CNBC-TV18: ‘Can Delhi afford cutting of trees?’ with Manit Rastogi

Manit Rastogi speaks to CNBC-TV18 over the plan to fell over 16,500 trees in New Delhi for re-development of accommodations in seven neighborhoods.  Watch as he shares his views over the mindless urban planning in our cities.

NDTV Prime: India’s Mounting Garbage Problem with Manit Rastogi

How India can address the problems of solid waste management?Currently, India generates about 62 million tonnes of solid waste annually and only about 30% or 12 million tonnes gets treated and what’s worse, India’s solid waste output is expected to rise by 250% to 165 million tonnes by 2030.

NDTV Prime: The Realty Debate with Manit Rastogi

The Impact Of NGT Orders Against Developers: Are NGT orders against developers pushing the real estate sector into a chaos? Environmental clearances have always been the sore point of the developers.

Livability | ADAPT

Architecture is often relatively permanent, while the way humans inhabit a space is constantly changing. Livability then, has to be able to transcend from what you are, what you have been, to what you aspire to be and the space has to transform as per that need.

Affordability Part II | ADAPT

Thinking from first principles is key to reducing resource requirement. Strip down requirements of material, structure, space to only that which is truly essential.

Affordability Equals Resources Optimization | ADAPT

Affordability is largely misunderstood…. it does not mean cheap. It means how one symbiotically manages resource so that it is available to a lot more people. Nature is a perfect example… nothing is wasted.

Sustainability for Maximum Impact |ADAPT

Sustainability is not a layer! If I were to design anything from the scale of a molecule to the universe, from a small product to a large system, and if I had no resource, where would I begin?

Thinking About Thinking | ADAPT

How do you consciously create a path to convert the data around us to information, to knowledge, to wisdom such that you can use it to maximum effect?

Important Questions All Good Design Must Answer Today |ADAPT

"Addressing, questions of Sustainability, Affordability, Identity and Livability provide a comprehensive solution that will contribute to building a brand identity for the Indian Design industry. "

Deconstructing Iconicism | ADAPT

Iconicism is often understood as a flamboyant piece of structural gymnastics. The truth is that it embraces a much wider definition that is unique for its context and purpose.

Learning about Learning | ADAPT

"Architecture and Design are not a teaching based profession but a learning based one."- Manit Rastogi, Founder Partner, Morphogenesis

The Opportunities we have Today (2016) | ADAPT

How can we use the wisdom of the past and the technology of today to create a vision of the future? #MorphogenesisADAPTS #Architecture #DesignCompetition

CNBC TV18: Smart Cities Mission

Manit Rastogi, Shailesh Pathak, NSN Murty, Karuna Gopalan with Manisha Natarajan on CNBC-TV18, discuss the 60 smart cities under Prime Minister Modi's "Smart cities mission".

Morphogenesis. Flashback 2015

As 2015 comes to an end, we cherish the memories of the year gone by, entering 2016 with high spirits. See you all in 2016. Happy New Year 2016! #morphogenesisflashback2015

Morphogenesis Unplugged: Peek into our studio

Here is a quick tour of Morphogenesis studio‬ through the eyes of our 'July 2015' inductees.

NDTV Good Times- Living green: Country’s Top Eco-Friendly Designs, 2015

Sonali Rastogi in an exclusive interview with NDTV Good Times on sustainability and innovation in design.

Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur

The Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur is a campus which by virtue of its design is geared towards creating an environmentally responsive passive habitat. The institute creates interactive spaces for a highly creative student body to work in multifunctional zones which blend the indoors with the outdoors seamlessly. The radical architecture of the institute emerges from a fusion of the rich traditional building knowledge bank and cutting edge contemporary architecture.

CNN, Lessons to be learnt from Mughal Architecture

How can Mughal architecture teach us to build low-cost green buildings? For those who missed it, CNN interviewed Manit Rastogi  in 2013.  He explains how a good green building is not only cheaper to run but also cheaper to build.

Delhi Nullahs: An Initiative by Morphogenesis

The Proposal: To use Delhi's neglected Nullah network to fundamentally transform the city. The nullah network is 350km long, contiguous and criss-crosses the national capital. Currently, the nullahs are just unhygienic drains that are seen as a problem by the citizens of Delhi - they smell, breed mosquitoes, pollute the Yamuna and so on. However, a relatively small investment can turn the nullahs into a valuable asset for the common citizen

Delhi Art Gallery New Delhi, September 2011

The Delhi Art Gallery is an endeavour to create a simplistic space to retail the best of contemporary art in India, while positioning itself in the new Indian Contemporary Art Retail Paradigm. The architecture aims to generate a new genre of art retail; a calm and introspective retail store conducive to the appreciation of art in a gallery-like environment for the art aficionado looking to invest money in these prized possessions.

TEDx Talk: Wisdom- That’s the idea, Feb 2014

Manit Rastogi delivers a talk on a topic he is intensely passionate about- 'The Architecture of Sustainability'.

Design Leadership Summit, November 2014

Sonali Rastogi speaks at the creatively charged  Design Leadership Summit in New York City along with an eclectic mix of thinkers, innovators and creative minds like author Fran Lebowitz and architectural photographer Iwan Baan, to explore design issues and innovations, present and future. Hosted by the UN Assistant Secretary General Michael Adlerstein, the event took place at the United Nations.

Wallpaper.com, Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur

Short film by Wallpaper magazine as part of the Wallpaper  Video: Talent Search. The film looks at the sustainable design techniques used at  Pearl Academy of Fashion in Jaipur.