Poché is a platform that encourages cross-disciplinary conversations through design studio-based exercises. The platform, an initiative by Sudipto Ghosh and Riyaz Tayyibji, wishes to traverse the many layers of grey that exist between two opposing positions. Like its name, Poché—the act of blackening parts of an architectural drawing to allow an aspect of it to emerge clearly—the platform aspires to understand that which remains concealed in the interstitial space between the visible and invisible.
Our broad agenda is as follows:
-To work in the interstices of disciplinary silos
-To have conversations situated in the context of the Global South.
-To broaden design thinking and blur boundaries between the built and the unbuilt.
-To allow content to become as accessible as possible through decentralising, decolonising and contextualising knowledge.
With time the curators, editors, and moderators of Poché will ensure that all the content generated on the platform will be semantically interlinked and accessible as a network of coherent, interrelated knowledge.
The strategy for development of content on the platform has emerged out of several conversations with mentors and advisors. Poché would like to acknowledge the advice and contribution of these generous and insightful minds:
