The Kurula Varkey Design Forum is an international student led forum organised at CEPT University, India. Since its inception in 2000, the forum has strived to critically question the discipline of architecture and its manifestations at the given time through student projects as take-off points. We invite undergraduate student projects from over 100 architecture schools across South Asia, of which a few are selected as generators of the discourse. Over the years, KVDF has had panelists like B.V. Doshi, Juhani Pallasmaa, Suhasini Ayer, Tatiana Bilbao, Gautam Bhan, Kevin Low, Jeremy Till, and more.
This year, the forum aims to discuss the networks within which the profession operates. With a multitude of entities, agencies, and stakeholders affecting and getting affected by the design of the built environment, it becomes pertinent for the profession to look into the '(Inter) Dependencies' that bind them together.
