The foundation studio introduces students to the practice of planning by understanding the area/ward of the City.
Instructor(s) Anjana Vyas, Chintan Daftardar, Komal Agarwal, Mansi Shah, Neha Bhatt, Ravi Sannabhadti, Rutul Joshi, Shelly Kulshrestha, Shivanand Swamy, Vanishree Herlekar
As Taught in Winter 2017
Level Master of Urban and Regional Planning, 1. semester (mandatory)
Type Design Studio
Observation & perception studies
week 1 & 2
evaluation weights (4% of total course)
Understanding your ward/planning area
and its inter-linkages with the city - comparative assessment
Need identification & analysis
themes/sectors relevant to a particular local area (governance and institutions relevant to each sector cross cutting across all themes /sectors)
week 2 to 5
evaluation weights (10% of total course)
Comparative studies to identify and explore urban functions/activities
at different scales and their inter-linkages (Micro and macro linkages, inter-linkages between the different sectors and activities, backward and forward linkages of activities/functions)
Compilation of an area/ward profile
bringing together the sectoral analysis and inter-linkages between them
week 5 to 8
evaluation weights (16% of total course)
Evaluation weights (cumulating the above to 30% of the total course)
Consolidation of sectoral requirements
Understanding overlaps, conflicts and synergies; Concerns of resource allocation, environmental sustainability and socio-economic equity; Developing planning principles
week 9 to 11
evaluation weight (15% of the total course)
Developing draft proposals
Understanding of current planning practices and legislations; critical appraisals of the same and imbibing the planning principles into draft proposals *
week 12 & 13
evaluation weight (10% of the total course)
Finalisation of draft proposals
pre-final mock juries *
week 14 to 15
evaluation weight (15% of the total course)
Final portfolio assessments
week 16
evaluation weight (30% of the total course)
At these stages the individuals - whose grades are below 50% and show individual performance below par, can be detained and not allowed to appear in the final jury as decided by the studio faculty guiding them. The groups whose performance is below par can also be detained /stopped from giving the final jury presentations by the studio faculty even if the individual marks of certain students are above the cut –off of 50% of the cumulative marks declared till that point.
The foundation studio introduces students to the practice of planning by understanding the area/ward of the city.
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Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
