SEA Conversations: Architectural Practice in India: Session #4 - Designing Interiorscapes

Описание: SEACONVERSATIONS
monsoon 2025-26

ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE IN INDIA: A MILLENNIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
part 1

sessions*
Aug 08 Organisational Restructurings Aug 22 Urban Periphery as Experimental Field
Sep 05 Multinational Dispositions Sep 19 Designing Interiorscapes
Sep 26 Sustainability & Green Building Environmental Practices
Oct 03 Heritage Conservation Practices Oct 10 The Urban Turn / Urbanistic Impulse

*all dates for 2025
session 4
DESIGNING INTERIORSCAPES

Architectural design service in India began extending to interior design with the growth of commercial enterprises, retail environments, and large restaurants that sought expert consultancy to integrate emerging technologies—such as air conditioning, smart lighting, security systems, and audiovisual elements—into spatial design. With increased spending potential post liberalisation and a greater access to international imagery, interior design came to address the desires for aspirational living within the masses in urban domestic sphere. Therefore, architects especially saw more economic incentive in the rising demand for interior decoration and projection of luxury, mirroring broader cultural and economic transformations. Through the 2000s, the volume of interior design work multiplied, with many architects venturing into interior projects as an entry point while awaiting opportunities to build on an architectural scale. Today, when much of our time is spent indoors, the question becomes more pertinent than ever: how do we negotiate the boundaries between architecture and interior design? How does the economics of interior design differ from that of architectural practice? What technological and artistic reorientations occur in the architect’s office to accommodate this shift? Along the continuum from commercial spaces to luxury homes, do these sister disciplines merge into one another, or do they sharpen their distinctions in response to shifting cultural, technological, and lifestyle demands? What are the questions being pursued in the space of interior design?

discussants
Alpa Shikre (SSA Architects)
Faizan Khatri (FK’D Workshop)
Zameer Basrai (Busride Design Studio)
moderated by Anuj Daga, SEA


on Friday
19 September 2025
@ 6:00 PM IST

VENUE
School of Environment & Architecture
CKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091
or Join virtually via YouTube Live

The event is partly supported by Urban Centre Mumbai.
It is free and open to everyone across the world.