IDS' monthly ‘Design Celebration’: Award winning architect Monica Kamath interacts with students
Mangaluru: The Indian Design School hosted its monthly ‘Design Celebration’ on Thursday, 25th November 2021 where award-winning, celebrated architects and interior designers across the country are invited for conducting talks on design, projects, and professional practice.
“It serves as a platform where exchange of ideas and knowledge takes place to inspire young and creative minds to achieve excellence. The talk is generally followed by the presentation of the event sponsors” a press statement from the IDS stated.
Ar. Monica Kamath was the guest speaker, during the event along with Aaskin Technologies as the industry partner. Ar. Monica Kamath is an award-winning practicing architect and interior designer. She is the founder and one of the partners of 2PKM Architects and a member of COA and AIIA.
“Her firm has been at the forefront in providing innovative and pragmatic architectural and interior design solutions in various parts of South India. With over 25 years of experience in the field, she has worked in various architectural firms and interior firms in Bangalore, Mumbai, and Mangalore. Currently, she is involved in the design and implementation of interior and renovation projects,” the press statement added.
The theme of the event was “Functional design in architecture and interiors”, where Ar. Monica presented some of her best projects, explaining the design process from concept to execution, and the challenges behind each project to make it cost-effective, highly functional, and with great aesthetic appeal. The talk provided the students with an in-depth understanding of materials, budget and site constraints, and construction management. A question-answer session was conducted at the end of the talk which gave the students further clarity on finer details of design.
The design talk was followed by the presentation of Aaskin Technologies, who gave detailed information on several of the products offered by the company to architects and interior designers. Aaskin Technologies is a group of young engineers from South India, focusing mainly on green energy solutions, embedded products, and automation platforms. Aaskin displayed physical samples of different types of smart and secure home solutions, home automation, live Surveillance, gate & shutter control, etc., and explained the mechanisms and the details of each by means of practical and hands-on approach – the core value of IDS.
The event concluded with Ar. Monica Kamath and Aaskin Technologies being awarded the certificate of appreciation by the Chairman – Ar. Mohammed Nissar, the Director – Dr. Nafeesa Shirin and the Principal – Ar. Ramnath Nayak of Indian Design School.
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Efforts on to bring Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna back to India: Home Minister
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Friday said efforts are on to bring Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexual abuse against women, back to India.
He also asserted that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case was functioning efficiently.
The 33-year-old Prajwal, who is the grandson of JD(S) patriarch and former PM H D Deve Gowda, is facing charges of multiple instances of sexually abusing women.
The scandal has raised a political storm with the ruling Congress and BJP-JD(S) engaged in a slugfest.
Prajwal reportedly left for Germany on April 27 and is still at large.
He was BJP-JD(S) alliance's candidate from Hassan Lok Sabha segment, which went to polls in the first phase on April 26.
"Procedures are on, until we secure him, bring him back here and take action in accordance with law, they will continue. We will neither slow it nor stop it," Parameshwara told reporters on questions about the Interpol's Blue Corner Notice that was issued against Prajwal.
On BJP alleging that the government was "responsible" for Prajwal's "escape" from the country, the Minister said, "They will say it, they have to say such things. They cannot say the government is doing a good job. But we have a responsibility as a government. Such incidents cannot be taken lightly. We will do our job."
Accusing the Congress government of trying to tarnish the reputation of Deve Gowda's family instead of ensuring justice to victims of alleged sex videos scandal case involving Prajwal, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy had recently alleged that every bit of information on the investigation is being sent to a Congress MLA of Mandya district, but not the Home Minister.
Reacting to this, Parameshwara said: "Kumaraswamy is also well aware, several things we cannot bring to the public domain, because the investigation is on. Who will brief the Mandya MLA? Making such allegations is easy. We all have responsibility and we are functioning with responsibility, and we are not under any compulsions."
"I want to tell him (Kumaraswamy) that SIT is working efficiently, and whatever they have to brief me or the Chief Minister, they will brief. Let there be no doubts about it," he said.
