Hybrid reveries locates itself within the Anglo-Indian community in Kerala, a hybridised product of colonisation. It focuses on the innately Indian stories they tell through native crafts and the nuanced domesticity that the stories shape into spatial form. Framed under the 2020 ruling that removed Anglo-Indian representation from parliament, a speculative response is formed that aims to instill cultural solidarity as a combative tool to spatial injustice. This solidarity is realised through notions of collective childhood memory, using familial oral histories to shape an architectural language through a reciprocity of fact and fiction.

An architectural prototype is proposed as a master plan for Kumbanad, a rural town facing patterns of modern migration, changing economic priorities and post-colonial degradation of rural modes of living. The plan takes form in three spatial archetypes: ‘The Colonial Ghost’ - an adaptive reuse of abandoned homes built for status rather than necessity, ‘The Aging Home’ - a care home fulfilling the needs of an aging population and ‘The Forgotten School’ - a nursery built around principles of native crafting and storytelling to validate rurality.