Season 2: Architecture X Media Studies
Ep. 28: Beyond Laudatory Texts, Soumya Dasgupta
This episode features a candid, critical conversation with Soumya Dasgupta on the intersection of architecture, media, and political economy in India and the West. The episode exposes the dominance of architects’ narratives, the absence of criticality, and the systemic inequalities within the profession. Soumya challenges the status quo, urging for uncomfortable but necessary dialogues about power, capital, and the future of architectural practice.
Guest: Soumya Dasgupta
Designation: Architectural Scholar
Bio: Soumya is a Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture (History and Theory) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. His scholarly interests include neoliberal developmentalism, digital technocracy, the Global South, and South Asia, and his Ph.D. dissertation broadly explores the contested systems of architectural production in the rapidly transforming context of 21st-century urban India. He has presented his research at academic conferences, including the SAH, ACSA, and IASTE, as well as Ph.D. symposiums at Georgia Tech, AA London, and UCLA.
He has been awarded the Humanities Research Institute Graduate Fellowship for 2023-24 and is a former recipient of the Illinois Distinguished Fellowship. He has received the Nicholson Fellowship to attend and earn a certificate from the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, for which reflections are noted here.
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