Work performed during MSCRP was ascribed to work packages (WPs). Here, we summarise each.
Work package 1_Management and Coordination
The Fellow conducted management and coordination of MSCRP with the supervisor and host to interrelate and coordinate activities, timetable, methods and instruments used, through milestones and deliverables, as well as quality assurance procedures.
Work package 2_Documentation Method: Analytical historical-operative approach
Archival research, and Site-based analysis and comparison of historical notions of privacy.
Deliverables: 1. Dissemination of preliminary results of architectural/urban survey on site in academic setting (seminar); 2. Submission of draft papers and book proposal to publishers.
Work package 3_Theory development
Documentation of indicators; investigation of the Eastern imprint of privacy in Denmark; and definition of the intellectual transfer from India.
Deliverables: The Fellow started a book draft and submitted final peer-reviewed articles that will cumulate the research.
PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING
Book chap 2025, The Material Legacies of Nordic Empire, Mednick, T and Pushaw, B (eds.), Duke University Press, UK
Article 2024/25, “Domestic space, race and gender in the eighteenth-century Danish home”, Journal for 18th Century Studies
Book 2024, A History of Privacy in Danish and Indian Architecture: Urbanism of Colonialism, Routledge, UK. (contract signed with publisher)
Book chap 2025, “Public shared places and private absent divides. Identity and Space of Colonial Urbanism”. The Routledge Companion to Art and Challenges to Empire, UK
PUBLICATIONS MADE
Grancho, N, Colonnese, F and Schaeverbeke, R (eds.), Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2024
Grancho, N, with Colonnese, F. and Schaeverbeke, R., Introduction, Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2024, ix-2
Grancho, N, Subaltern Drawings: Can Architecture, Urbanism and Fieldwork strike back?, Approaches to Drawing in Architectural and Urban Design. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2024, 220-242
Grancho, N, Hybridity as an appellation of twentieth-century Islamic built environment. Europe’s Islamic Legacy: 1900 to the Present. Brill & Nijhoff Publishers, 2023, 69-97
Grancho, N, Drawing the “colour line”: race, ethnicity and religion in Diu, Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, October 2022, 1-26
Work package 4_Training and complementary activities
Deliverables:
Weekly seminars at academic settings.
Pedagogical and supervision/tutoring courses.
Completion of training and pedagogical activities.
TEACHING AND ADVISING EXPERIENCE
The Fellow’s teaching at The Royal Danish Academy (KADK) included:
2021-2024 Master’s program in Spatial Design at the Institute of Architecture and Design, and supervising theses in Master Programme Spatial Design
2022-2024, Semester architectural critics of students work
2022, Invited lecturer of the PhD Course The Historical Interior
Invited critic at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA, Advanced Design Studio, “The Cloud is Material” 2022.
Work package 5 _Communication, Dissemination, Outreach Activities and Career Development Plan
Presentation and feedback to findings and conclusions and set up of outreach activities.
Participation by Invitation at International seminars and conferences.
Active participation in international conferences (IC).
Due to his work, the Fellow:
1. was invited to become an Affiliated Member of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill U, Canada, in 2024; a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Architecture, UMass-Amherst, USA, in 2024; and a Guest Professor and Researcher at KADK (2021-2024).
2. was awarded the prizes/awards: Samuel H. Kress Foundation in recognition of scholarly work for the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, USA, 2023; Grant from The Carlsberg Foundation to fund the International Conference; the Asian Dynamics Initiative prize, University of Copenhagen, for Short Term Scientific Mission in India, Prize for research, 2023; Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellow of the week, 2022.
3. authored and chaired 5 sessions at International conferences.
4. organised/coordinated the following scientific events: PhD Course The Historical Interior. KADK, November 2022, IC Privacy Matters. How Interiors Make and Break our Cities, PRIVACY and KADK, April 2023. (
https://royaldanishacademy.com/en/calendar/privacy-matters-how-interiors-make-and-break-our-cities(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)) IC Privacy and Colonialism, PRIVACY, October 2022; Research Seminar “The effigial tombs of Pedro I and Inês de Castro at Alcobaça (c. 1360-67) from private biography to public display.” PRIVACY, May 2022.
