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13/12/2025

Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) returns to Goa for its landmark 10th edition from December 12-21, 2025, transforming the city into an all-embracing celebration of the arts.

In an exclusive video conversation, Sunil Kant Munjal, founder patron of Serendipity Arts Festival, speaks with Samta Nadeem, curatorial director of STIR, to unpack the festival’s vision of being a neutral, barrier-free platform where disciplines, communities and creative voices intersect.

As SAF expands with 35 curators and travels to 10 cities this year, Munjal reflects on why cultural patronage matters, what interdisciplinarity makes possible and how arts and creative expression is more important than ever. “... It’s about creating institutions that outlast all of us,” he said.

Video Team:
Creative Director: Ishika Paruthi
Production & Post Production: MS2 Entertainment
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Read More: https://bit.ly/4rTTbRN
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Serendipity Arts Festival | Serendipity Arts Foundation
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12/12/2025

Programme Announced!
ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026

From 9–11 January 2026, ADFF:STIR Mumbai returns to the NCPA Mumbai with its second and most ambitious edition to date.

This year’s programme brings together:
* 25+ international film screenings across architecture, design, cities and culture
* Jaquar Pavilion Park, curated by Aric Chen, featuring 10 architectural pavilions across the NCPA gardens
* ~log(ue), the public programme supported by JSW Group, with 50+ global voices across architecture, design, art, cinema and culture
* Culinary experiences powered by Gaggenau, exploring food as craft, performance and a cultural bridge
* Special Projects developed with long-standing cultural partners
* Performances, workshops, games and curated tours that activate the festival beyond the screen

ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026 is a multi-format, interdisciplinary cultural platform — built through collaboration with leading creatives, institutions, curators, practitioners and brands from India and across the world.

Click to get your passes: https://bit.ly/4q0STGO
Be the festival’s guest at Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai at special rates.
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JSW Group | Jaquar India | Hans Ulrich Obrist

11/12/2025

Tickets live now!
ADFF:STIR Mumbai returns to the National Centre for the Performing Arts from 9-11 January, 2026 for its second edition.

Over three days, the festival brings a diverse selection of films dedicated to Architecture, Design and Art- with a three-day programme of screenings, conversations, pavilions and creative encounters that expand into new themes, ideas, and ways of looking at the relationship between the built world, people and the planet.

Look out for:
* 25+ Film screenings
* 10 Pavilions
* 30+ Speakers
* Special Projects
* Performances, Workshops, Tours and More

Know more about the festival on STIRworld.com and get your passes on BOOKMYSHOW: https://bit.ly/4q0STGO
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Jaquar India | Hans Ulrich Obrist

On a steep Quito hillside, Al Borde transforms raw eucalyptus, handmade bricks and artisanal craft into a house that bre...
11/12/2025

On a steep Quito hillside, Al Borde transforms raw eucalyptus, handmade bricks and artisanal craft into a house that breathes with its environment. Casa La Vicentina balances openness, community and climate-conscious design, where terraces, courtyards and timber structures capture light, air and views across the city.

More than a home, it’s a living prototype for resilient, low-impact architecture in equatorial cities – where sustainability, local materials and human skill converge.

Read more: https://bit.ly/492IRiS
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Images: ©️JAG Studio, ©️Al Borde
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10/12/2025

In Dowry of the Soul, Gulnur Mukazhanova turns textiles into portals – felt, fabric and colour holding stories shaped by Soviet legacies, ancestral traditions and personal heritage. With curator Wang Weiwei, the works trace long-standing exchanges between Central Asia and China, where motifs and materials travel across borders.

On view from November 14, 2025 – March 1, 2026 at CHAT, Hong Kong, the exhibition brings together paintings, videos, textiles and collaborative felt structures, revealing how material labour holds memory and offering craft as both archive and ongoing inheritance.

Read more: https://bit.ly/48u0GqW
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Images: Courtesy of CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong
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10/12/2025

Design Mumbai 2025 wrapped its second edition on a strong note. Over four days at Jio World Garden, the fair drew global brands, emerging studios, material innovators and an engaged crowd across the exhibition, culinary pop-ups and an expanded slate of special features.

This year’s edition carried notable momentum, with immersive installations, material-led showcases and new programming energising the fair. Across 14 talks, the Design Mumbai Exchange opened conversations on sustainability, craft, colour, collaboration and the future of design – reinforcing a growing ecosystem where India’s creative energy meets the global stage.
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Images: Courtesy of Design Mumbai
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08/12/2025


East India steps into a renewed era of design.
Design Milestone 02 brings together visionaries, innovators and the country’s finest brands for an immersive three-day showcase of ideas, materials, craft and conversations that redefine the design landscape.

A Media Milestone Initiative
12-14 December 2025
Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan, Kolkata
11 am - 7 pm

Renoirr homes | INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS(IIID)

A dynamic, floating timber canopy adorns the Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault Library, part of a restoration ini...
08/12/2025

A dynamic, floating timber canopy adorns the Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault Library, part of a restoration initiative by Jakob+MacFarlane. Part shelter, part symbol of renewal, the major intervention by the French architects—dubbed The Canopy—is shaped like a tree, breathing new life into the neglected brutalist structure.

The renovation by the studio is rooted in knowledge yet reaching outward, with the library reimagined as a cultural commons, where architecture softens, communities converge, and a new rhythm returns to the urban fabric.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4iFvdFw
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Images: Ronald Halbe, Jakob+MacFarlane
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07/12/2025

Set along a terraced ridge in rural Nashik, the Hiwali School by PK_iNCEPTiON transforms a narrow ridge into an expansive landscape of learning. Foldable doors double as blackboards, daylight slips through wind-aligned blocks, and every stone surface becomes writable.

Children here create their own classrooms across steps, nodes and courtyards, moving freely through a campus shaped by terrain and curiosity. The result is an ever evolving architecture – open, inclusive and designed to let learning unfold on its own terms.

Read more: https://bit.ly/48l5m2k
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Images: Courtesy of Pranit Bora Studio, PK_iNCEPTiON
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STIR pays tribute to the prolific architectural figure that was Frank O. Gehry (1929-2025) on his passing, celebrating a...
06/12/2025

STIR pays tribute to the prolific architectural figure that was Frank O. Gehry (1929-2025) on his passing, celebrating an architectural legacy firmly situated between context-defying and context-defining.

The Canadian and American architect and designer seldom stuck to widely accepted norms in building. Several of his most iconic structures around the world mirror that defiance, establishing what is now widely seen as his signature style—swirling, jagged edifices in steel, glass, titanium and similar other concoctions. Gehry’s sculptural, deconstructivist forms cemented him amongst the most formidable names in defining an unfixed language in contemporary architecture, winning him several accolades, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize. While some of his works and public opinions might remain controversial—always audacious, but never conventional—he approached architecture with a rare and refreshing boldness, unapologetic in his second-to-none “crumpled paper” approach to form-making.

In sequence:
Frank Gehry Portrait, Rohit Chawla
Guggenheim Bilbao, Mikel Arrazola, Wikimedia Commons
Luma Towers, Atelier Vincent Hecht
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Pedro Szekely, Wikimedia Commons
Dancing House, Danny Alexander Lettkemann, Wikimedia Commons
Frank and Berta Gehry Residence, Alex Fradkin
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Steve Hall ©️ Hall + Merrick Photographers
Lou Ruvo Center For Brain Health Las Vegas, O Palsson, Wikimedia Commons

Frank Gehry | Museo Guggenheim Bilbao | LA Phil | Nationale-Nederlanden | LUMA Arles | Philadelphia Art Museum |

PROMETHEUSPrometheus is the patron of impossible gifts—fire stolen, form kindled, civilisation sparked, consequence defe...
05/12/2025

PROMETHEUS

Prometheus is the patron of impossible gifts—fire stolen, form kindled, civilisation sparked, consequence deferred: a brink between ambition and responsibility, between what we shape and what we tend to or abandon. Creation begins in longing; its consequences begin thereafter. This week, that Promethean charge takes different forms.

But fire does not distinguish between illumination and ruin. To create is to shoulder consequence; to ignite is to tend. What we set alight will always ask us what we meant, or leave scars that refuse to fade.

—> The new Hiwali School by PK_iNCEPTiON posits an erudite architecture of possibility

—> ‘It’s Alive!’: The enduring vitality of Frankenstein and his ‘monster’

—> Calder Gardens and the quiet power of landscape-driven design

—> Contextual modernisms: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle

—> Blood, breath and other ordeals: How Dmitry Morozov, aka ::vtol::, performs fragility in jest

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