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...

  We have been constantly affected by the rising cases of human-canine conflicts in Kerala. Our friends who work with canines find that inter-species miscommunication and misunderstanding is at the core of this conflict. Unscientific disposal of food waste on streets being another reason for these rising conflicts. This is a proposal we prepared alongside NGO Hands for Paws and with inputs from Volunteers of PFA to develop a model infrastructure at the neighbourhood level in Trivandrum City. Designed in the model of a recreational space, the infrastructure adopts a cooperative structure of public private partnership. The local government could initiate this infrastructure by identifying unused, unoccupied private or public land in the city's neighbourhoods. The land could be taken on lease or on rent and the infrastructure could be operated and run by the resident associations themselves. Services of Kudumbasree could be used to collect food waste from the neighbourhood, feeding st...