Author Archives: Siddharth Menon
(DE)CONSTRUCTING CONCRETE: MEANING & MATERIALITY IN POSTCOLONIAL INDIA
Below is the abstract and a link to my MA thesis (2018) in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder titled, “(De)Constructing Concrete: Meaning & Materiality in Postcolonial India.” Many thanks to my thesis advisor: Prof. Mara Goldman and committee members: Prof. Tim Oakes, Prof. Yaffa Truelove, and Prof. Shawhin Roudbari for their constructive […]
Humanitarian Engineering Symposium, MSU-Denver
Will be speaking at the Humanitarian Engineering Symposium, organized by the Humanitarian Engineering Club at Metropolitan State University (MSU) Denver. Details below: Title: “Of Mud and Modernity: Building with earth in Rural India” Date: Friday, April 20, 2018 Time: 2.35 pm Symposium Schedule
American Association of Geographers Preview- Student Talks
Four Geography graduate students will present a preview of the talks they will give at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting in New Orleans April 10-14, 2018: Sarah Tynen: State Territorialization through Bureaucratic Control: Authoritarian Governance at the Neighborhood Level in China Aaron Malone: Diaspora Bureaucracy? Formalizing emigrant engagement and the evolution of Mexico’s 3×1 Program Joseph […]
Yourstory.com Interview
https://yourstory.com/2018/02/siddharth-menon-sustainable-architecture/ Meet Siddharth Menon, who uses architecture to address socio-economic inequality, ecological and cultural degradation Hema Vaishnavi posted on 20th February 2018 Siddharth Menon, a travelling architect and geographer, works with the aim to provide contextual and contemporary design solutions in the rural hinterland. Siddharth Menon, who graduated from IES College of Architecture in Mumbai, veered […]
Dissent by Design, Environmental Design, CU-Boulder
Through Fall 2017, I was a Graduate Research Assistant for an NSF funded research project, titled “Engineering Dissent: Moving Political Engagement for Social Justice from the Vanguard into the Mainstream of the Engineering Profession.” This project was initiated at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Program in Environmental Design by Prof. Shawhin Roudbari and is a collaborative […]
Concrete & Boulder
This is a misguide assignment for GEOG 6742, a Cultural Geography Seminar by Professor Tim Oakes. The aim of the misguide assignment is to look at your place/landscape from a tourist gaze by a developing a cultural geography of practice in order to more fully understand the ways places/landscapes are represented and made. Some misguide […]
Himalayan Transformations
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Himalayan Materialities
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Himalayan Landscapes
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Siddharth Menon 