Satprem is the founder of the Earth Institute in Auroville and he will soon complete twenty one years in Auroville. He talks about his experience in Architecture and what is happening in the Earth centre, which has been a pioneer in creating sustainable,low cost and Eco-friendly building methods. Currently there is a workshop where architects from around the world have come together to participate and learn the methods. The participants talk about the workshop, about their time in Auroville and their plans to take what they have learned in Auroville back to their home countries. Read more

His name is spoken Oigen in German or Eugene in English, as he explains it. He lives in Courage community which he believes is one of the best communities in Auroville in terms of equal space for all and for its architectural values. The interview touches various pitches from what attracted him to India to what he likes and dislikes about Auroville and its present system in a very frank style. He talks about his proposals and interests in the town planning and administration system of Auroville, his relationship with the people in Auroville and much more.

On 15th of March in Town Hall was inaugurated massive exhibition of planning resource. The first part of exhibition was named Galaxy Planning and Roger Anger. Lalit explained that the exhibition itself was great team work of many in a short span of time, and everybody contributed in more then one way to it. The exhibition is consistent from many panels of drawings, sketches, scanned photos...and it will be open until 15th of April. Read more

On the16th February of 2010 there had been a presentation in Town Hall, held by the acknowledged architects Dean D’ Cruz from Goa and Ms. Mette from Denmark. With the aim to share their work in the field of architecture and planning w ith the Aurovillians, Dean`s presentation included his involvement with the preparation of the Goa Regional Plan. Mette Lange, an architect who has her base both in Denmark and Goa, works with a few other Danish architects and engineers on a project to create sustainable modular housing for India. The presentations were followed by an interactional part with the audience, including some discussions.

Presented by l'Avenir d'Auroville: an 'Open Meeting' at Town Hall Conference Room, 10 a.m. - 12 noon Friday 4 December 2009. Topic: Regional Planning Presented by Prashant, Coordinator for Regional Planning.L'Avenir members present: Sauro, Lalit, Pino,Toby, Tine and approximately 20 Aurovilians. L'Avenir d'Auroville has expressed its willingness and thanks to make use of AurovilleRadio's offer to record and broadcast its 'Open Friday' meetings. The 10 a.m. timing of these Friday meetings does not, unfortunately, allow but a handful of participants, as that time of day finds most people at work...

“One thing is very important: the 12 gardens around the Matrimandir...This is gonna be a  great work when the vision comes to manifest this gardens.” disait Narad. Après le Matrimandir, voici venu le temps des jardins. Une nouvelle équipe de paysagistes c'est formée il y a trois ans, dont Marie que nous avons interviewée lors d'une ballade dans les jardins du Matrimandir. Elle nous raconte ses débuts avec les travailleurs tamouls mais surtout sa rencontre avec Maurizio et Marc et la réalisation des jardins Sat (Existence) Chit (Conscience) Ananda (Félicité). Pour plus d'information vous pouvez lire l'article paru dans AV Today ici ou bien

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Piero and Gloria are a married couple of architects from Italy who have been in Auroville since the beginning having arrived in March 1968. They talk about the manner in which they invest their constructions with beauty as one of the principle manifestations and evidence of the divine. They discuss how they manage to balance this with being sustainable, working to budget and with the local availability of resources. Finally, they talk about their work in the building of aurovillian schools and how they have tried to create classrooms that can accommodate the unique style of Aurovillian teaching techniques.