ruturaj Sandeepkumar Ahir Keshvi Kalpesh Gandevikar Kathan Yogeshbhai Hetanshi Patwa Arpit Kanv Aryan Kumar Arya Bhimani Kenil Mansukhbhai Joshi Hemali Sanjay Aashir Khan Lohiya Prarit Sanjaykumar

Mrinalini Jha Neha Raj Tank Dwija Shah Sharma Ayushi Ravi Tanay Trivedi Yogita Pavan Suthar Pinara Anushka K Chaudhary Priyanka Rameshwarbhai

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Project Risk Management-Learning’s Through Case Studies By: Jyoti Trivedi, Goutam Dutta This course was designed to deliver three major aspects of gaining knowledge on Conceptual Understanding, Learning’s through case studies of different sector of projects and Digitization of Project Risk Management.

The six day learning endeavor of the course started with conceptual understanding of project management issues, complexities and uncertainties, challenges of Channel Tunnel, and Jindal Steel case study projects on day one. Day 2 highlighted Project Risk Management processes, Qualitative and Quantitative Method exploration through understanding risk identification plan and network techniques of Largesse hydro power project and Bridgecon project case study. Day 3 emphasized on Activity based risk assessment and uncertainty and risk identification techniques through Amadubi tourism project case discussing aspects of decision tree analysis and expected monitory value. Day 4 focused on Qualitative methods of risk identification, risk response plan and control through case study of transportation project, Affordable housing project and TATA steel plant case studies where the key learnings evolve cause-effect and FMEA techniques. Day 5 and 6 intensively covered software learning and indulging of schedule integration of project risk management by using primavera. Digitization of project risk management emphasized of handson exercises of creating Risk register and allocating qualitative and quantitative risk for scheduling time and cost analysis of projects.

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Bina Jayesh Udeshi Pathak Kavan Kartik Priya R Priyanka Agarwal Sachin C Kuzhivelil Shravan Satyen Engineer Chaudhary Ankitkumar Ramjibhai Joint Lamiah Kokel Mohit Narendra Mistry Drashty Alpesh

Parmar Pratik Patel Brijal Mahendrakumar Shukla Ujjawal Dhiren Barot Priva M Jaykumar Suthar

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Research Analysis and Hypothesis Testing By: Jimmy Sethna The course was on Research Analysis and Hypothesis testing. Most students were interested in learning specially because they were on the verge of completing their studies and would be doing research for their thesis.

There were a few students who were not aware of certain terms of statistics, for them I had to take a session separately to make them aware of the terminologies used in the course. The course started with Theories of Sampling and different sampling options; followed by estimation.

Students were highly interested in Hypothesis testing and Chi Square test , since it was directly applicable in their area of study. After each module an assignment was given for them to solve. The final assignment covered all the topics. All the sessions were taken on Google Classroom and were interactive with students asking questions and how to apply the logic of Hypothesis in their study.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Dungrani Charmi Nileshkumar Devendra Kumar Saini Zala Jesal Rajnikant Manna Elizabeth Anil Mishal Dodia Bhanushali Neha Jerambhai Prateek Kaur S Saish Harsh

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STAAD software & its application in Structural Engineering Practice By: Dhara Shah Learning software is not just enough. More prevalent is getting your basic fundamentals right. The course started with basic terminologies of the software. Afterwards, students were given assignments to analyse various types of 2D beams and frames manually along with drawing shear force and bending moment diagrams. The same assignments were also asked to be done using STAAD software. Importance of software comes when a complex 3D structure is to be designed, which cannot be done manually. Students were given G+2 RCC structure to analyse and design along with result verification as a part of the course. Steel trusses, RC beams and frames were also analysed using software. At the end, each student worked on actual G+2, residential project. The course ended up with neat and detail project report submitted by each student including the assignments. Students were impressed by STAAD software user interface, visualisation tools, and analysis and design engines.

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Shukla Fenil Himanshubhai Shah Parshwa Ashishkumar Shah Pooja Rameshbhai Patel Poojan Jitendrakumar Raj Yamgar Rajvir L Chaudhary Aryan Kumar Arya Kansara Jaykishan Ketanbhai Jesalpura Yogi Mayank Jain

Mrinalini Jha Brij Patel Oza Krunal Mukeshbhai Patel Bhaumik J Patel Dhaval Ramkrishna Patel Harnish Pankajkumar Patel Rutu J Ruta N Patel Sharma Ayushi Ravi

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Data Science and Machine Learning for Everyone By: Aditya shah This course was focused on giving students exposure to the emerging technologies like Data Science and Machine Learning. This course had three major components namely, Statistics, Python and Machine Learning. In the Statistics module the students focused on learning fundamental as well as advanced statistical techniques required by a data scientist. With meaningful exercises designed in Python and Excel they were able to get a hands-on experience and connect the theory with practice. Further, one of the objective of this course was to make students analyse and visualize data critically to extract meaningful insights and communicate for effective decision making. In the Python segment apart from statistical concept application they were exposed to data manipulation and data exploration libraries like Numpy and Pandas and data visualization libraries like seaborn and matplotlib. To add an additional dimension to the course, tools like Tableau and Power BI which are industry gold standard for data analysis were also discussed in the class. Finally, in the machine learning component of the course various machine learning algorithms (both regression and classification) along with their mathematical aspects were taught. Using practical datasets, these Machine Learning algorithms were implemented in lectures to demonstrate the implementation part. Further, four teams were formed and two projects (One for regression and One for classification) were given to students and a detailed presentation was delivered by each team along with the code for implementation developed by students to give them a project based learning experience.

Credits: 3 Participants

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This slide depicts the efforts put up by students to use data visualization libraries of Python to look at the data critically as well as to make conclusions about the data.

Abraham Philip Saraswat Aditya Sanjay Amanda Cassiana Santiago Aseem Shaikh Manasi Krishna S Meet Rajesh Shah Nikitha Roy Raunak Gajanan Datir Kuntmal Reema Devendra Sammit Pancholi

Bane Shantanu Rajendra Sudha Shirley Elizabeth Mathew Shreya Bhusnur Sindhuja L R Snigdha P Kanta Snowy Christophel S Vishwas Shah Zeel Samir Titiksha Bhatia Padsala Shaivi Sandip

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Introduction to Digital Twin for Built Environment By: Jyoti Trivedi 2. Digital Twin The digital twin is the physical representation of the physical asset or process. In the context of built environment, it links the traditional building information model (BIM) to the physical asset through sensors. The data collected from the sensors is analysed for the purpose of operation, optimization, and maintenance.

The Digital Twin has majorly three building blocks as shown in the Figure 2 which make it a reality, these are the BIM, VDC and the IDD. All 3 of these are explained further below.

2.1 BIM The digital twin (DT) starts from the beginning of the lifecycle of the project, thus in the early stages of design is represented by the BIM model. For the DT to be effective the BIM model in addition to being a 3d model shall capture the parametric information of every component that is utilized in the model. This is the first stage when the digital twin becomes data rich. The addition of the parametric information of the components help in the simulation analysis and further quantity take-off from the model.

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Akshay Garg Bhandari Dharmin Narendra Alkaben Dwarik Hasit Trivedi Hancy Mathew Julia Caroline J Lashmipriya.s Vaghamshi Mayank Jay Ajaybhai PatelThakkar Het

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Mitesh Shah Kishan Mehulbhai Mili Jain Uma P Rane Aditya Satish Vinda Arghya Mandal Charu Kumari

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Location Intelligent By: Darshana Rawal, Salvatore Amaduzzi Objective of the study The hazards and disaster are not area specific and their vulnerability is high in urban area where the concentration of high-risk population. Floods are major hazard occurs frequently across every part of the world, which causes damage to environmental, social, economic and human lives. Floods in urban areas are flashy where runoff is manifolds over what would have accrued on natural terrains causing wide spread destruction to urban properties. The floods in the city occur mainly due manmade activities pertaining to blockage of natural drainage, high rainfall intensity and haphazard construction of roads, building and storm water drainage network.

Credits: 5 Participants

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Disha Patel Daraji Niketkumar Pravinbhai Chaudhary Ankitkumar Ramjibhai Chandera Jignesh Parbat Chaudhary Kishan Pachanbhai Jesalpura Yogi Desai Taral Rajesh Kokel Mohit Narendra Lohiya Prarit Sanjaykumar Jain Isha Kennith Dhruv Maheshbhai Modh Kalra Mehar Inderpalsingh Patel Brijal Mahendrakumar

Modh Shubham Kamleshkumar Patel Pratikkumar Jayantilal Patel Harshil Shailesh Patel Preet Patolia Bansari Shukla Ujjawal Dhiren Tank Rajan Haribhai Bhumika Rajendra Raj Jay Patel Abhishek Vora Jhanvi Patel Pinakin

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Writing for Impact By: Yateendra Joshi Before the course began, each participant was contacted individually by email to ascertain her or his objectives in attending the course and to find out some background information about each. Each topic was covered in the form of a presentation (with PowerPoint files) and brief exercises designed to provide opportunities for practice and to test the participants’ understanding of the topic.

For each topic, several recent and relevant books and websites were recommended. The course showed the participants how they can become better writers if only they put in the required effort—writing is a psychomotor skill similar to swimming, driving a car, or playing a musical instrument, and can be acquired with systematic and regular practice. For each topic, the participants were given the details of a few recent and relevant books and websites from which to obtain more information about the topic, and it is hoped that they would explore the topics in greater detail. The participants were also informed about the minutiae of academic writing and standard conventions followed by academic publishers, which should help them in submitting papers to scholarly journals. Having been exposed to examples of good writing, the participants can now recognize the features that make a piece of writing effective. In the same way, by drawing their attention to good practices in document design and showing how they can be implemented in Microsoft Word, the participants will now be able to avoid the common pitfalls in designing documents (too many fonts, excessively long lines of text, indifferent choice of fonts, and so on).

Credits: 2 Participants

Aayushi Harshadkumar Patel Wadhwa Aastha Sarvesh Manjuli Patel Tirth Kamlesh Desai Jigar Bimal Vasani Arjun M. Pancholi Jugal Niteshbhai Chintan Shah Patel Dishen Bhaveshkumar Jain Heril Mahendra Trivedi Roota Jayeshbhai Payal Sajnani Rashika Kapil Aayush Agrawal Dave Madhav Manojkumar Khyati R Chandpa

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Cities, Covid and Technology By: Gayatri Doctor The Course started with an exploration by the students of the Open Data Portal of India. Students engaged in various activities on the My Gov Citizen Engagement Portal like a Logo design event for Atal Bhujal Yojana, Ek Bharat Shreshta Bharat Quiz, a Pledge, information on a Covid-19, etc. Each student selected a city from the 100 smart cities and found out details about it like what were the area based proposals and the PAN city proposals, the current status of implementation of the projects and the Command & Control Centre. Various technologies were identified as being used – CCTV and ANPR cameras for surveillance and identification of infected, drones, Contact Tracing, Apps like Aarogya Setu, Quarantine Movement. Different Dashboards which gave information about the city, data analyzed, World scenario in the context of covid were looked into.

After a brief understanding of Internet of Things (IoT) & Artificial Intelligence (AI), the National AI Portal of India was used to obtain information about AI usage in cities and Covid19 by reading its case studies, research reports, articles. A debate on “Economy Vs Health” in the context of Covid-19 lockdown in India, guest sessions by Prof Chetan Vaidya on ““Covid-19 and City Resilience” and Dr Charru Malhotra on “Smart Cities and how they are managing Covid” were interesting. The impact of Covid ( positive and negative ) on other Sectors like Transport, Tourism, Education system, Banking & Digital Payments, E-Commerce, Construction, Healthcare, Restaurant & Food delivery services, Beauty & Wellness. Local/Street Vendors & Domestic help, Film Industry, Stock Market, Internet Services, Air & Water Quality etc were discussed.

Finally, the story of how different countries have leveraged technology to battle COVID 19 was told. Countries considered were China, UK, Israel, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Brazil, USA, Germany, Russia.

Credits: 2 Participants

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Natalie Stundova Paridhi Singhvi Kanika Sharma Akanksha Singh Eshani Khandpur

Navnit Sourirajan Nilraj Dhirendrasinh Chhasatiya Shuchita Kothari Pratik Bagul Harsh Panchal

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Financial Markets By: Rajnikant Trivedi The course began with providing understanding of the basic terms of financial world. Students tried to get a clear understanding about the terminology of the financial markets. Various types of Financial Markets were studied and those which were more relevant to Indian Financial Scenario were learnt at a greater depth. Various Financial Instruments such as Stocks, Bonds, Deposits, Forward Contracts, Futures Contracts, Options and Swaps were studied with respect to their applicability, pricing, effectiveness, advantages and disadvantages.

The impact of Covid-19 on Equity, Currency and Commodities Markets was also studied to understand the concept of Volatility, Stability and Return Expectations from a particular market scenario. The Impact of change in Economic Factors such as GDP, Inflation, Currency Movement, etc and the corresponding effect on various Financial Markets such as Equity and Debt Market was observed and discussed meticulously. As a concurrent exercise and to give a firsthand experience in Trading of Stocks, the students were asked to create their own Equity Portfolio with virtual funds and they kept tracking the price movement of the stocks selected by them, giving them an understanding of the volatility of the Markets.

The participants studied the impact of savings and investing into different sectors and thereby concluded that savings and investing in Mutual Funds through SIPs is the best possible instrument of financial markets for students and professionals. The students concluded their learning with a thorough understanding of the concepts of Financial Discipline and the benefits of being a Long Term Investor rather than being a petty trader.

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Makdani Aarohi Manoj Shrinath Ganesh Deshpande Kolambe Alap Shankar Sushma Sohan Banga Kulkarni Amruta Girish Sreya Prasad Sharma Anjali Brahmanand MulekarSushmita SudarshanSurekha Prajapati Jay Deepakbhai Vankadari Venkata Ratna Kishore Dave Kedar Rashmikumar Manisha Tiwari Shah Kirtan Samirbhai Dhruv Maheshbhai Modh Parul Sharma Alay Naik Porus Patwari Jain Shah Kahan U Hivarkar Rohit Kishor Tank Rajan Haribhai

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Impact of Change in Built Environment By: Nimitt Karia It was indeed an interesting experience for the tutor and the students to explore ‘Impact of Change’ as a subject matter, construing to first-hand experience with the new format for online learning in this summer school course.

The students were introduced to the framework, the methods and tools through write ups, drawings, photos, infographics, visual sketch notes (VSN), to analyse and communicate the ‘impact’ of change in personal life, in their profession and professional work, the social impact this changes can have in long run as well as cultural or political impact in medium to long run. The variety of topics within the built environment discussing contemporary futurist thinking were explored, specifically about technological advancements, smart cities vs. responsive cities, infrastructure works, procurement for new type of projects, soft skills requirements of future, policy and regulations, etc. With the premise of Project management and learning of project lifecycle stages, the students were encouraged to select some of these inevitable changes - of technology, of materials, of new ways of working or policy interventions - and prepare project execution plan for actual projects.

These examples gave a lot of insights and experience in controlled environment preparing them for the real future challenges. There was a lot of online research, classroom study of data and information gathered by the tutor as well as students, mini assignments, debates and discussions amounting to peer review and feedback, as well as final presentations in the form of posters and online presentation by the students.

Credits: 3 Participants

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Joint Lamiah Mistry Drashty Alpesh Patel Brijal Mahendrakumar Rana Shrey Siddharth Shukla Ujjawal Dhiren

Ameesh Pithva Nikunj Mukeshbhai Bhatti Prathvi Ghanshyambhai Naitik Trivedi Chaudhary Ankitkumar Ramjibhai

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21st Century Professional Skills By: Pragati Goyal, Siddhant Garg Professional Skills or People Skills are non-technical skills which develop the attitude and personality of an individual. These skills not only help the students to succeed in the college classroom but lets them thrive in the workplace after they graduate. Preparation for success in the world of work is one of the most important goals of a college education, and hence this course was designed keeping in mind the same.

Being an architect, engineer, planner and manager, one has to wear various hats and work with and for different people, meet the deadlines, get their ideas across, deal effectively with stress, have the ability to lead people, present themselves well and do much more than just doing the technical work.

Imparting professional skills would prepare them for all of the above and mould them into a confident individual.

It would enable them to face the challenges of personal as well as student life and lead them to learn, live and perform better.

Students will develop verbal and non-verbal communication skills.

Students will inculcate right professional etiquette and appearance.

Students will become more confident in facing the interviews.

Students will be able to evaluate self’s personality type.

Students will prepare a poster to demonstrate their understanding.

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Sakshi Sharma R Shweta Sujit Vishal G. Shreshtha Waghray Yanshu Agarwal Sri Sailesh A Lavanya K Sneha B John Katya Garg Smriti M Vedantam Vaasanth Kotak Sanjana Sanjiv Rajasuba Shalini Niravbhai Vishakha Umate

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Shah Jay Bhadresh Kothari Karan Dineshbhai Raval Maharshi Nimesh Chawathe Tejal Tushar Vishakha Shah Daksh Amitbhai Insha Sharma Mehaa Pershad Mohit Jain Nikita Sanjay Patil Jhanvi Suresh Chauha Dange Renuka Kundlikrao

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Business Management Essentials - Fundamental Clarity to Build By: Avik Munshi As the course was meant to give an overall and essential level of understanding of business, the outcome consisted of student work describing application of their learning in form of strategy to undertake a business of their choice (in groups). The students developed fundamental clarity of business landscape and how any business fits in to the market eco-system. Along with this they understood the fundamentals required to start and sustain any business.

Moreover, they understood different methods and means to grow any business along with the relevance as well as characteristics of each. Further, students learned the details and practicalities regarding the core functional areas such as finance, operations, organisation, sales and marketing. Starting with finance, hands on practice to develop and understand the basics of financial statements and managing money in business. Followed by developing operations and supporting organisation necessary to delivery their product or service in the most efficient manner. Finally they understood the concept as well as practical methods of marketing along with relevance to the context of different products or services.

This was followed by understanding the concept of sales along with its processes and the details of the necessary skills and techniques required to sell a product or service.

Moreover, the various human aspects - unwritten aspects that affect the success and outcome of any business were also shared in detail at a conceptual level with practical examples and cases.

Credits: 2 Participants

Vadali Swapnika Vaibhav Maurya

Hithasini R Gajjar Abhishek Sanjaykumar

Rajpurohit Kuldeepsingh

Kurian Jacob Shubhamkar Suhas Mule Bhavya Agrawal Anushri S Alatagi Apeksha Agarwal Karanbir Singh Gangavaram V S Raghavendra Rishabh Shandily Thakur Srushti Narendra Shah Urvi Paresh

Smart Cities: Role Of Engineers In Urban Transformation By: Bhavin Shah The course typically included teaching presentations and group discussions for six (6) hours every day. The learnings were purely based on the practical examples of modern practices used in developed nations, case studies of Indian cities, interactive sessions, professional videos and reading materials from field experts.

There were a total of three group activities undertaken to make the course more interesting and interactive. As part of these group activities, students were asked to prepare A3 size posters and PowerPoint presentations. Towards the end of the course, students were assigned to prepare a major assignment in groups (five students per group) which carried 40 percent weightage.

The course attempted to widen students’ thinking horizon for smart urban development. The course has imparted broad knowledge about engineers’ role in making cities more livable, clear understanding of urban mobility needs and also the advanced practices to meet those needs. The course instilled basic concepts of urbanism and explained how an engineer could contribute to urban transformation.

The overall feedback from students is very positive and encouraging. There was good enthusiasm and willingness in students to gain knowledge about the subject.

Credits: 3 Participants

Dhruv Aggarwal Bhavsar dhruvi jigar Harsh Nikalwala Patil Manish Dilip Shah Megh Bharatbhai Surve Rajas Rajendra Rujuta Nakhwa Swastik Vinay Thacker Preksha Pracheta Acharya Avi Agrawal

Kadia Maitri Jagdishbhai Lashmipriya.s Maheriya Riya Patel Akshat Kamleshkumar Patel Dhruv Kanubhai Patel Urva Pramodkumar Prajapati biren sanjay Shah Rushil Apurva Vora Jainik Tikendrabhai Gohel Aanshi Harshadbhai

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