The session begins with Nalini Thakur talking about her contributions to academia while teaching at SPA, and insights into teaching which she devoted almost her entire career to. She provides details about the ways in which her teaching work and her conservation efforts intersected, her comments on the heritage walks conducted as part of the Delhi conservation project, and the concept she developed called Active Learning. She recounts her engagements and experiences during the time she spent as the Secretary of the Delhi Conservation Society, and describes her observations of that time. Repeatedly through these discussions, she notes how many of the people who engaged with these projects and its activities monumentally lacked any knowledge whatsoever about heritage and conservation practices, which helped her form ideas on what a good education should entail. She then goes on to talk about further projects, their challenges and outcomes, as well as shortcomings. 

Going into further detail about her efforts in conservation studies, she lists out the ways in which she has tried to inculcate a good awareness of the subject within her pedagogy while teaching architecture and conservation together, and then goes on to detail the historical and anthropological significance of conservation studies.