Berkeley Prize Teaching Fellowship 2013

SPA Bhopal receives Berkeley Prize Teaching Fellowship 2013 on ‘Universal Design for Cultural Interface at Sacred Site of Ujjain’

The studio will explore equal opportunity problems at Ujjain, with an overall aim to focus on ‘user centered approach’ to design for diverse users, irrespective of age, ability, gender, class, caste, religion, poverty, urban/rural background. It will also offer training in universal design through academic courses entrenched in designing for diversity, involving users and those servicing them. The objectives of the studios include: 1) Identify the environmental challenges for diverse users visiting historic pilgrimage site. 2) Identify universal design opportunities with focus on diversity in the Indian context. 3) To create enabling designs for most used facilities for everyone, like information area, sacred bath, sacred circumambulatory path and temporary shelter. 4) To develop innovative and contextual research tools to investigate design problems in India and employ practice-based approaches to social inclusion in guidance of universal design and heritage experts. 5) Publish educational process and outcomes for the universal design teaching community in India. 

	Design Exercise	Duration	No. of Students	Semester	Credits
Regular Studio Exercise-I	Interpretation Center at Ujjain with Universal Design (UD) Focus	12 weeks	75 students (of third year)	From July 2013 to December 2013	2+1=3 Credits
Integral Studio Exercise-I	Temporary Shelters for Diverse Visitors (yatri) during Kumbh Festival	2 weeks	225 students (of all years)
Regular Studio Exercise-II	Redevelopment of Shipra River Front (ghats) for Universal Usability	12 weeks	75 students (of third year)	From January 2014 to July 2014	2+1=3 Credits
Integral  Studio Exercise-II	UD for Sacred Circumambulatory paths (parikrama) at Kumbh	2 weeks	225 students (of all years)