Empirical Explorations

'Self-o-Scope': Why We Need to Look Within before we peep out of our Skin

As snowflakes, do we fall?

Or as saplings do we rise?

We could be nothing at all

If not who we are in our own eyes.

The Self-o-Scope is a combination of a microscope, a telescope and a kaleidoscope which will be elaborated upon as an exercise to understand how one’s own mind and creativity works; towards an attempt to understand and produce rooted yet sublime architecture in 21st century.

Keywords: Self-assessment, Identity, Self, Architecture, Ethics, THANIMA.


Narayana, A., 2017, Self-o-Scope: Why We Need to Look Within before we peep out of our Skin, pages 162-169, Proceedings of Thanima 02 - International Conference of Design Pedagogy and Contextual Aesthetics, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.


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