MCR: Master’s in Conservation and Regeneration

The current Indian context is extremely favorable for conservation profession with growing interest and investment from CSRs, municipal corporations, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Housing Affairs, and others. The MCR curriculum acknowledges the growing industry and emphasizes aesthetics of repair, technical knowledge of integrating services into historic structures, sensitivity to user experience, fluency with contemporary materials, and the ability to develop and advocate for innovative solutions while addressing challenges of historic built environments.

Foregrounding its responsibility to the emerging realities of climate urgency, MCR treats conservation as primarily an ecological act of radical design, allowing for creative and responsible reinterpretations of historical structures which can integrate developmental pressures around. MCR expands its focus from monuments to also include the unlisted, abandoned, and mundane buildings and propose contemporization. This includes projects of extension, aspirational upgradation; service retrofits; and material and structural repairs.

Students are trained to move from intuition to informed decision-making processes and roles, to take leadership and advocacy roles, to adapt and innovate artisanal building crafts, to invent ways of upgrading traditional knowledge systems. It promotes effective multidisciplinary collaboration with structural engineers, historians, technocrats, policy makers, housing experts, landscape architects. It is committed to cultivating confidence and responsibility in its graduates as professionals in the field of architectural conservation. MCR graduates are equipped to be confident professionals, ready to take on roles in conservation and architectural offices, provide independent consultancy to private and public sector for conservation, provide research-based solutions to think-tanks, and undertake academic roles.