NPTEL - Culturally Responsive Built Environments
offered by IIT Roorkee

Public/Government Institute
Estd. 1847

Culturally Responsive Built Environments
at
IIT Roorkee
Overview

Boost your career by mastering concepts to Culture Disasters and Risk

Duration	8 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Culturally Responsive Built Environments
at
IIT Roorkee
Highlights

Earn a E- certificate of completion from IIT Roorkee

Culturally Responsive Built Environments
at
IIT Roorkee
Course details

Who should do this course?

For Students studying Architecture, Planning, Urban and rural studies and cultural studies, working with the R&D organizations and cultural industries

More about this course

The objective of this course is to introduce Cultural Discourse in Built Environment Theory, Research, Practice and Education
To build the foundation and re-orient the students to use systems thinking and through interdisciplinary methods for bringing under one umbrella together the scientific, ecological, technological, and political dimensions of the subject of culturally responsive Built Environments

Culturally Responsive Built Environments
at
IIT Roorkee
Curriculum

Week 1

Defining Theory and Concepts

Place and Space

Introduction to Vernacular Architecture

What is a Dwelling?

Week 2

Dimensions of culturally responsive built environment

Winter Urbanism.

Week 3

Power in Built Form

Week 4

Culture Disasters and Risk

Week 5

Conservation: Principles and practices

Week 6

Vernacular resources

Materials and technology

Week 7

Planning for culture

Cultural economies

Safeguarding intangible heritage

Week 8

Social change in India

Culturally responsive built environment: Architectural education

Summarizing culturally responsive built environment

Culturally Responsive Built Environments
at
IIT Roorkee
Faculty details

Prof. Ram Sateesh Pasupuleti

Dr. Ram Sateesh Pasupuleti is a registered architect in Sweden and India. He has attained his educational qualifications from most prestigious institutions- Doctorate from SABE University of Westminster, London, UK, M.A. in International Studies in Vernacular Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.