Shantesh Kelvekar's paper titled "Water Beyond its Objective Realm" was shortlisted and published as part of ISOLA Conference - 2016. The paper in alignment with the conference's theme - Water & Society, touched upon the notion of water in Indian culture ranging from rituals and traditional practices to its interpretation in art forms and movies. #ISOLA #shanteshkelvekar #Conference #Paper #Publication #WaterSociety #India #GroundResearch #ReadingGrounds

Students of BMSCE in collaboration with Indian Society of Landscape Architects came together to work together between October, 2015 and January, 2016. BMSCE facilitated the initiative of ISOLA. Dealing with the issue of Water & Society, the students addressed the present condition of Vrishabhavati River in Bangalore. Shantesh Kelvekar, then as faculty of history and design at BMSCE, assisted and mentored the students along with Mohan Rao, Rahul Paul, Aditi and Sachin U. Preet

1/65 comprised of works of 65 students interpreting architects, artists and designers. Each student interpreted their inspiration's works into a 15X15X15 cm sculptures. Collectively 65 works came together to form a single installation titles 1/65. Shantesh Kelvekar along with Bhagyalaxmi was involved with the students at third year level as part of their history studio. A book was also published under the exhibition's title. BMSCE facilitated the workshop and exhibition. #165

Photographs by Shantesh Kelvekar As part of BMSCE, Shantesh Kelvekar accompanied students along with other faculty of BMSCE for a field trip to Sri Lanka to study the works of Geoffrey Bawa and understand the rich culture of Sri Lanka. During the trip, students interacted with young professionals and academicians in the field of architecture, art and design. The students got a great insight into the works of Bawa. Following their visit to Sri Lanka, the students documented th

"Urban Transmogrification: Necessity for Mutation of Spaces" is an article by Shantesh Kelvekar that was published in Issue 38 (Dec, 2013) of Journal of Landscape Architecture, India. Transmogrification is an act of changing the existing into a different form or appearance through a transformative process. The article emphasised on the necessity of such transformative spaces in the urban context. Citing examples of already existing such spaces, the article also highlighted th

How often do we write letters? Agreed that letters are now replaced by emails, and our text 'msg' vocabulary has either shortened words or replaced them with alphabets/ alpha-numeric set of characters. It's okay to be that in our fast paced world. But the question we raise is that does this provide us an opportunity in our lives to pause for a while and reconnect, in an old fashioned way, back to the art of writing letters. We consider writing letters as a form of art as it e

Members, Participants and Jury of Les Ateliers, Paris Photograph: Léa Morfoisse Preetanshi Singh and Shantesh Kelvekar were among the 24 participants who were shortlisted to participate in the competition to revive Plaine de Pierrelaye in the Greater Paris Region, France by Les Ateliers. There were in total 24 participants who came from 12 countries. Team D, comprising of Preetanshi, Shantesh and Juliette, Joseph, Préscilia, Sophia were awarded the Egis Foundation Award. The

"Capillary Infrastructure" is a collective research and dissertation of Shantesh Kelvekar and Stanley Chuang on the revival of Jintang Island, a 100 sq.km. island on the east coast of China. The government initially proposed a haphazard development with no consideration to local community, culture or traditions. The proposal was driven through in capitalistic framework. Reviewing the proposed solution by the government, Shantesh and Stanley provided an alternative approach th

The research on Jintang Island in China and the design proposal prepared by Shantesh Kelvekar and Stanley Chung part of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, 2011 at Tallinn, Estonia. The research and design proposal explored design possibilities by investigating the issue through the theories of landscape urbanism. The proposal was part of academic research at Architectural Association, London. The research was conducted at the Graduate programme of Landscape Urbanism in 2010-1

Shantesh Kelvekar presented his collaborative research with Stanley Chung at the AA School of Architecture, London as part of the Architectural Association's Graduate Programme's course review. The panel comprised of directors of the AA Graduate School - Brett Steele, Mike Weinstock, Mark Cousins, Mariana Lathouri, Jorge Fiori, Douglas Spencer and Eva Castro to name a few. The panel reviewed the quality of the research and research methodology. The intent of the presentation