While working at PSA Design Studio, under the wing of Ar. Paramjit S Ahuja (two-time chairman of the Indian Institute of Architects - Nagpur Chapter), apart from architectural design, my role involved helping organise events and a major part of my stint was the 

'Limited Architectural Design Competition for Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur'.

organized as per Council of Architecture (CoA), Delhi, guidelines. Essentially, a 'limited' or 'closed' competition implies that designers participate by invitation, as opposed to an 'open' competition. 

In simple terms, the competition was floated to solicit the best design proposals for the new campus of National Law University, Nagpur. My work on this project spanned a full-time employment at PSADS and a freelance position with NLU-N. 

Refer to the timeline below: 

The Maharashtra National Law University of Nagpur sought to establish a permanent state-of-the-art campus at Waranga, Wardha, for which the Government of India sanctioned the required funding, under the chairmanship of the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra in July 2016.

The Chancellor and then Chief Justice of India, Hon'ble Shri Justice S A Bobde constituted an Infrastructure Development and Monitoring Committee (IDMC) to monitor the development of the new campus. 

In the first IDMC meeting in July 2016, the IDMC resolved to hold a Limited Architectural Design Competition. 

We had the beautiful experience of spending an evening in the presence of Hon'ble Shri Justice S A Bobde, Former Chief Justice of India. He reminded us of the heart of this project, the vision of building a Gurukul for future lawyers of the country. We discussed logic, law, philosophy, and Kant in his cozy backyard. :)

Once we had all the (mind-blowingly) detailed requirements for each corner of the campus, I started drafting sections of the competition brief, collecting reference photographs, international examples, and chapterizing the content to be bit by bit reviewed by PSA. 

 Right from minutely overseeing the design of every inch of every page, approving the right cover design with desired color scheme and theme, Selecting the printing and binding details, visiting the print and binding shops to supervise and finalize the final hardback copy of the brief - 

I completed the endeavor, handed over the brief, and
decided to give a sweet end to this chapter
to leave with incredible learnings.

NLU-N hired me as a freelance co-curator for the exhibitions, in co-operation with the Indian Institute of Architects - Nagpur Center (IIA-NC).

I worked with Ar. PSA again, along with Ar. Parikshit and Ar. Kshitij from IIA-NC.

On April 1, 2017, all the participants were invited for a site visit and a Q&A session, for which I handled the presentation and technical end, IDMC and Ar. PSA resolved the queries and received kind compliments for perhaps the best brief the architects had witnessed, and 5 team members from PSA DS as responsible stenographers (at the back). 

Seizing the golden opportunity of having 10 of the best architects of India together in a city, Ar. PSA and the IIA-NC organized an architectural panel discussion on the topic:

'Fetish for the Object' 

where the panelists and audience discussed the (in)famous, apparent, fetish of architects and historic starchitects, for objects or artistic physical forms.  

Now that we had the submitted deliverables, we had the quantity and sizes of the sheets and models to be displayed. 

The search for suitable venues began, and Chitnavis Centre designed by Ar. PSA himself was finalized. We started designing the display, Ar. Parikshit, Ar. Kshitij, and I. 

Eventually, we zeroed in on a simple layout with ample space to view the entries and move around the area with ease, ensuring convenience to both, the jurors and the public audience.