Dynamic Negotiations in Architecture

Post-colonial living in India's dynamic urban-scape is a negotiated living. The negotiations express multiplicity, create space for hybridization and expose hegemony. Hegemonic expression of homogenization collapse variables in a singular unit, but hybridity produces variable knowledge through simple inversion of binaries. The multiplicity of dynamic negotiations creates grounds for exerting agency and expressing identity. Through the lens of architecture, negotiations are simulated by using processes of drawing and making. These simulations, at both micro and macro scale, transpire in different directions, generating a platform for realizations, actuating human reflexivity, and discovering knowledge embedded in intuition. By exploring the dynamisms of negotiations through making and drawing, a renewed understanding of architecture is formed, helping one revisit the processes by which architecture is produced.