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Collaborations and projects with Biome

Summary:

The session starts with Chitra detailing the roles played by engineers, contractors, and managers with the office and several other people who were involved in the completion of projects and their smooth executions. She also takes notes of important people in the accounting department, the cook who worked in her house, as well as the help she received in taking care of her mother. She goes into detail about these elements of managing her house and family along with the office work, both in the same space. She notes the interpersonal relationships she has developed as a consequence of the merger of these two spaces and how they have worked efficiently all along. She recounts anecdotes from her time in Nigeria and how she found an affinity for community practices there. 

She then talks about the key people she collaborated with and learned from and mentions Dr. Yogananda and Professor Jagdish as being influential in her learning on construction. She goes in-depth about her association with him and his own design approach towards mud construction and planning. She describes several other collaborations she had, including one with Akshay Kaul, where she engaged in significant design discussions with him. She further talks about significant design inputs by Sanjay Singh who interacted with Biome in a unique way and helped create effective design strategies for children with disabilities on a project.  

Practitioner:

Chitra Vishwanath

Interviewee:

Chitra Vishwanath

Interviewer:

Ishita Shah

Duration:

00.37.45

Mode:

Offline

Date:

29/04/2020

Language:
English

Years:
2000-2009
Highlights:
(00:13:09) Experiences gained in Nigeria, (00:28:15) Design Strategies for visually-impaired children