ACEDGE

The current global scenario has triggered extensive debates on not only our future as a sustainable global economy but also on the need to return to our ‘origins’. At Sushant University School of Art and Architecture, we attempt to integrate these questions into a year long discourse around a material that has its genesis in the past, yet is versatile enough to respond to the technological challenges of the future – MUD. In the second trimester, we delve into Evolving Typologies, Scaling-UP and Skilling-UP. We bring together the People of Mud, deliberate on what is the Mud of People, all the while enquiring into 'What is Mud?' Scaling-Up explores the implications of projecting mud as a mainstream material of the people. It examines the challenges, when the uses are transferred from private to the public realm. This transfer brings about formational and technological changes of its scale, sophistication, aesthetics and commodification. Scaling-Up of mud with new techniques and methods, raises questions of authenticity of its application to contemporary urban users.