Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats

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Today is the last day to register for tomorrows Webinar The Continual Creation of Culture: Memory, Diaspora, and Material Culture. To register and learn more about the speakers, visit https://mindfulhabitats.ca/the-continual-creation-of-cultu/. If you are unable to attend on March 24, 2021, 9:30 AM EST (USA and Canada) and 7 PM IST (India), the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats’ youtube channel will be uploading each webinar shortly after the event. To stay updated and to learn more information about the webinars, please join us and subscribe to their youtube channel and follow along. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/c/UCrRhBlLRLMeQPZ3NIS39ZIA/featured

For our second webinar this week, we are discussing: Celebrating Disruption Celebrating Disruption brings forth the architectures of celebration and the celebration of architecture, playfully accentuating the qualities of predictability and disruption as complementaries. Vibhuti Sachdev shares insights on the material culture of festivals of courtly Jaipur, identifying festivals as times of what she calls amplified living. She discusses the predictability of the festivals ...while highlighting the adaptations of rituals and traditions over time. Roger Connah shares how a studio for the National Institute of Design in India both celebrates and disrupts the norms of design thinking. Here the Nexus studio (1986) utilized, disrupted, and celebrated objects, events, and actors on the Paldi traffic roundabout. Through these discussions, the speakers deliberate on culture, architecture and design as both celebration and reference for rethinking modes and channels of rich and amplified living. Join us on March 27, 2021, 9:30 AM EST (USA and Canada) and 7 PM IST (India) for a webinar presented by Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats and the Algonquin College fourth-year Bachelor of Interior Design students. To register and learn more about the speakers, visit https://mindfulhabitats.ca/celebrating-disruption/. To learn more about the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats, visit https://mindfulhabitats.ca/

Our final two webinars are approaching! The Continual Creation of Culture: Memory, Diaspora, and Material Culture This session explores material culture and its relation to history, memory, media, and popular culture, exploring its historiography, socio-political consequences, and temporal complexities. Debasri Basu discusses objects of material culture through her research in partition literature and cinema that bracket the momentous Partition of India in 1947. Her resea...rch also looks at popular culture through the lens of diasporic writers and filmmakers. Michael Windover discusses the visual and material culture of radio in Canada. He considers, for instance, how radio receivers can operate both as mediators of instant communication and mnemonic devices, allowing users to travel virtually across geography as well as back through time, to create imagined boundaries and communities. Both speakers highlight the continual creation of culture through their investigations in design, literature, cinema, and radio. Join us on March 24, 2021, 9:30 AM EST (USA and Canada) and 7 PM IST (India) for a webinar presented by Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats and the Algonquin College fourth-year Bachelor of Interior Design students. To register and learn more about the speakers, visit https://mindfulhabitats.ca/the-continual-creation-of-cultu/. To learn more about the Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats, visit https://mindfulhabitats.ca/

Live now: This Thing called Cultural Space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WLvmJADXlk

Pallavi Swaranjali

Canadian Centre for Mindful Habitats in association with the Bachelor of Interior Design Program presents a cross-cultural series of 8 webinars, 2021 titled Mindful Conversations. 8 pairs of speakers, one from North America/Europe/UK and one from the Indian Subcontinent, are brought together in a conversation in this series which attempts to start multidisciplinary and cross-cultural conversations about Culture and Design under four broad themes:... Technology and Culture, Traditional and Regional Cultures: Age-old Spatial-Cultural Wisdom, Socio-cultural nuances and the Practice of Design, and Material Culture Event Calendar and Registrations: https://mindfulhabitats.ca/projects/mindful-conversations/ (Limited seats: Register now) See more