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The Bachelor of Architecture programme was started in 2015 at IGDTUW as a step towards social equity and gender parity in technical professions.
Buildings do not exist in isolation. They exist as an interface between the micro level and macro level contextual variables. As a result, they have a potential to play a unique and important role in ensuring the well-being of the context in which they are placed.
It is imperative that architectural education should empower students to become protagonist of positive change by exploring, learning and practicing a sustainable form of architecture. The concept of sustainability encompasses not just environmental variables, but also issues of livelihood, poverty, migration, food security, democracy, human rights and peace. Architects have an important social responsibility to fulfill - now and in future.
Architectural education should be geared towards deepening awareness about environmental as well as social issues and realities. However, this by itself is incomplete. It is important that students are able to reflect on their own role in creating a sustainable world. They should be able to understand how their informed decisions can have a major impact on creating a sustainable world. Only this clarity will give rise to the will to take concrete actions to address the challenges the world is facing. Hence, the architectural education must, besides imparting knowledge, also endeavor to create opportunities for students to engage with real life issues, so that they can reflect on their role in creating a better world. Further, it is also important that they are empowered to make informed choices, which are more life-sustaining.
In this context, the role of IGDTUW as an all women institute is of strategic significance. It is a well established fact that since women are, by nature, life givers; they have an inbuilt belief in protection of life in all its diverse form and building peace, i.e. they are intrinsically pacifist. In an unsustainable and violent world, it is the women and children who suffer the most. Hence, it is important that the architecture course gives full play to women’s inherent capability as a protagonist of creating a peaceful world through the practice of sustainable architecture.
The vision statement of B.Arch course at IGDTUW may read as :
‘Development of the individual girl as a responsible member of peaceful, pluralist and inclusive society by learning to explore and practicing quality, sustainable form of architecture’
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