BUILDING THE IMAGINARY SCHOOL
MUMBAI, INDIA
2021
DESIGNED AT KRVIA
The Imaginary School is designed as the building of this community, of KRVIA as a space, as stories or narratives, virtually. Each first-year student took on the role of a ‘detective’ and discovered things about the school into which they are entering. These discoveries were made using clues that were given to them by the ‘informants’, fellow seniors. The Imaginary school of KRVIA is built collectively under five themes by groups of first-year students from across the country virtually - like an exquisite corpse project, and these ideas were brought together in one space, overlaying and imaginging the spaces of KRVIA with these narratives.
The poster is imagined as a fantasy in continuum - a land built in empty space disobeying any laws and fragmenting space and reality. As the project suggests, the space is yet to be constructed and is always in motion being built by the imagination of a collective group of people.
The Parallel Hidden School
Mentored alongside Rashmi V, Meet M, Sanjana P.
Hidden in the nooks and crevices of KRVIA, lie spaces unbeknown to the masters. It is here that a parallel universe comes to life. This is a network fueled by the students, seeking an escape from the everyday. Where monotonies are broken and revelations are made. The school becomes a place for discovering and for unravelling hidden treasures. Where spaces of working, eating, sleeping, gossiping and relaxing are carved seamlessly. The parallel network exists along with the school-presenting itself to those who seek it. The drawing attempts to explore this network that binds all these hidden corners across the school, through day and night.
Drawing made by -
Ananyaa Savant, Aarushi Kumar, Janhavi Shaha ,Ayush Baheti, Avani Mittal, Prachi Kute, Krishna Juvekar, Pranav Dolare, George Vadakekara, Aarush Nanavati, Pranjali Patil, Raj Shah , Shruti Tendulkar, Pratham Thakur, Khushi Zavar
The drawing is a collective effort of the students mentioned above and is created virtually from different parts of the country. The drawing, like a mutant expanded in all directions with several discussions and crits from the teaching assistants and mentors. The process involved the students to draw out spaces from descriptions of the school given by fellow seniors. Then stitching the drawings together virtually, to represent the school as a collective hive mind built up of the narratives about the school.