random place in Auroville.
photo courtesy N.K.

CAA

After many many days the school was hustling - bustling with students, faculty, installations, mexicans, exhibitions, sheets, cats, kittens and lots of Paul & Rohan (surreal na?); everyone working to put up the CAA exhibition. The exhibition when bathed in yellow halogen lights was looking fantastic, with students’ works glitttttering, I tell you! Paul’s strange conceptualizations (sociology of technology! heh) and Rohan’s politicized, ‘Ideology – clash’ presentation of student’s work, added soofer finis to the whole atmosphere. All we fellows \ ex fellows presented our research and discussed the role played by the Research cell and Design cell in school, practice and the world! Tadda taddam. The inspection went on for 3 whole days, with Sean Connery look alike (from Netherlands) among the panel, announcing that the school (KRVIA) had received an unconditional CAA approval from the panel. Most students went celebrating that evening. Me, Prajna, Prasad, Pottu and Ubaid went to the beach. Nice it was…