Mathur / Da Cunha

2021

Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur present “Land by Design,” an online Pratt SoA Provocation Lecture, Pratt: School of Architecture, November 8, 2021

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha were keynote speakers for ECLAS 2021(European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools), an online Conference hosted by SLU, Uppsala, Sweden, on the theme of “Stop and Think,” September 13, 2021

Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur present “Wetness Everywhere,” In Practice Lecture Series, GSAPP, Columbia University, June 9, 2021

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present the “Death and Life of Wetness,” in Charting the Alive Symposium sponsored by Roma TRE / American Academy in Rome, May 13, 2021

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present “Displacing 3 Grounds of Design,” Explorative Series on Ground, USC Architecture, April 22, 2021

Mathur / da Cunha discuss “Ocean of Wetness,” at the Intersectional Climate Conversations towards COP26—Symposium, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, March 16, 2021

Dilip da Cunha offers opening remarks for the launch of Monsoonal Multiplicities Exhibition curated by Lindsey Bremner, University of Westminster, London, March 04, 2021

Dilip da Cunha presents “Design in Wetness” at McGill University, February 23, 2021

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present “Ocean of Wetness” at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, January 14, 2021

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present “Ocean of Wetness”as the Annual Paul Sangha Lecture, School of Architecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, January 11, 2021

2020

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present “Design in the Critical Zone,” at the Avani Institute of Design, Calicut, December 16, 2020

Dilip da Cunha presents “Water to Wetness: River to Rain,” at Goldsmith University, December 4, 2020

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are keynote speakers at the World Architecture Festival Virtual, December 1, 2020

Dilip da Cunha presents with Geeta Mehta “Water-led Design,” ISOLA TN & PY Chapter, September 12, 2020

Dilip da Cunha discusses “Decolonizing the ground of heritage,” as part of the Decolonizing Heritage Exhibition, Heritage Bangladesh Foundation with The Society of Architecture and Urban Historians of Asia, August 29, 2020

Dilip da Cunha presents “Water to Wetness: Yamuna and Ganga as Rain rather than Rivers,” Poché Conversations, August 24, 2020

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha participate in the exhibition “Critical Zones” developed by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition opened virtually on May 22, 2020 and will remain open till the end of February 2021

Dilip da Cunha presents a public lecture —“In Rain is the Commons”— at Carlton University, Ottawa on March 9, 2020

Dilip da Cunha is invited speaker at School of Environmental Architecture (SEA), Mumbai, February 8, 2020

2019

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present their work at the Amsterdam Academy, Amsterdam, December 5, 2019

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha were invited speakers at the World Architecture Festival 2019 in Amsterdam, December 4, 2019

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha were Invited speakers for the “How do you Landscape” colloquium, TU Delft, December 2, 2019

Dilip da Cunha spoke at the University of Washington campus in Seattle on May 22, 2019. His lecture, titled "Design with Wetness," was part of the Department of Landscape Architecture Spring 2019 lecture series

Vikram Prakash engages Dilip da Cunha on Rethinking Rivers as Wetness in his podcast Architecture Talks, June 19, 2019

The Oskar von Miller Forum invite Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha as keynote speakers, Munich, May 9, 2019

Dilip da Cunha speaks at "The Invention of Rivers," Book Event, organized by Harvard Alumni Architectural and Urban Society, New York, April 11, 2019

Dilip da Cunha presents "Designing an Ocean of Rain," at the National Architecture Students Association, Bangalore, January 20, 2019 

Anuradha Mathur, Nikhil Anand and Dilip da Cunha convene the Inhabited Sea Workshop at IIT, Mumbai, January 12, 2019 supported by a University of Pennsylvania IREF Grant (India Research Engagement Fund). The workshop included academics from leading social science, design, and engineering institutions in Mumbai as well as independent artists, designers, and activists.

2018

The Invention of Rivers book launch and reception with presentations by John Dixon Hunt, Dilip da Cunha, Joseph McElroy, Catherine Bonier, and Michael Meister was held at the Kislak Center, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 29, 2018

Dilip da Cunha presents "Two Indias: Landscape / Rainscape," at the ASLA Convention, Philadelphia, October 19, 2018

 Anuradha Mathur receives an IREF award for her proposal Reclaiming India’s Nalas

Anuradha Mathur with Nikhil Anand receives another IREF award for their proposal The Inhabited Sea

Dilip da Cunha presents “Land drained by Rivers vs Ocean of Rain,” at the Annual Conference of the Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics, Kochi, July 12 -15,

Dilip da Cunha presents “Design in the Ocean of Rain,” at the Research and Architecture Symposium, Dayananda Sagar College of Architecture, Bangalore, July 10, 2018

Mathur / da Cunha participate in the exhibition COLLAPSE: CLIMATE, CITIES, CULTURE at the Gallatin Gallery, NYU, 1 Washington Place, New York (June 12 to June 29, 2018)

Dilip da Cunha presents at the “Rising Waters” workshop on urban waterscapes hosted by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, April 17, 2018, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Dilip da Cunha and Anuradha Mathur present "The Jungle's Call for Wetness," the Patrick Geddes Center Inaugural International Lecture, Edinburgh, April 14, 2018

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha  present ‘Ocean of Rain’ as keynote speakers at the ‘Monsoon [+ Other] Waters’ Symposium, April 12, 2018, University of Westminster, London

Dilip da Cunha publishes essay "The Jungle's Call" in the Harvard Design Magazine, No.45-S/S 2018

Dilip da Cunha publishes essay "River Literacy and the Challenge of a Rain Terrain" in Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures, edited by D. Venkat Rao, Routledge India, 2018

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha were the inaugral Keynote speakers in the "Year of India: Envisioning the Future and Understanding the Realities of India's Urban Ecologies" lecture series, Kennesaw State University, Department of Architecture, Marietta, GA, March 16, 2018

2017

Mathur / da Cunha launch Ocean of Wetness – a transdisciplinary platform, critical design practice, and pedagogical initiative / December 2017

Mathur / da Cunha win competition for Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Science City Project, Bihar, India with Flying Elephant Studio + GSM + Gleeds / November 2017

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are keynote speakers at the IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architect’s Symposium in Bangkok / November 2017

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha’s essay “Two Waters,” is published in Flows: India through Water,” a book conceived by Sunjoy Monga, Yuhina Ecomedia, Mumbai / November 2017

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present “designing the place of water” in the Workshop in the History of Material Text lecture series hosted by Rare Books Collection, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania / October 2017

Dilip da Cunha presents “Design in an Ocean of Wetness” at Architecture Talks, PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania / October 2017

Dilip da Cunha receives the Furthermore Grant for the publication of his forthcoming book, "Invention of Rivers: Alexander's Eye & Ganga's Descent," University of Pennsylvania Press.

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha win a 2017 PEW Fellowship Grant in the Arts for their collaborative work / June 2017

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present “Waters Everywhere” at the GIDEST seminar at the New School, New York / May 2017

Dilip da Cunha presents “Is Urbanism Colonialism by Design Consent?” at the Design Anthropology: Landscapes and Cities Symposium, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University / April 2017

Dilip da Cunha presents at the Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age Symposium, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University / April 2017

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha’s essay “Designing the Coast in the Moment of Rain,” published in Infrastructure Space, edited by Ilka & Andreas Ruby of Ruby Press, Berlin / March 2017

Anuradha Mathur presents 'Inquiries & Propositions,' at the University of Virginia, School of Design / February 2017

2016

Anuradha Mathur presents at the De-Coding Asian Urbanism Symposium at the GSD Harvard University / November 2016

Anuradha Mathur is Keynote Speaker at the 9th Landscape Architecture Biennale in Barcelona / Oct 2016

Anuradha Mathur is jury member for the 2016 Rosa Barba Prize for excellence in design / Oct 2016

Dilip da Cunha presents “After River / After Landscape,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis / October 2016

Dilip da Cunha presents “Design in Planning,” Graduate School of Design, Harvard University / October 2016

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are Keynote Speakers at the Landscape Architecture as Necessity, Symposium at USC, Los Angeles / September 2016

Anuradha Mathur participates in The New Landscape Declaration: A Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future, organized by the Landscape Architecture Foundation and PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania / June 2016

Anuradha Mathur presents at the Delta Dialogues series hosted by the Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH, Zurich / April 2016

Dilip da Cunha discusses his “Current Work,” at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University / April 2016

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present their work at the Infrastructure Space symposium in Detroit hosted by the LafargeHolcim Forum / April 2016

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha visit the University of Edinburgh as Geddes Fellows / February 2016

Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha present public lectures “Design in the Moment of Rain,” and “Where does Design Begin,” at the University of Edinburgh / February 2016

Dilip da Cunha presents keynote lecture “Ganga’s Descent / Dissent,” at Indian Society of Landscape Architect’s Annual Conference, Bangalore / January 2016

Dilip da Cunha presents “Maidan as a Moment of Inquiry,” at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology / January 2016