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Pursuing higher studies and advocating continued learning

Summary:

Discussing her postgraduate studies in detail, Dr. Prabhjot Kaur mentions how she received a significant grant opportunity to study in Roorkee, which changed the course of her life for the better. She recalls the reading habit her father inculcated in her and her siblings, and how the habit developed over the years and helped her fight her sleeplessness. After her postgraduate education, she set on a quest to answer many questions she had about the potential and skill gap that architecture students could fulfill. She points out the Supreme Court’s reinforcement of the act protecting an architect’s title rather than their practice and how she recognized its inherent flaw while engaging in a dialogue with eminent Council members and institutions on the discussion. On pursuing an M.Arch at the University of Roorkee, she discusses the reasons behind choosing her research interests, her master’s journey and attaining a scholarship for further education. On pursuing her PhD at IIT Roorkee, she goes into detail about describing her presentation to her PhD committee. On her mother-in-law’s role in helping her manage her home and family as she studied and worked simultaneously, she draws a timeline of the commitments that required her to travel. She then goes on to explain the circumstances in which the family moved to Chandigarh after her transfer, and how observing her husband’s work in machinery manufacture gave her a better insight into her own work. She talks about being the first woman architect to pursue a PhD and the challenging progress she made. She closes by remarking on her experience in the field as a woman researcher and her way forward with her findings in architectural education in India.

Practitioner:

Prabhjot Kaur

Interviewee:

Prabhjot Kaur

Interviewer:

Ishita Shah

Duration:

00.25.41

Mode:

Offline

Date:

13/08/2021

Language:
English, Hindi

Years:
1990-1999, 2000-2009, 2020-2029
Highlights:
(00:03:19:30) Fighting insomnia with a strong reading habit, (00:05:33:30) Anyone can be trained to study architecture and its para-disciplines, (00:09:24:18) Architectural Education: Need for Revival, (00:14:59:30) The role of a mother-in-law in a woman's success