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Shade in the City
For urban designers and planners working in the Indian context, ‘shade’ must necessarily be a part of the design vocabulary. In order to design neighbourhoods within our cities, we need to understand how shade impacts people behaviour on our streets and public spaces. At the Everyday City Lab, we began a SHADE mapping project in August 2022. This film shares a few insights from this research.
The Social Life of Indian Public Spaces
This film is based on a research project conducted in 2019 that looked at how informal spaces of social interaction are created in Indian cities. Specifically, it looks at how the spaces around the chai (tea) vendors and paan (betel leaf) vendors in Ahmedabad become 'human activity nodes' at the neighbourhood level.
Peanut fair in Bangalore: Understanding Street as a Public space
This film looks at how the street becomes a predominant public space in an Indian city. It focuses on the Peanut fair (locally called the Kadlekai Parishe) that takes place for two days every year in Bangalore. We found that the peanut growers and vendors who come here from the surrounding villages use collective memory and social capital to mark and defend their territory during the Fair.
Architecture and how non-architects think
This film is based on the outcome from a course on 'ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-ARCHITECTS' offered as part of the Open course program at Azim Premji University, Bangalore. The open courses at APU are elective courses for students in the Masters programs in Development / Education / Public Policy & Governance. Course instructor: Kiran Keswani
Gandhi Bazaar in Bangalore
The changing nature of the spaces and the displays in a Street bazaar in India makes it a complex phenomenon that differs from formal retail environments. People come to Gandhi Bazaar to buy vegetables, fruits, flowers, banana leaves, silk sarees and puja items. It is a place to experience the culture of the city. At the Everyday City Lab, we have been doing research & teaching on Marketplaces for more than a decade now.
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