The Cartographies of the Imagination

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EDUCATION Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff

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-Currently studying Part 1, Year 2 for a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture. Anticipated graduation 2022.

Bexley Grammar School, Kent

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- (2011 to 2019) completed education with 12 GCSEs (A*-> B)

Bexley Grammar School, Kent

- International Baccalaureate diploma awarded with 6.6.5 in higher level subjects: Art, English and Physics - An extended essay regarding the topic of Biomimicry within Art Nouveau style Architecture.

SOFTWARES Advanced: Intermediate Beginner: Others

Photoshop, InDesign, Enscape Sketch up, Illustrator, AutoCad Lightroom, Point-Clouds, Layout, 3DSMAX, REVIT Office 360, Google Workspace

EXPERIENCE Colman Architects, London

- Summer 2016 - Created a proposal for a rural retreat utilising Architectural drawing of the hand, AutoCAD and SketchUP, whilst working alongside qualified Architects and eventually presenting the proposal to them.

Rural Works, Cumbria/ Cardiff

CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE IMAGINATION FESTIVAL OF DRAWING

- A two week project. We set up our studio in a barn in Staveley whilst collating data from the residents to create an exhibition depicting ‘rural acupuncture’: suggestions of ways in which the community could be elevated. After exploring the rural landscape we took our time exhibiting our scaled models, collaborative drawings, photography of space and place and finally, our word maps in both locations.

COMPETITIONS Well Being of Future Generations

- Poster identifying sustainable communities utlising photoshop and illustrator.

Ruskin Park

- Photography competition to encourage socially distanced walks within Parks.

Having just completed year 2 of my part 1 studies at the Welsh School of Architecture, I realise my keen interest in utilising hand drawings and models as a means of comprehending the atmosphere of a space. Holding the belief that the connection between hand and paper is one of the most subtle yet rewarding forms of communication.

Refugee camp playground

An eye opening experience, which guided my interests, was sourced from a community based project situated in Cumbria, the lake district. Through our documentation of the issues residents faced in a village there, I realised that mapping gives us the opportunity to take agency over our space.

Student Association At the Welsh School of Architecture/ Creative events role

The findings of our research fueled my desire to work amongst people, this emerged through my role within our Architecture committee. Furthermore, my magazine work in a start up led by African British creatives (MoreLife Group) and another affiliated with Cardiff University (Quench Magazine).

This has made me appreciate analogue creative work.

- Working collaboratively within the startup magazine team, I planned pages and layout of pages which consisted of photoshoots and interviews of influential newcomers within London.

- Started to research into the psychology of children and the therapeutic effects which a playground has upon uprooted youth. Unfinished but presented in a honeycomb modular structure with textiles to produce a ‘cocoon shelter’.

EXTRA CURRICULAR Quench Magazine/ Illustrator

- Worked on a series of food related illustrations using Adobe Illustrator alongside an article published online.

- As elected head of Creative events, I created, organised and ran gallery trips, sketch crawls, creative drawing Sessions and

collaborated with Cardiff’s Art Society.

- With a collaborative effort, we worked organised guest architectural lectures as well as

More Life Magazine/ Art Editor

CONTACT

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LANGUAGES Advanced: Intermediate: Beginner:

prity.chatterj@gmail.com +44(0)74 4392 5877 prity-chatterjee @Prittchatterjee

English Bengali, Hindi German, French, Japanese

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To the church go-er this sanctuary becomes an insulated, earthy, daylight painted heart.

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The selected pieces of hand crafted work allude to the delicate nature of the project. Our brief consisted of revitalising the existing forgotten Bethel Church in Cardiff. With Churches providing both outreach activities such as counselling and food banks, this public and private threshold gave birth to the hierarchies of circulation. The outer circulation invites the city goers in. The interior semi private circulation, a mediator between the facilities. The narrow steps to the mezzanine seating circulation, the marker of private worship. The seed-like form curates the choreography of the pilgrimage from the city to the outreach and worship centre.

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These are some examples of the group work we conducted during our time in Cumbria.

Various examples of mapping here. Through a mixture of 3D and 2D hand crafted work, we exhibited the narratives of the community. Our ideas were theoretical but through the documentation we

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Having taken inspiration from the Rural Works community intervention, within my site analysis of Bethel Church, I try to document the choreography of the people using the immediate area.

Through this I could curate my own dance which the site users could move to.

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A spiritual journey is something which resonates with me.

Through a series of photographs, I reimagine the process of finding one’s self.

Although crude in depicting the arduous pilgrimage of the self, the three pieces were a great deal of creative fun: creating the set and lighting, then photoshopping.

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(fg 10) Walkway word mapping around Bethel Church

(fig 9) Urban accupuncture map, identifying the issues of the area according to the community (collaborative)

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(fig 8) 1:5000 Contour model with our acupuncture interventions for Stavely (collaborative)

made it more tangible (fig 7) The collective drawing of Staveley and our areas of interest (collaborative)

(fig 15) Acrylic painting of a Hindu temple’s facade in lewisham

The projection of power is prevalent here. A final piece taken from my art project: the festival of voyages.

Initially a photograph taken from the Lewisham Mandir, I used it as a symbolic image of the power of faith which is a caressing, comforting thing and had it contrast with the stark and potent colour palette. Across the background, runs this haunting mist further highlighting the statue facade.

All in all, the piece speaks of the nature of power. It is a changing thing, a personal thing.

Indicative of the role of cultural festivals and the way in which people praise this power of faith.