gold medal award day 2007

the college's annual gold medal for thesis was announced yesterday. while vidya vandana and snehanshu went through the projects i was running around making sure that as many students as i could manage had pinned up. i am yet to understand why so many of them decided not to.

as for the winners- there were five commendations and one winner.

1. punit and his unusual (for krvia) technological and management focused transit camp housing for slum rehab projects
2. krinas gentle community center around the church at gorai.
3. apekshas clear and careful municipal school
4. prernas playful extension to the asiatic library (and to think the poor girl flunked the university jury for the same sheets)
5. nidhis situationist inspired dadar railway station interface

and the winner was

diptis journey into her own history and the land that her family owned off the western express highway in borivili. today the old house and the hill on which it stood is buried in a slum. somewhere fragments of the old house can still be seen hidden. her project wanted to reconcile these fragments of memory with the varied claims on the site. ghosts is what she called them.