International Conference on the Built Environment - ICBE 2021
Read the ICBE 2021 Book of Abstracts here
Does our built environment tell stories of the past? Or does it point to everchanging futures? Can everyday practices be markers of identity for communities and places? Are these questions important for developing our knowledge of materials and forms? How does local governance influence the quality of services, amenities, and the functioning of neighbourhoods? Is architectural representation limited to technical drawings? How does gender influence architectural thought and building practices?
A complex mix of actors and institutions together shape the logic of our contemporary built environment. To engage with this logic means a bringing together of disciplines, narratives, and themes for a critical investigation of both theory and practice. While broader theoretical frames may remain same or similar, places with their socio-cultural and economic imperatives produce opportunity for in-depth understanding of existing and emerging concerns about the built. Cross-disciplinary dialogues are important for unpacking practices related to themes such as representation, urban services and building practices, accounts of habitation and adaptive comfort, heritage, and many more.
While research conferences related to the built environment are many, there are very few which provide an exclusive space for undergraduate students to present their ideas. The International Conference on the Built Environment, ICBE 2021, provides a platform for students to engage with research early in their careers.
Why an Undergraduate Student Research Conference ?
The Jindal School of Art and Architecture (JSAA) at O. P. Jindal Global University announced the first ever International Conference on the Built Environment - ICBE 2021 on March 10, 2021. Imagined as an annual event, the ICBE 2021, aims to foster and nurture a research-oriented ecology of critical thinking, and the creation of a peer interaction network, among undergraduate students of the built environment across various disciplines.
This conference provides a platform to undergraduate students, for articulating and presenting research ideas as an academic paper or poster. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of research on questions concerning the built environment, the ICBE 2021 not only invited students of architecture, art or design, but also students from many other disciplines including engineering and the humanities, to come together and exchange their ideas concerning the built environment through the medium of this conference.
The ICBE 2021 received around 75 student research paper submissions from across the world, from a range of disciplines. 32 papers were shortlisted and have been invited for a presentation at the conference, scheduled for September 17 - 19, 2021. The Jindal School of Art and Architecture and the ICBE 2021 conference committee invites you to attend, participate, debate, and contribute, to foster an environment of research among young minds from across the world.
Schedule of the Conference
Day 1
Evening Session
5:00 pm to 5:05 pm
Aditya Singh, JSAA
Introducing the Conference
5:05 pm to 5:50 pm
Inauguration Ceremony
Prof. Thomas Mical, PhD, Dean, JSAA
Welcome Address
Prof. C. Raj Kumar, SJD, Vice-Chancellor, OPJGU
Inaugural Address
Prof. Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik, Registrar, OPJGU
Opening Remarks
Prof. Girish Agrawal, JD, PhD, Vice-Dean of Research, JSAA
Importance of Research at JSAA
Namrata Menon, President, Student Council, JSAA
Welcome Note to all Student Presenters
5:50 pm to 6:00 pm
Break
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Inaugural Keynote Lecture by
Prof. Hilal Ahmed, PhD, Associate Professor, CSDS
“The idea of Monument and the process of Monumentalization”
Followed by QnA
7:30 pm
Prof. Sourav Banerjea
Assistant Dean of Student Experience, JSAA
Vote of Thanks
7:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Dinner Break
8:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Informal 'Meet & Greet' with Presenters
Day 2
Morning Session
10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Aditya Singh, JSAA
Introducing the Proceeds of Day 2
Session 1 - Unfolding Narratives: The Politics of Representation
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
Session 2 - Building as a site that manifests
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Session 3 - Comfortable Spaces; Evolving Types
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
Session 4 - Building and Spatial Practices
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
Evening Session
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Keynote Lecture by
Thomas Crowley, Phd Candidate, Rutgers University
“Reimagining Delhi: A view from its Hills”
Followed by QnA
7:30 pm
Prof. Sourav Banerjea
Assistant Dean of Student Experience, JSAA
Vote of Thanks
Day 3
Morning Session
10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Aditya Singh, JSAA
Introducing the Proceeds of Day 3
Session 5 - Ways we Dwell
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
Session 6 - City Networks and Ecosystems
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Session 7 - Politics of Urban Phenomena
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
Session 8 - Processes around Built Heritage
Student Research Paper Presentations, and QnA
Evening Session
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Documentary Movie Screening - “Aayi, Gayi”
7:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Discussion with Film-Maker - Anandana Kapur, PhD, moderated by Prof. Alokeparna Sengupta, PhD
7:30 pm
Anandana Kapur, PhD
Assistant Dean of Research, JSAA
Vote of Thanks
7:30 pm to 7:40 pm
Prof. Jaideep Chatterjee, PhD, Executive Dean, JSAA
Closing Remarks
7:40 pm to 7:45 pm
Namrata Menon, President, Student Council, JSAA
Vote of Thanks
Special Events at the Conference
17 September, 2021 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Inaugural Keynote Lecture by
Prof. Hilal Ahmed, PhD, Associate Professor, CSDS
“The idea of Monument and the process of Monumentalization”
Followed by QnA, moderated by Prof. Sourav Banerjea
18 September, 2021 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Keynote Lecture by
Thomas Crowley, Phd Candidate, Rutgers University
“Reimagining Delhi: A view from its Hills”
Followed by QnA, , moderated by Prof. Sourav Banerjea
19 September, 2021 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Documentary Movie Screening - “Aayi, Gayi”,
Followed by a Discussion with Film-Maker - Anandana Kapur, PhD,
moderated by Prof. Alokeparna Sengupta, PhD
In case of any queries, please reach out on sbanerjea@jgu.edu.in or amaglani@jgu.edu.in