Slow Disturbances: Terracotta Making Along the Rivers of South India

Priya Joseph is an architect, writer, educator. She holds a PhD in art and design and teaches at Srishti Manipal Institute. Her work focuses on material culture and design, history and theory of architecture, especially focused on material-tectonics, gender-ecology-design, urbanism and using drawing as a method of not just representation but also reflection. She is the co-founder of The Living Studio Architects which has designed numerous buildings in earth, in South India.

Her recent book is titled, ‘Brick Architecture Craft in Nineteenth Century South India: Reading Buildings as Archives’, published by Routledge, London. She has written for Economic and Political Weekly, Domus, Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review, and UNESCO Sahapedia among others. Her current work looks at the 19th century terracotta tile factories on the Malabar Coast and their connection to the fragile ecology of the coast.