Listen "Seema Khanwalkar: Meaning and Materiality"
Episode Synopsis
Seema Khanwalkar is a semiotician working in the area of cultural semiotics. She teaches courses on meaning and design at CEPT, IIM Ahmedabad and various other institutions. Seema also practices as a consultant in brand development and advertising analysis.
In this podcast, Seema Khanwalkar looks at associations between human beings and artifactual environments. Through the lens of anthropology and ecology, she unlocks the relationship the human body has with shelter and objects in them, which are not always evident to the architects and town planners. Using the theory of affordance, she looks at the designs of some of the mint architects in India such as Charles Correa and Balakrishna Doshi.
In this podcast, Seema Khanwalkar looks at associations between human beings and artifactual environments. Through the lens of anthropology and ecology, she unlocks the relationship the human body has with shelter and objects in them, which are not always evident to the architects and town planners. Using the theory of affordance, she looks at the designs of some of the mint architects in India such as Charles Correa and Balakrishna Doshi.
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