SANDHI is a major ‘Science-Heritage’ initiative. It means a ‘Scientific
Approach to Networking and Designing of
Heritage Interfaces’. SandHI is a recovery and recognition of our heritage through the ‘lens of science’. SandHI is also the augmentation of scientific methodology by incorporating and absorbing inputs and processes embedded in our
Indian and global traditional knowledge systems. It is the ‘Sandhi’, - the spirit of assimilation and integration of the two –
Science and Heritage that matters.
SandHI is sponsored by the
Ministry of Human Resources Development,
Department of Higher Education,
Government of India. It is an inter-institutional and people and ground centric approach. One of the main objectives is to arrive at a holistic process of design systems and pedagogy, by involving students right from the first day and positioning them in real-life piloted projects through the 16 SandHI projects.
IIT Kharagpur is exploring the various SandHI projects through an
Apex body, which consist of
Prof.
P. P. Chakraborti,
Director, IIT Kharagpur; Prof. Sunando Dasgupta (
Dean) and Prof. Pallab Dasgupta (
Associate Dean), Sponsored
Research and Consultancy
Cell (SRIC) of IIT Kharagpur and Prof. Joy Sen, of the
Department of Architecture and
Regional Planning as PI of the SANDHI initiative.
SandHI has three bandwidths of projects.
First, it has a deeper level, where
Deep science and heritage
interface based projects have been designed. Secondly, there are large scaled Geo-exploratory and geo-technical riparian based paleo-hydrological investigation; epigraphic investigation and iconographic-archaeological interpretation; and contemporary application/ tourism revival projects, which is also inclusive of a very
Mega iconic project on ‘
Varanasi’. Varanasi, as we all know, is a living river-based urban civilization of over
3500 years or more.
Third and finally, there are creative economic generation projects of which one is to re-explore the application and design of terracotta technology as a building material based on a pilot project in
Kumartuli belt,
Kolkata.
Website: www.iitkgpsandhi.org
Advisor:
Prof.
Partha P. Chakraborti, Director, IIT Kharagpur
Monitoring Cell:
Prof. Sunando Dasgupta, Dean, Sponsored Research and
Consultancy Cell, IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Pallab Dasgupta, Associate Dean, Sponsored Research and Consultancy Cell, IIT Kharagpur
Principal Investigator (overall)
Prof. Joy Sen, Department of Architecture & Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur
Professor-in-Charge, Documentation and Dissemination
Prof. Priyadarshi Patnaik,
Department of
Humanities &
Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur
SandHI
Team:
End of life care
Tulika Bhattacharyya
Chandrima Chatterjee
Jaydeep Sengupta
Dipanwita Chand
Debolina Chatterjee
Jaya Rajeev
Roopa Raju
Suchitra Pramanik
Jayalakshmi Rajeev
Sarami Ganguli
Coastal Orissa Konark
Srabani
Rath
Sweta Sen
Subhamaya
Jana
Pushpagiri
Debapriya Chakraborty
Geo quest of Varanasi (GQV)
Prerona Das
Ashok Shaw
Shahab
Anwar
Geoquest of
Chandraketugarh (
GTC)
Madhukar Srigyan
Oindrila
Bose
Geoquest of Pushpagiri (
GPO)
Mrinal
Kanti Layek
Meditation
Dr. Rashmi Mukherjee
Anirban Dasgupta
S L Happy
Suvodip Chakraborty
Supriyo Chakroborty
Anushree Basu
Subhasmita Sahoo
Anwesha Sengupta
Aritra Chowdhuri
Laxmi Shaw
Anjith
George
Laxmikant Tiwari
Subhobrata Bhattacharya
Bibek
Kabi
Varanasi (
HSS)
Sourav Sharma
Varanasi (
ARP/
School)
Deepanjan
Saha
Sunny Bansal
Mouli Majumdar
Vidhu Pandey
Dana::Generosity
Dr.
Runa Sen Chatterjee
Aditi Sen
Rashmi
Ranjan Behera
Creative Economy
Prerna
Mandal
Suparna Dasgupta
Sadhana Naskar
Tushar Kanti Saha
KMA/
River Tourism
Arundhati Patnaik
Arpan Paul
Indira Raju
Prasanna Rudravajhala
Saswati Dey (Rakshit)
Music (HSS)
Gouri Karambelkar
Sanga Chaki
Junmuni Borghain
Pinaki Gayen
Raju Mullick
Priyadarshika Talukdar
Deepak Bhuyan
Palash Nimodiya
Music (
Computer Science)
Antonio Bruto da
Costa
Sudipa Mandal
Prasenjeet
Dhara
Pradeep Rangaswamy
Gurunath Reddy
Language (
AIP)
Apala
Sarkar Ghosh
Preeti Pal
Samiran
Dhar
Language (
OPP)
Dr. Partha sarathi
Bera
Indira Chatterjee
Tanaya Mukherjee Sarkar
Iconography
Tanima Chakraborty
Tiasha Sengupta
SandHI
Movie Team:
Deepanjan Saha
Emil
Abraham
E M Sooraj
Mouli Majumdar
Shivangi Singh Parmar
Sunny Bansal
Vidhu
Pandey
Credits:
The following A/V presentations have been used only for representation purpose:
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG8Kves8CbI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQR_k-sRQwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Jl4HNDixc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9l9izo7cds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgFnCNZdHzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thz3c6vBaEY
Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f1DNyngKVY
- published: 13 Sep 2015
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