so today it finally emerges- from the mouth of a faculty member 'usa' returned in a meeting today on pedagogy and methods.
“india is not about having ideas, it is about consuming them” making an entire nation into a bunch of wide eyed nincompoop consumers wasn’t enough, next we had to train them in the school to become perfect zombies churning out anything that the world market would demand. they needed to be taught the value of ‘labour’ even if it means that we need to be ‘nazi-ish’ about it. maybe we need to give them projects which will not give them leeway to think because anyways in the ‘real’ world the practice works this way.
we were all suitably aghast at the cynical pessimism and complete conviction at promoting a lack of any conviction that this person promoted. violently and shamelessly stating the lack of a ‘tradition’ to fall back on. i lost my temper- badly.
the undercurrent was that we needed to emulate and/or cater to the outside to be able to better ourselves since we obviously have nothing really to contribute. as you can imagine, i lost my temper- badly at that.
the fellowship paper presentations were better. ateyas paper seems like it might be fun. connecting the experience of the body in a spectacle to the politics of space in the city.
and the last of today’s meetings was in town where the great controversy regarding the motivations and methodologies for the ‘tod’ project at andheri were thrashed out almost to our satisfaction.
11 comments:
wow.. a lil insulting not jus as an architecture student but also as an indian for some reason.
you have no idea just how insulting and insulted this person was
paul said in the tod class the other day, reactions like this from such people are because they haven't been able to detach themselves from the teaching philosophies they have come out of... obviously he said it in much nicer words
its a scary thought, there might be scores of such architects tearing down our "real" worlds with their licence to build and self assured lack of imagination.
why are students being exposed to only one kind of practice? i think our field allowed us the tailoring of completely new practices...
didnt it???
can i have access to ateya's work... th connection between th experience of th body in a spectacle seems interesting.... body lang n things which mite be subconscious have always fascinated me..
you can ask her about it tomorrow. she is taking the tod class.
even me :)
im not really surprised.... this attitude is something we've been facing (and trying to resist) from certain faculties... shocking that he said it outright though
names.. names.. names.. so we can direct our venom with some closer aim
your name name name... anonymous.. and i'll tell you when we have that in the open.. :D
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