Gauri Bharat - Bio
Gauri Bharat teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad India and is particularly interested in exploring design and research methodologies that prioritise user’s engagements with built environments. In the past six years, she has conducted courses on architectural design, humanities and research methods, and experiments with immersing students in the complexity of urban environments in order to understand the contexts in which architecture is produced, used and transformed. Drawing from these experiences, she is presently developing postgraduate courses on architectural history and theory with a distinct emphasis on ‘how’ rather than ‘what’ architectural discourses develop.
Gauri’s teaching efforts are supported by her doctoral research on indigenous perceptions of built environments. Over a two-year fieldwork period in indigenous villages in eastern India she carried out architectural documentation, ethnographies, and participatory visual research. Through processes of dialogue with the case study communities, she is attempting to develop a participatory and inter-subjective indigenous architectural history.
Gauri is also interested in folktales, cultures of food, and popular visual culture such as calendar or truck art, and hopes to have an archive of such material sometime in the future. She has also become actively interested in feminist academic discourses given her own attempts at work-life balance as a mother of two young children.
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