Our understandings of cities often veer between the apocalyptic and the celebratory. The space between these two binaries is occupied by a wide variety of emancipatory processes through which cities are lived and experienced by their varied citizens.
Starting from an exhibition of an extant city glossary of the city of Gurgaon in India, participants are invited to build glossaries of their own as a way of deepening their personal processes of thinking about their cities. Combining a dynamic course of study that develops over time with extensive fieldwork of both place and self, these new glossaries will serve as interactive pedagogical tools for autodidacts—a process of opening up the many dimensions of city-making.
RUPALI GUPTE AND PRASAD SHETTY are architects and urbanists based in Mumbai. They run the multidisciplinary practice BARDStudio and are co-founders of the School of Environment and Architecture. Their work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, curation, storytelling, teaching, conversations, walks and spatial interventions.
RUPALI GUPTE AND PRASAD SHETTY are architects and urbanists based in Mumbai. They run the multidisciplinary practice BARDStudio and are co-founders of the School of Environment and Architecture. Their work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, curation, storytelling, teaching, conversations, walks and spatial interventions.