Theme: Women in Architecture
In accordance with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 5 that talks of gender equality
Date: 19th April 2023;
Timing: 10.30am to 1.30pm;
Venue: Exhibition Hall + Library Seminar Hall
Faculty co-ordinators: Ar. Sanjeev K, Ar. Pooja Ugrani, Ar. Mahima, Ar. Gopi
Students from 2nd, 4th, 6th and 10th Semesters attended the event.

In accordance with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 5 that plans to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, the Faculty of Planning, Architecture and Design, REVA University organized its annual event, REVA Rachana with the theme of Women in Architecture. 
About the Event: REVA RACAHANA is one of the best practices at REVA University school of Architecture from the past academic years starting from 2017, where in a well curated exhibition of Students' works is displayed. An expert talk by Ar. Meeta Jain was organized for the students and faculty of RUSOA on 19th April 2023. 
Inaugration: The event began with the inauguration of the Exhibition Hall, where the exceptional work of our talented students was showcased, by the Keynote speaker Ar. Meeta Jain, in the presence of our Director, faculty members and students. She was then escorted to the Library Seminar Hall for the expert talk. 
About the Guest speaker and her firm:  
Meeta Jain is an alumnus of CEPT Ahmedabad from 1990 batch, a gold medalist, and a resident of students exchange program at ETH Zurich in 1994. Her early prominent mentors have been, Prof. R.J. Vasavada, Prof, Kurula Varkey & Prof. Neelakanth Chhaya. Initial years of her training as fresh architect, she honed her design and technical skills, working with notable architects like Mr. Ashok Lall, Gurjit Singh Matharoo and Swiss architect Mr. Georg Leuzinger.
She established her design studio in 2000 in Bangalore. Her initial projects were artists’ spaces, and she came to be known as artist’s architect. Notable amongst her earliest   work is the organic making of the international art residency hub 1Shanthi Road ART Residency, that has grown to be a unique institution, and a rare kind of home to Bangalore city, and over years, one that has received many many accolades. Her firm grew to take on range of expertise that extends from architecture, interiors, landscape to site planning for projects of a larger scale.
Her philosophy is to create built environments that may be inanimate but are firmly rooted in their context and have a special living quality to them. In her projects she strives to push the programme and strive to design spaces for an “extended social ecology” wherever possible, by forming spaces that are open-ended, and of multiple use in nature. It’s her vision to bring people together in as many ways and make attempt to create “good interface spaces between the project and outside world. When it comes to making, Meeta’s all consuming passion lies in finer detailing of a building and crafting a specific visual language for each project., as well to it perfect technical soundness,
The USP of her design studio is the wide spectrum of scale the firm has delivered. Employing multiple collaborations, right from product design scale on one hand to the city scale on another, the firm has done many notable award-winning projects. Currently her firm is working on large public space government project, a Cultural Park in royal centre of Mysore location @ Dusshera Exhibition Grounds. Some of her present institutional architectural projects are in the heritage cities of Varanasi and Hampi.
She works with a team of 6 to 8 designers in her studio. Vagish Naganur, a landscape architect also an alumnus of CEPT is a resident consultant for MJA. Apart from the private clientele projects, her studio is also active in the community sphere contributing to many public Art and Education projects that benefit the city as a whole. In 2009 she founded MapBee , a design collective  , which is driven to work for  ‘spaces for change’ that also became a way of working with different creative practitioners, bringing them under one umbrella  and to discover new ways of making spaces via temporary space gestures. So far MapBee has done projects in realm of ART in public space, education, waste recycling, mobile exhibitions, play spaces and dismantlable spaces.
The speaker gave a thought-provoking presentation. The different projects presented covered various aspects of design - about drawing from the past, culture and identity of a place and having a deep connection with nature, surroundings, and people. She also laid importance on the narrative and context of her residential projects. 

Outcome of the Event: 
• To display the architectural / academic works of the students in the Exhibition Hall 
• To gain visibility & attract new students for admissions through the Open house Exhibition.
• The current students of RUSOA absorbed the essence and significance of presentation and talk given by the Guest speaker, Ar Meeta Jain

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our Chancellor Dr P Shyama Raju sir, Vice Chancellor Dr Dhanamjaya sir, Dr Ramesh & the Management for the constant support and encouragement. We would like to thank our Director Prof. Vidya Srikanth for her immense support for organizing this event.