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Dr. Badrinarayanan Srinivasan
Dr. Badrinarayanan Srinivasan

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Jul 6, 2022

Architecture, Life, and Liberation

This essay is a personal reflection on the ontology of my life as an architect from a Mahayana Buddhist perspective. …

Architecture

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Architecture, Life, and Liberation
Architecture, Life, and Liberation
Architecture

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Jun 25, 2021

The Gender of a Designer’s Mind

It is a very Human tendency to ‘essentialize’ things. This principle of ‘essentializing’ and ‘differentiating’ has been unfortunately applied to the question of gender, resulting in stereotyping of Men and Women, defining one as the ‘weaker’ sex, assigning of gender restricted roles, resulting in the dominance of and subjugation of…

Design Thinking

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The Gender of a Designer’s Mind
The Gender of a Designer’s Mind
Design Thinking

7 min read


Feb 13, 2021

Meaning Deficit Management: A Theory to Replace Work-Life Balance?

The popular notion of maintaining a ‘work-life balance’ has been challenged often in the recent years. The origin of the idea itself — that it was mooted in the 80’s America, to convince career women that they could balance their families as well as their jobs, has been half-forgotten. Instead…

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Meaning Deficit Management: A Theory to Replace Work-Life Balance?
Meaning Deficit Management: A Theory to Replace Work-Life Balance?

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Nov 7, 2020

It is Not Death We Should Fear But Birth

The pandemic has brought home the urgent truth of mortality to all humanity. When we hear that the fatality rate of the Covid-19 virus has dropped a few decimals from 10.21 to 10.18, we feel rather reassured. We think we are marginally safer. …

Philosophy

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It is Not Death We Should Fear But Birth
It is Not Death We Should Fear But Birth
Philosophy

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Oct 15, 2020

The Mobocracy of Social Media

Scenario 1 A leading Indian jewelry brand, well known for championing ‘social’ issues of women comes up with an ad campaign which depicts an inter-faith marriage between two communities. While it generates interest among many viewers, it also causes outrage among others, completely polarizing the social media. Soon, a hate campaign is…

Social Media

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The Mobocracy of Social Media
The Mobocracy of Social Media
Social Media

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Sep 26, 2020

Mentors: An Endangered Species?

Recently I was asked to guide a group of younger teachers who had just completed their one year Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) offered in-house by our design school, and had taken on the role of mentorship to guide the next cohort. In other words, as a senior…

Mentoring

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Mentors: An Endangered Species?
Mentors: An Endangered Species?
Mentoring

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Sep 12, 2020

Our Love-Hate Relationship with Narcissism

The American hatred for narcissists seems to be reaching a crescendo. As of now, it is fast climbing to the top of the US box-office chart of unpopularity, and is likely to supersede paedophiles and racists. More and more Americans seem to be discovering all of a sudden that either…

Narcissism

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Our Love-Hate Relationship with Narcissism
Our Love-Hate Relationship with Narcissism
Narcissism

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Aug 23, 2020

Design Education in India: The Three Tensions

Preamble: As an educator practicing and teaching architecture and design, I have seen so much change in design education in the last 30 odd years that it would be hard to sum it all up in one article, or even in five. Speculating about the future is even harder and…

Education Reform

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Design Pedagogy in India: The Three Big Tug-of -Wars
Design Pedagogy in India: The Three Big Tug-of -Wars
Education Reform

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Jul 22, 2020

The Bicycle School

Not long ago, in a country not so far away, people learnt to ride bicycles in two ways. The first was to simply get on a bike, try to ride by oneself, fall, and keep trying till one succeeded. This method did not involve a teacher but only a highly…

Education

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The Bicycle School
The Bicycle School
Education

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Jul 18, 2020

The Structure of Self

The Modern age has been dominated by the idea of the Individual, and that of ‘Freedom of the Individual’ to pursue happiness, growth, and fulfillment. The entire edifice of Global Capitalism rests on this tantalizing premise. The word Individual has connotations of a single indivisible unit of a group, or…

Identity

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The Structure of Self
The Structure of Self
Identity

9 min read

Dr. Badrinarayanan Srinivasan

Dr. Badrinarayanan Srinivasan

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Architect, Academic, Educator, Mentor

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