WEBINAR ON:
Why Should Architects Study Conservation?
Masters in Conservation and Regeneration, Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University
Date: Thursday, 5th March 2020 | Time: 2:00 PM Date: Thursday, 5th March 2020
Time: 2:00 PM
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Date: Wednesday, 5th March 2020
Time: 2:00 pm
About The Webinar
Architectural Conservation and Urban Regeneration are youngest of the professional areas and are markers of any matured civilization. In the last decade India has seen a steady rise in efforts of conservation of its built heritage and professional opportunities in the area have multiplied.
This webinar will focus on the Masters level education for conservation and regeneration as taught at CEPT University. You can know about the experts and professionals engaged in teaching at this program and understand the pedagogy that emerges from hands on engagements with the World Heritage Site of Historic City of Ahmedabad. The program is also ably supported with Laboratory infrastructure, citizen partnerships, public organisation partnerships, professional directions and international exchanges. Students also get an exposure by participating in research activities of the Center for Heritage Conservation, CEPT Research and Development Foundation.
About Our Speaker Dr. Jigna Desai
Program Chair | Associate Professor - M Arch / MA in Conservation and Regeneration | Faculty of Architecture
Dr. Jigna Desai is an Associate Professor and is Program Chair for Masters in Conservation and Regeneration at the Faculty of Architecture. She is also Executive Director for the Center for Heritage Conservation, CEPT Research and Development Foundation. Presently, her area of study is to arrive at frameworks, tools and methods, through which theoretical ideas of sustainability and conservation of living historic environments can be translated into practice, while addressing the challenges of (co)production of space and commodification of heritage. This area of interest was triggered through her involvement with preparing the World Heritage Dossier for the Historic City of Ahmedabad where she has closely observed the transformations within the historic city. Her book Equity and Heritage Conservation, The Case of Ahmedabad (Routledge 2019) presents her research of conservation processes in the city. She has worked extensively on architecture projects and conservation research and advisory in different parts of India, carried out advocacy for community-based conservation in partnership with national and international institutions. She is an Expert member of the International Scientific Committee for Historic Towns and Villages, International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and National Scientific Counselor for ICOMOS India. Jigna has been teaching since 2002 at various institutions in India before joining CEPT University in full-time capacity in 2009. She brings to the institute, her experience in working with traditional urban environments and framing how traditional architecture may be understood, studied and transformed.