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Inherited Urbanism
Inherited Urbanism is a pre-thesis project studio facilitated in 2016 for Srishti Institute of Art Design & Technology. Our co-learning about different living contexts within Walled city of Bidar.
Concentration
Dates: 1 Jul – 4 Nov 2016
Cohort size: 14
Duration: 14 weeks
Place: Bidar, Bidar
Offered as: LLI offered
Micro-context(s): Walled City, Water Systems, Craft Practices Bidri, Dakkhani Art Literature
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Next wave of urbanization in India is in the smaller cities and towns. Many of these smaller urban conglomerates have retained tangible and intangible legacies from their pasts. This is an important asset to the communities and governments alike allowing these cities to mark their distinctiveness, attract tourists and inward investment and reimagine a historical urban narrative that feeds into the quality of life. ‘Inherited Urbanism’ (project) is set in this context to understand people, practices and the opportunities it offers to navigate through on-going urbanization. Our inquiry is in the walled city of Bidar, where the historic wall shares an interface with the built and socio-cultural urban quality of the present. It is amidst these ancient infrastructures, cultural markers and a diverse ecological setting the residents - the inheritors of Bidar - carry out their everyday practices. These associative values in the historic parts of Bidar are less understood.
Late Sri Anurag Tiwari, Deputy Commissioner of Bidar in 2016 giving directions to explore for our learners