Studiocommune

We are not all humans! So why engage with architecture merely as humans do?  This question emerges from the fundamental question of who dwells in a building? The exploration of context and the artefacts (especially architecture), for our practice as Studio Commune emanate from this provocation that architecture is a connected ecology of beings as against architecture as an artefact or product of and for human consumption alone.Machine knowledge has impregnated our everyday life to the very extend of deciding the atmospheres we dwell in, the mood set within the habitable interiors, to what to see and how to see. Silently, yet in a significant way, non-human living beings have also shared our built environment creating spaces within spaces and home within homes. Responding to the growing literature on decolonisation of architecture,  this proposal attempts to take a post-human and more-than-human position to understand, decipher, record and create architecture through the powers...

COMMUNE RESEARCH FELLOW 2022, Sanjana Bhatnagar is entering her final year at Pitzer college in Claremont, California where she is double majoring in Philosophy and Environmental Analysis. She has been exploring the nature of entanglement of self and the space at Kallayi, Calicut. She is interested in understanding and designing built environment which are fully integrated within their ecosystems, holding space not just for humans, but all who make up an ecosystem (such as plants, non human animals, and soil). Next year she will complete her thesis which delineates a phenomenological framework for biomimetic architectural practices.