
Aishwarya Padmanabhan
Assistant Professor
Vidwan Profile
Interests
Aishwarya believes that processes of design are intertwined with the development of self, bodily experiences as well as the dynamics of the world around. She believes that design ought to emerge out of a keen understanding of people, their stories, memories, and the subjectivities that are entailed as a result of their associations with the world around them. Her approach to understanding architecture and its meaning, stems out from her interest in architectural history. History, to her, is therefore constantly in the making, transmuting with time and space, relative to individuals and leaves its traces through both tangible evidences and intangible memories/ stories associated with it. She reinstates that we ought to digress from the history of a single world and instead enter a world of histories and subsequently open up the possibility of multiple worlds, thereby being more inclusive.