Saurabh Tewari

As part of the School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal's BReUCom (Building Resilience in Urban Communities) project team, we presented the updates on the following four case studies being carried out at the institution:

• Craft, Culture and Community - Learning Resilience from the Ziro Valley, Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh
• Transformative Resilience: The case of Two Communities in Transition, Gazdhar Bandh and Kalbadevi Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Enhancing Institutional and Community Resilience to Climate Change Impacts in the Jodhpur City - Heat Stress, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
• Enhancing Institutional and Community Resilience to Climate Change Impacts in the Jodhpur City - Water Stress, Jodhpur, Rajasthan

Building Resilient Urban Communities (BReUCom) is a project funded under European Union Erasmus+ Program in the field of Capacity Building in Higher Education. SPA Bhopal has collaborated with Danube University Krems Austria, University of Twente, KRVIA Mumbai, SPA Vijayawada, NIT Hamirpur (HP) and the Indian NGOs SPARC and CURE to develop case studies, courses and professional development programmes in the emerging field of Urban Resilience.

Note: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Presented two short papers during the Hyderabad Design Week at World Design Organisation @worlddesignorg ' s Research & Education Forum, Humanising Design, at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad on 10 October 2019.
My first paper, Towards an Ontological Expansion of Design: Thematic Threads to advance the next Design Education Paradigm, elaborates three thematic threads, which Design Education structures and networks can pursue to advance the next paradigm. Further, through researching these under-explored positions, and exploring their inherent components, it can work towards creating new forms of knowledge in design research.

As the Ahmedabad Declaration of 1979 remains a significant event in the discourse of design for development, my second paper,  Design for Development 2.0? Revisiting the Ahmedabad Declaration,  illustrated how the pedagogy, project and discourse of IDC and NID were conceptually aligned to the spirit of Ahmedabad Declaration of 1979.

Image Credits: WDO, Anmol and Harshali

Image Credits: EPCO
So, after the eight-month long exposure to Gandhian ideas it was the time to give back to the forum at EPCO. The programme, Gandhi Prasang (Gandhian Eco-philosophy Seminar), was organised at EPCO Bhopal to present our ideas to the jury and co-learners. I presented our ongoing work on the Ziro Valley through the Gandhian Lens. For a larger dissemination, I chose to present my work in Hindi as जीरो घाटी: गांधी के ‘सपनों के भारत’ की एक जीवंत कार्यशाला. 
The seminar was followed by the Award ceremony on 2nd October at the iconic Minto Hall in Bhopal. The Keynote was delivered by former Environment minister Shri Jayaram Ramesh, who also distributed the certificates to all the Gandhian Eco-philosophy Fellows.