Bangalore Chapter - News and Events

WLAM 2023 Webinar 03: Sense of duty in citizens

WLAM 2023- Webinar 03: Sense of duty in citizens:

Lifestyle for Environment

Talk by Dr. R. Ganesan on Ecologically sensitive planting design in urban
landscapes

Date: 22nd April, 2023
Time: 5.00pm to 6.00pm

For registration contact: isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

 

WLAM 2023 Webinar 02: Sense of duty in citizens - Birds In Cities

WLAM 2023 – Webinar 02: Sense of duty in citizens: Birds in Cities

Webinar 02: Birds in Cities: Planning Urban Landscapes for Avian Biodiversity

Talk by Dr. Rajkamal G on Impact of landscape design on Avifaunal ecosystems

Time: 5.00pm to 6.00pm

For registration contact: isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

 

WLAM 2023 Webinar 01: Sense of duty in citizens

WLAM 2023- Webinar 01: Sense of duty in citizens:

Water Talk by Dr. Priyanka Jamwal on Urban water pollution and nature-based water

treatment systems

For registration contact: isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

 
 

Past News & Events

Water Sensitive Urban Landscapes

TALK 02 – Challenges, institutional governance & policy formulation associated with  water urbanism and management by Sh. Rajiv Ranjan Mishra

Date: 19.11.2022
Saturday
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 PM

Talk 02  by Sh. Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, IAS (1987 batch).

He is an Experienced Director General with a demonstrated history of working in the Government Administration industry. Skilled in Sustainable Development, Analytical Skills, Government, Urbanization, Housing, Water Resource Management, and Policy Analysis. He is a IIT Kanpur Mechanical Engineering alumnus and a strong business development professional with a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Public Administration focused in Public Administration from Syracuse University – Maxwell School, USA. and Certificate on Project Management from UC, Berkeley, USA. To know more,, please visit his linkedin profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajiv-mishra-48413553

To join the webinar, register by 11.11.2022 on the following link: https://forms.gle/8SX8ADe6VaNCGcEn7

 

Water Sensitive Urban Landscapes Talk1

TALK 01 –  Journey of Urban River Management Plan ( URMP ) in India by Dr. Victor Rana Shinde 

Date: 12.11.2022
Saturday
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

November Series’22,theme of “Water Sensitive Urban Landscapes” . 

Talk-01

Talk 01  shall be delivered by Dr. Victor Rana Shinde who has over 17 years of work experience— encompassing academics, practice, and management— in the water and environmental engineering and management sector. His areas of expertise include urban river management, urban water supply; integrated urban water management; water security enhancement; climate change adaptation in water sector; flood risk assessment; monitoring and evaluation frameworks for water and environmental sector. He has extensive experience in working on and managing large interdisciplinary research and development projects with multiple stakeholders in addition to 50+ publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, policy briefs, and knowledge products. To know more, please visit his linkedin profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-shinde-8b4aa914

 
 
 

Basics to Beyond

M.Arch (Landscape Architecture), School of Architecture, Ramaiah Institute of Technology,(RIT) Bangalore, In collaboration with Indian society of Landscape architects (ISOLA) Organizing a 5 Days workshop on Innovative thinking in Landscape Design “Basics to Beyond” from 21st to 25th February 2022.

The workshop focuses on basics & Innovative thinking in landscape design.
Many eminent speakers are invited for this workshop.

 

BSI Design Awards - Street Furniture Competition - RESULTS

BSI Design Awards – Street Furniture Competition
Knowledge Partner – ISOLA Bangalore Chapter

A unique opportunity for Designers to participate in a challenging Architectural Design Competition to explore your creative skills in Rethinking Personal Spaces and use of materials in this new Pandemic Age.

BSl Design Awards-Street Furniture – FIRST POSITION

The name of the participants : Arvind S, Arun Vel, Harish

BSl Design Awards-Street Furniture – SECOND POSITION

The name of the participants : Prasidh Kumar, Mrityunjay Pathak, Aman Chanduka

BSl Design Awards-Street Furniture – THIRD POSITION

The name of the participants : Fathima Shahlath PM

BSl Design Awards-Street Furniture – FOURTH POSITION

The name of the participants : Sreerag P, Gaurav Jha, Veera Dharsana

BSl Design Awards-Street Furniture – FIFTH POSITION

The name of the participants : Nayan Shankar Pawar

 

Thesis Open Day v. 6.0- Online Public Presentation

On behalf of ISOLA Bangalore Chapter – we are pleased to invite you to an online public presentation of THESIS OPEN DAY v. 6.0 – where recently graduated Masters in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Habitat design and Undergraduate Architectural thesis(with inclination towards landscape or urban environment) students will present their thesis cases.

The intent of this event would be to explore the scales, issues and methodologies engaged by the various disciplines in the academic sector. The intention is also to create a platform to encourage dialogue between professionals and academic approaches.

This year, the event is scheduled on an online platform (ZOOM) and this has allowed us a better outreach.The presentation of the selected six entries followed by a panel discussion are categorized into two sessions and is spread over two days.

Attached are the posters with details and a link for registration for the events is added below. Kindly circulate this to the students and faculty.

Landscape Revival – 8th oct 18:00 IST

Link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmanV1KVAiIuY2oOUoYXxQSDjk5Jb9BgF_kZTuUq56fsCrUQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0


Wildlife Habitat – 9th oct 18:00 IST

Link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefmGVg-1NlAo4Gp2ftihBg-fkE0IEkW0vlROB73rMENhVGXQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

The link to the meeting will be shared a few hours prior to the event. Looking forward to your participation.

 

Thesis Open Day v. 6.0.

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter is happy to announce the Thesis Open Day v. 6.0.
Thesis Open Day will be conducted on an online platform over 2-3 sessions, in the view of the ongoing Pandemic.

The national ISOLA Thesis Open Day is an open event, encouraging recently graduated students to present, discuss and deliberate their thesis projects in the public forum. The Thesis Open Day is primarily created as a platform for students of Landscape Architecture and other allied disciplines to present their thesis cases in order to gain an overview of the scales, issues and methodologies governing Landscape Architecture academia. The intention of the Thesis Open Day is not to critique student works, but to create an effective dialogue with the profession, outside the formality of academic institutions.

In order to make the thesis open day more interdisciplinary and engaging, apart from thesis projects from Post-graduate students, thesis works of undergraduate students (architecture and other design related fields) that intersect with the larger domain of landscape architecture are also eligible for selection.

We would encourage all students who have submitted their thesis in Academic year 2020-21 to actively participate in the event and professionals to spread the word within their academic links.

Attached is the Poster for the event with all details.

For all enquiries do write back to us at isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

 

BSI Design Awards - Street Furniture Competition

BSI Design Awards – Street Furniture Competition
Knowledge Partner – ISOLA Bangalore Chapter

A unique opportunity for Designers to participate in a challenging Architectural Design Competition to explore your creative skills in Rethinking Personal Spaces and use of materials in this new Pandemic Age.

Categories:
Open To All

Registration Fees:
250 INR (Max group of 3/individual)

Important Dates:
Registration Starts: 5th June
Registration Ends: 3rd July
Last Submission Date: 10th July

Awards:
1st Prize: 25,000 INR
2nd Prize: 10,000 INR
3rd Prize: 5,000 INR

All the participants will be awarded an E-Certificate

The TOP 3 Winning entries will be published on all the official pages of the hosting partner organisations

Queries:
+91-9731814333
bsi.kc.blr@gmail.com

 

Ask and We Answer 6

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter presents to you experiences, ideas and opinions by our members to some basic questions about ou profession, on the occassion of WLAM.

Question: What advice would you give to graduates and young professionals in this field?
Question: And to youngsters who must be contemplating to dive into landscape ??

Release Date : 29th April 2021

 

Ask and We Answer 5

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter presents to you experiences, ideas and opinions by our members to some basic questions about ou profession, on the occassion of WLAM.

Question: Do you have do’s and dont’s of landscape design?
Question: Apart from Landscape being a part of academic discourse, as a subject, how else can it be integrated at B.Arch level? Is it necessary??

Release Date : 29th April 2021

 

Ask and We Answer 4

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter presents to you experiences, ideas and opinions by our members to some basic questions about our profession, on the occassion of WLAM.

Question: What types and scales of projects do you enjoy working on the most?
Question: What do you enjoy about the process of making landscape proposals?

Release Date : 22nd April 2021

 

Ask and We Answer 3

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter presents to you experiences, ideas and opinions by our members to some basic questions about ou profession, on the occassion of WLAM.

Question: What were the early influences that strengthened the relationship with landscape profession?
Question: The landscape profession has much pressure in current times, due to continous engagement with environment? Is this pressure felt constantly while at work??

Release Date : 15th April 2021

 

Ask and We Answer 2

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter presents to you experiences, ideas and opinions by our members to some basic questions about ou profession, on the occassion of WLAM.

Question: What is the role of landscape profession given today’s situation and how has it changed / evolved from over the years?
Question: What is it about Landscape architecture that made you choose the field?

Release Date : 8th April 2021

 

Ask and We Answer 1

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter presents to you experiences, ideas and opinions by our members to some basic questions about ou profession, on the occassion of WLAM.
The videos will be released over the month of April!
Look at this space for more!!

 

Thesis Open Day 5.0

Thesis Open Day 5.0
(ISOLA BANGALORE EVENT 2019-2021 – 6th Event)

Date: 15th, 16th, 17th October / Thursday- Saturday
Time: 6:00pm – onwards

On behalf of ISOLA Bangalore Chapter – we are pleased to invite you to an online public presentation of THESIS OPEN DAY v. 5.0 – where recently graduated Masters in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Habitat design and Undergraduate Architectural thesis students will present their thesis cases.

The intent of this event would be to explore the scales, issues and methodologies engaged by the various disciplines in the academic sector. The intention is also to create a platform to encourage dialogue between professionals and academic approaches.

The presentation followed by panel discussion of the selected ten entries are categorized into three sessions and is spread over three days. Do register for the event using the following links.


Landscape revival – 15th oct 18:00 IST

https://forms.gle/Zn73dP9nYsyd1wrs8

Urban commons – 16th oct 18:00 IST
https://forms.gle/ZQ2je1vyinpEjfE89

Landscape interpretation – 17th oct 18:00 IST
https://forms.gle/F8jbpx8YRtwQ9WoL6

Contact for Queries
isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

 

TALK 3 - “Sabbatical Stories” By Prashanta Bhat

TALK 3- “ Sabbatical Stories” By Prashanta Bhat

Principal Landscape Architect: The Landscape Company

Prashanta Bhat and his family chose to take an 8 month sabbatical to stay in Peru and travel around the magnificent country. The Tambopata National Reserve [Amazon forest] was one among the various highlights of his travel. Along with sharing the memorable travel stories, the talk will also highlight the need of such breaks for our profession- a time to detox, soul search and learn.

Date 28th August 2020 [Friday]
Time: 6pm to 7pm

Kindly register to get reminders @
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J2xPerSuy9gY2Xm7mzy5bRbRxHDS25iRHBdi6q2GEf4/edit?usp=drivesdk

To join the talk, click on the following link:
https://meet.google.com/riy-tivs-jvw

 

Hydrophonics the future of clean, fresh and healthy greens

TALK 2-“Hydroponics: the future of clean, fresh and healthy greens” by the team of Bit of Greens

What is the future of food and farming?

Growing our own food seems to be the only way forward and the team of Bit of Greens want to empower you to do just that.
They are a hyper-local hydroponics agritech startup and have their farm set up in Hennur. The three team members are huge foodies and have known each other for three decades and hence set off on this venture to make greens safer, cleaner and more accessible.

To know more about their works, visit: @bitofgreens [Instagram]

Date– 14th August 2020 [Friday]
Time: 6pm to 7pm

Kindly register to get reminders @
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1I7JQa91OM7vE-sGZg5aIZcVW3_kB0wpHnq059uVi1o4/edit?usp=drivesdk

To join the talk, click on the following link:
https://meet.google.com/rus-sbpb-vto

 

A Brief stroll through BRIEF garden, Sri Lanka

TALK 1- “A Brief stroll through BRIEF garden, Sri Lanka” by Dan de Silva

The Brief garden in Aluthgama, Sri Lanka was developed over years of experimentation and persistent involvement by Bevis Bawa.
Dan de Silva, a Landscape designer and owner of the garden, will take us through a live tour of the wanderlust tropical garden explaining its history, design, the spaces and the plant composition. Welcome to participate in our first international event.

To know more about his works, visit:
https://www.facebook.com/briefgardendesigns/videos/737892623634136/
www.briefgarden.com

Date: 7th August 2020 [Friday]
Time: 4pm to 5pm

Kindly register to get link to the talk @
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zbUAvNHFb0b6T-xUk2DPNink0XsohkTNqy9wxhUbsgg/edit?usp=drivesdk

 

July Web-Talk series Talk 03

Talk 03: “Birds in Natural and Urban Landscapes” by Jobin Varughese, a PhD student in Biological Sciences at IISER Tirupati.

Part of JULY WEB-TALK SERIES
A series of talks around the central theme of Ecologically Sensitive Design Solutions. We have professionals from inter-disciplinary fields as our guest speakers for the talks. The talks are scheduled on three consecutive Fridays. Kindly mark your calendars and join us for the talks by just a click on the link.

Jobin is awarded with the Prime Minister Research Fellowship to conduct his study on the distribution of understory birds and their range expansion following the invasion of exotic plantations in the cloud forests of south Western Ghats. While working as a professional landscape architect, he realised the importance of integrating animal movement into landscape designs. In future, he wants to research upon the movement patterns of birds within their landscapes.

His talk would revolve around Avian ecology in Natural and Urban landscape.

Date: 31.07.2020
Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Register to get reminders for the talk few hours before @ https://forms.gle/S8ZGJFo5ofJuxR9LA

To participate
Link to talk: https://meet.google.com/utn-rwgo-byg

Contact for Queries
isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

 

July Web-Talk series EVENT 4 Talk 02

July Web-Talk series

Talk 02: “Ecological Restoration” by OIKOS: For Ecological Services – an inter-disciplinary Pune-based consultancy founded by Ketaki Ghate and Manasi Karandikar . Their work involves ‘nature restoration’ and ‘biodiversity conservation’ for land development activities.
To know more about their works, visit: http://oikos.in/html/index.html

Speaker: Ketaki Ghate
Date: 24.07.2020
Time: 6.00 PM-7.00PM

Kindly register to get link to the talk @ https://forms.gle/YykSDdRQaKHmUuye9
(link will be sent one hour prior to the talk)

 

July Web-Talk series Talk 01: Regenerative Designs by Team ANANAS

Event Name: July Web-Talk series on Ecologically Sensitive Design Solutions
Talk 01: Regenerative Designs by Team ANANAS

Date: 17.07.2020
Time: 6.00 PM-7.00PM

Online July Web Talk Series
A series of talks around the central theme of Ecologically Sensitive Design Solutions. We have professionals from inter-disciplinary fields as our guest speakers for the talks. The talks are scheduled on three consecutive Fridays. Kindly mark your calendars and join us for the talks by just a click on the link.

Talk 1: “Regenerative Designs” by ANANAS – a team of three permaculturists working on ecological landscape design. Their works focus on harvesting water, creating forests and designing whole ecological systems through their designs. To know more about their works, visit: https://ananas.design/

For Registration and to receive email link for easy access email to isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

Google Meet link:
https://meet.google.com/tqo-pnwq-kik

Kindly register to get reminders @ https://forms.gle/VoZGdxGygq4vQuuk9

Contact for Queries
isolabangalorechapter@gmail.com

 

Third Event @ ISOLA BANGALORE EVENT 2019-2021

Dear Isola Members,

DAY-01
ISOLA Bangalore Chapter conducted an event on 30th Nov 2019, Exchanges and Interactions where works of eight up-coming landscape architects presented their works in an informal set-up. The event continued into discussions on the presented works.

DAY-02
ISOLA Bangalore Chapter along with Basant Betons had arranged a Factory visit to the production unit of Basant Betons in Harohalli in the outskirts of Bangalore. The process of making products available for hardscapes were explained and the options that we can work with to get required colours, patters and combinations was explored.

 

Thesis Open Day V. 4.0

The Thesis open day v 4.0 was conducted on 31st August 2019, by ISOLA Bangalore chapter with BMS College of Architecture, Bull Temple Road as Institutional Partners. Like our previous versions of TOD, This year too, we got a very good response from various Colleges across the Country. We had around 30 entries from which 10 were selected for presentation under three panels, namely: Natural Landscapes, Cultural Landscape and Urban Landscapes. The deliberations during panel discussions brought about interesting issues like non-human-centric designs in natural bird habitats to role of Landscape architect in politically upheld scenario in Urban landscapes.

Date : August 31st , 2019
Location: B.M. SREENEEVASAIH AUDITORIUM, Bangalore

 

A WALK IN THE VALLEY SCHOOL

ISOLA Bangalore organised a Valley school nature walk conducted by the team Ecoedu. The 3 hr walk explored the rich biodiversity of the forest  comprising of the jungle vegetation and the diverse varieties of birds, butterflies and insects.

Kudos to the participants, organisers and the team- Ulhas Anand  and T.S. Srinivasa, in making it an engaging and eventful session

Date : June 22nd, 2019
Location: Valley School, Bangalore

Valley School Walk - PDF

 

ReThinking Design

No Photo Gallery

With the intent of collaborating with allied professions, ISOLA Bengaluru Chapter and the Indian Institute of Architects Karnataka Chapter and BuildoTech, jointly organized a day-long conference on December 15, 2018 titled “ReThinking Design.”  The conference opened with the theme of ReThinking Landscape with a presentation by Landscape Architect Bobby Sujansingani, Founder Principal of Beyond Green, Ahmedabad.

Bobby Sujansingani presented various projects which were rich in details. Bobby highlighted the issues a landscape architect deals with while working on projects of various scales. From paving design to planting details, from lighting to art work – Bobby’s projects expressed the spectrum of scope of a landscape architect.

The panel discussion that followed with Bobby Sujansingani, Nina Chandavarkar, Prashanta Bhat and Preetanshi Singh was an interactive session with the audience. It was a good summation for the architectural fraternity, illuminating our diverse capabilities from site planning to outdoor design.

Date: December 15, 2018
Location : The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru

 

ISOLA Thesis Open Day 3.0

The ISOLA Thesis Open Day 3.0 was a one-day open event, encouraging recently graduated students to present, discuss and deliberate their thesis projects in the public forum. The Thesis Open Day was primarily created as a platform for students of Landscape Architecture and other allied disciplines to present their thesis cases in order to gain an overview of the scales, issues and methodologies governing Landscape Architecture academia. The intention of the Thesis Open Day was not to critique student works, but to create an effective dialogue with the profession, outside the formality of academic institutions.

A two-stage selection process witnessed a fairly inter disciplinary collaboration of projects being submitted for the event, from which a total of 10 cases were selected for the event.

 

Architecture-Landscape Collaboration Workshop Series1

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter conducted a series of Lectures titled ” Architecture-Landscape Collaboration Workshop series 1″ , in which ISOLA Collaborated with various Architectural Colleges in Bangalore in their Design Studios to mentor the students in their Site Planning and Site Analysis Stage of the design project. The idea of the workshop was to involve professionals academically and create awareness within Architectural Students about Landscape and its scope.

This was conducted across the months of March – April 2018

We have ISOLA Members reaching out to various colleges as follows:
1. MS Ramaiah College, Architetcure Department: Ms. Nina Chandrawarkar and Mr. Sachin Ubbarada
2. Dayanand Sagar Institute: Mr. Prasanta Bhat and Ms. Priya Raju
3. BMS College of Architecture, Bull temple Road: Ms. Monica Nair
4. RV College of Architecture: Mr. Mohan S Rao

 

An Evening with Cezanne

An Evening with Cezanne

Madame Anne Dupin presented Cezanne’s famous landscape painting of Mt.Saint Victoire in ‘Glimpse into Cezanne’ . Cezanne played a huge part in evolution of Art in Europe and Picasso used to say “Cezanne is a father to all [artists]”.

The speaker for the day, Madame Anne Dupin was a professor of French language and French Literature in Aix-en-Provence, where Cezanne was born. She has taught courses in History of Art, covering the period between 1860 and Second World War, including Impressionism and Cubism. Anne focused over landscape in Cezanne’s paintings especially Mt. St. Victoire.

The evening talk was hosted by OIKOS and CnT at a small OAT space , set within rocks and covered by spread of huge trees in the rear side of their shared office space. The setting complimented the talk by creating a nice ambience.

Location: Oikos and CnT Architects office
Date : 22nd February 2018

 

Chapter General Body Meeting

The General Body Meeting.

 

Discussion with Professor Nilay Mistry

ISOLA Bangalore Chapter in Association with Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago’s Bangalore Office, had organised a discussion with Professor Nilay Mistry, Landscape Architecture Program IIT Chicago.
The discussions included Presentation of recent MLA student works and current research at IIT Chicago.

Invite - PDF

 

Thesis Open Day v2.0

The ISOLA Thesis Open Day, in collaboration with the INDIA INSTITUTE OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS (IIHS), was held in Bangalore on the 20th of August 2016. It was the second such event hosted by the ISOLA Bangalore Chapter, following its lasts year’s event, to nurture and discuss on the ideas of the landscape profession through academic cases. This year the notion of the event was conceptually expanded, allowing students from both undergraduate and post graduate courses to submit their thesis cases that intersected with the landscape profession at large. A two-stage selection process witnessed a fairly inter disciplinary collaboration of projects being submitted for the event, from which a total of 14 (Fourteen) cases were selected for the event.

What precipitated was an intense discussion on contexts from varied bio-climatic regions – ranging from Gujarat to Karnataka, from Mumbai to Jharkhand – each poignantly positioning their thesis to respond and reciprocate the landscapes of their selected region. Such an eclectic mix of projects also broadly aligned themselves to certain landscape associations – NATURAL, CULTURAL and the URBAN. A similar categorization was then established to consolidate the projects into sessions – with the primary focus on creating an effective and critical dialogue on the profession and less on the individual works of participating students.

For more details CLICK HERE

 

Blue Rhymes Exhibition

LA Journal curated an exhibition on the occasion of the Annual conference of Indian Society of Landscape Architects held at Bangalore on 22- 23 January 2016.

BLUE RHYMES looked at built and unbuilt contexts, narratives from the past and present, examples in practice and academics and traditional practices from Indian subcontinent that have shown diverse thinking and values in maintaining an evolved and symbiotic relationship with water.

Touching upon the examples of use of water in traditional settlements and heritage precincts, showcasing water eco zones, outlining the relationship that the natural resource has shared with the community in regional harvesting systems and in few of the architectural expressions like step wells and linking the theme with the present day spatial design paradigm, the exhibition tries to bring together varied perspectives of looking at the idea in the realm of nature and culture.

 

Public Exhibition: Water and Society

The ISOLA Bangalore Chapter had organized a public exhibition Water and Society – the student interface in the city between the 21–23 of January 2016.

The exhibition was a collection of students’ works and their perspectives on the theme of the 11th ISOLA Annual Conference – Water and Society – expanding the blue revolution. The exhibition was an eclectic mix of ideas, strategies, visions, narratives as well as analytics of the notion of water and its correlation and interface with the urban and the society at large.

The exhibition was organized in collaboration with BMSCE, Bangalore; MSRIT, Bangalore, UVCE, Bangalore, RVCA, Bangalore, the LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION of INDIA and LA Journal of Landscape Architecture.

For more details CLICK HERE

 

Professionals Speak: Curating Landscape Spaces

“Professionals Speak”- a platform where landscape architecture professionals of the city discussed the profession through key lenses of the discipline, was the second habba hosted by ISOLA Bangalore Chapter. The habba is meant to expose the varied engagement of the profession with the public. The event hosted in collaboration with the BMS College of Engineering, Basavangudi was targeted to provide students an overview of the landscape architecture discipline through professional works undertaken at various scales and geographies. The habba was structured to discuss on a broader understanding of the Landscape Architecture in the realm of 1. Landscape and Ecology; 2. Urban Landscapes and 3. Landscape Engineering.

Mr.Rohit Marol, principal TERRA FIRMA, was the first speaker of the afternoon, emphasizing the need for integrating landscapes as an experiential component to channelize and guide urban spaces. Mr. Marol structured his talk by collating a series of project vignettes to express the various physical and experiential connects that landscape can imbibe with the user based on typological articulation. Through his talk of exploring the potentials of landscape to give a character to urban spaces, one of the key highlights was understanding the temporal nature of urban space. His talk emphasized that though urban landscapes are designed for a specific expression, it had to have the capacity to adapt to changing demands and use of space based on user preferences.

For more details CLICK HERE

 

Thesis Open Day

The Thesis Open Day organized by the ISOLA (Indian Society of Landscape Architects) Bangalore Chapter at the IIHS (Indian Institute of Human Settlements), Bangalore was the first of the several Habbas (kannada term for events), that ISOLA Bangalore Chapter is hosting to engage the discipline in varied capacities with the public, as a lead up to the annual conference scheduled for January 2016.

The Thesis Open Day was primarily created as a platform for selected recently graduated students of Landscape Architecture discipline to present their thesis cases in order to give an overview of the scales, issues and methodologies that governs the academic groundwork for the Landscape Architecture profession

The Thesis Open Day evening witnessed presentations by 10 (ten) recent graduates, each positioning their areas of study in their native region that ensured an eclectic mix of contexts across the country ranging from sates of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Punjab. Each thesis case was hypothesised on an environmental concern such as preparation of guidelines of iron ore mining; understanding of livelihoods related agriculture and cultural landscapes; rejuvenation of river systems to address ecological balance; assessment and conservation of wetlands, management of  natural resources within urban contexts to even understanding the new typology of urban parks addressing social and environmental inadequacies of 21st century as well as preservation of historical landscapes. (For details of each thesis case download synopsis document).

For more information CLICK HERE