{"id":260591,"date":"2026-02-04T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/event\/phd-defense-itineraries-of-residue\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:14:42","slug":"phd-defense-itineraries-of-residue","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/en\/event\/phd-defense-itineraries-of-residue\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Defense: Itineraries of Residue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in Didakteket for Asha Sumra&#8217;s PhD Defense. <a href=\"https:\/\/aarch-dk.zoom.us\/j\/61758468291\">You can also watch via Zoom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>About the project<\/h5>\n<p>Materials make architecture, but there is frequently a disjuncture between the production of materials and the construction of architecture. This project investigates this separation through a specific building material: the Mangalore tile.<\/p>\n<p>On 26 July 1862, Basel Missionary engineer George Plebst requested permission to fabricate an iron mould in Europe. He intended to carry the mould to the mission field to begin pro\u00adduction of interlocking clay roof tiles in South India. The product of this endeavour, the Basel Mission tile, contributed to development of the Mangalore tile, a roofing product used throughout India and the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Using archival work, fieldwork and a background of practical en\u00adgagement with tile factories, Itineraries of Residue shifts focus away from considering the tile as an isolated unit of construction to the construction of the material itself. Journeying across France, Germany and Switzerland to South India and the Indian Ocean, the project finds that the Mangalore tile was not one but one of many tiles, each speaking of commonality in production and multiplic\u00adity in material, place and identity. This reveals how a product of South Indian resources and a \u2018civilising mission\u2019 embodies a drainage imagination, a building system and a system of beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Distinguishing between remnant and residue, the thesis applies conceptions of the re\u00admainder from the Vedas, Jacques Derrida\u2019s essay Reste (2002) and Charles Malamoud\u2019s book Cooking the World (1989) to interpret tangible and intangible residue through the tile within cyclical processes, identifying the \u2018Cascades of Remainders\u2019 (Malamoud 1989; Derrida 2002; DeArmitt 2016) as a way in which residue holds potential as the foundational force for cycles of creative actions, constructing environments and producing knowledge.<\/p>\n<h5>Programme<\/h5>\n<p>13:10 Lecture \/ Asha Sumra, PhD Fellow, Cand.arch., Aarhus School of Architecture<\/p>\n<p>13:55 Examination \/ Professor, Katie Lloyd Thomas, Newcastle University<\/p>\n<p>14:25 Break<\/p>\n<p>14:35 Examination \/ Professor, Kazi Khaleef Ashraf, Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscape and Settlements<\/p>\n<p>15:05 Examination \/ Associate Professor, Jonathan Foote, Aarhus School of Architecture<\/p>\n<p>15:35 Contributions from the auditorium<\/p>\n<p>15:50 Closing \/ Claus Peder Pedersen, Head of PhD School<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 afterwards, drinks and snacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":259386,"template":"","eventkategori":[1939,1942,1962],"class_list":["post-260591","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","eventkategori-ekstern-kalender-en","eventkategori-event-en","eventkategori-forelaesning-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PhD Defense: Itineraries of Residue - Aarhus School of Architecture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/en\/event\/phd-defense-itineraries-of-residue\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PhD Defense: Itineraries of Residue - Aarhus School of Architecture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Join us in Didakteket for Asha Sumra&#8217;s PhD Defense. 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