[Reader-list] [Announcements] SYMPOSIUM, 19-26 July 2003

Tue Jul 15 01:23:07 IST 2003

Dear Friends:

Please circulate this announcement as widely as possible to
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS in Mumbai.

You are cordially invited to the PUKAR MONSOON SYMPOSIUM, a week-long
series of panel discussions, film screenings, and presentations by
students and researchers on water and the city. The PUKAR Monsoon is
an annual series of occassional lectures, workshops and pedagogic
activities organised from May to August every year, in which
undergraduate college students address a specific theme through a
variety of creative approaches to documentation and education of
urban life. The aim of PUKAR Monsoon 2003 has been to facilitate
debate and reflection, encourage artistic, intellectual and creative
expression, and develop hands-on skills in documenting the political
and cultural implications of the many connections between cities and
water.

Water as substance and as medium has been central to urban
development throughout human history. In Mumbai, as in many other
world cities, the modern urban experience is definitively connected
to the city's geographical form as island, and its location on the
coastline. In the context of globalisation, other dimensions of
water, and of the relationship between cities and water are becoming
increasingly visible and contested in the public arena -- notably,
the privatisation of water resources and the infrastructural networks
delivering water.

PUKAR Monsoon 2003 began with the DOC-SHOP -- an eight-day student
workshop for students held from 19-27 May 2003 -- and continues with
pedagogic activities in undergraduate colleges throughout Mumbai in
July and August 2003, when colleges open. For more information,
contact Rahul Srivastava or Shekhar Krishnan at 2207 7779,
<mailto:monsoon at pukar.org.in>, or visit
http://www.pukar.org.in/doc-shop/. See below for the complete
schedule of activities, for which we encourage students, teachers,
and the public to attend and participate.

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P U K A R   M O N S O O N   S Y M P O S I U M :   " O n   C i t i e s
,   O n   W a t e r "

Dates:
19-26 JULY 2003

Times:
Afternoons and Evenings

At:
PUKAR
c/o Aragon Services
4th Floor, Kitab Mahal
Dr Dadabhai Naoroji Road
Mumbai 400001

Kitab Mahal is next to New Excelsior Cinema, and is near VT Station.
Entrance to Kitab Mahal is from the New Book Company on Dadabhai
Naoroji Road.

S A T U R D A Y   1 9   J U L Y   2 0 0 3

18.00-18.15	PUKAR Monsoon 2003 -- "On Cities, On Water" : INTRODUCTION

		RAHUL SRIVASTAVA
		Director, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action
& Research), Mumbai

18.15-20.15	Water Supply to Poor Areas: PANEL DISCUSSION

		MEERA BAPAT
		Independent Researcher, Pune

		DAVID SATTHERTHWAITE
		Editor, Environment and Urbanisation, London, U.K.
		Intl Institute for Environment and Development
(IIED), London, U.K.

		INDU AGARWAL
		SPARC (Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres), Mumbai

M O N D A Y   2 1   J U L Y   2 0 0 3

17.00-18.00	FILM: "Spring" (Valdas Navasaitis, 19 minutes, 1997)

This silent documentary languidly  glides upon an aquatic landscape,
which much resembles a painting, and tries to  understand the strange
and unusual place, Valteris, the main character lives in.  Valteris
lives in the region of Klaipeda in Lithuania. Every year when the
snow  begins to melt, his house and the surrounding fields are
flooded. Valteris lives  to the rhythm of this spring flood; it is a
part of his life.

18.00-19.30	FILM: "Aral: Sea of Thirst" (Jean Afanassieff, 52
minutes, 1999)

The Aral Sea has dried up. The 'Big Blue Mirror'of the Kazakhs is now
a desert of sand and grasses haunted by the rusting hulls of fishing
boats. Fed by two major rivers, the Syr-Dia and Amou-Daria, most of
the water of the inland sea of Central Asia was diverted to irrigate
cotton and rice fields. Today the intensive crops which were
programmed by the Soviets in the 50s have all disappeared and, apart
from the little that is left of the inexhaustible resources of the
sea, there remains the bitter reality of a desolate environment. The
government of Kazakhstan promises a better future in 2030. They have
to promise something for the future. For an old fisherman kneeling in
front of his grounded boat the only prospect is sand stretching out
as far as the eye can see.

T U E S D A Y   2 2   J U L Y   2 0 0 3

17.00-17.30	FILM: "20,000 Leagues on the Sea" (Bernard
David-Cavaz, 13 minutes, 1995)

This documentary is the portrait of  a Geophysicist, Jean-Francois
Minster, who heads the Laboratory of Oceanography  in Toulouse. This
reveals the implications of climate changes on human populations,
the economy, and life in general like a journey of discovery into a
complex and  mysterious world.

18.00-19.15	FILM: "Fishing in the Sea of Greed" (Anand
Patwardhan, 40 minutes, 1999)

		followed by discussion with
		ANAND PATWARDHAN
		Documentary Film-Maker, Mumbai

W E D N E S D A Y   2 3   J U L Y   2 0 0 3

17.00-18.30	VIDEOS: Urban Sanitation, Transport, and Alliances of
the Urban Poor

		followed by discussion with
		INDU AGARWAL and DEVIKA MAHADEVAN
		SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource
Centres), Mumbai

19.00-21.00	FILM: "Living on the River Agano" (Sato Makoto, 115
minutes, 1992)

The filmmakers filmed and shared everyday life in Kanose, a town on
the River Agano in the Niigata Prefecture. Kanose and nearby Yasuda
lie close to the Showa Electric Company factory that has poisoned the
river by dumping organic mercury waste.

T H U R S D A Y   2 4   J U L Y   2 0 0 3

15.00-16.00	Waterfronts and Ambiguous Boundaries: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

		SHILPA PHADKE and students of St Xavier's College
		Associate, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action
& Research), Mumbai

16.30-18.00	Mumbai's Waterfronts: URBAN DESIGN INTERVENTIONS

		Eastern Waterfront: Bombay Port and Harbour
		ANIRUDH PAUL and PRASAD SHETTY
		Design Cell, Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of
Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai

		Western Waterfronts: Dadar-Mahim, Bandraand Juhu
		P.K. DAS
		Architect, P.K. Das Associates, Mumbai

		discussion moderated by
		VYJAYANTHI RAO
		Director, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action
& Research), U.S.A.

18.30-19.15	FILM: "Canals Suspended in the Sky" (Dominique
Martin-Ferrari, 26 minutes)

Hué, which is crossed by The River of Perfumes, is trying to restore
the canals and the hanging gardens of the Vietnamese city whilst
conciliating the preservation of the architecture and the landscape,
the maintaining of rural populations on the shores of the river, and
the development of tourism. Parcels of land are turned into rice
paddies following the model of the Etang de Thau, and the small
vegetable gardens planted on top of the town walls are preserved.
Huê, the 19th century Imperial City, reconnects with is traditions
and its water heritage.

19.15-18.00	FILM: "The Village of the Mist" (Nina Peliaeva and
George Trivano, 12 minutes)

At Chungungo, in Northern Chile, rain never falls. Since there are no
springs in the village, every week, water is brought to the
inhabitants by lorry. However, the village is near the sea, and every
morning, a thick mist rises up along the mountain slopes. Scientists
have thought up a simple but effective way of collecting the mist to
obtain water. Up to 60,000 litres of water per day can be produced
when there is mist. This has changed the life of the village.

F R I D A Y   2 5   J U L Y   2 0 0 3

15.00-17.00	Water Issues in the Media: PANEL DISCUSSION

		Reporting Water
		PRADEEP SAHA
		Managing Editor, Down To Earth Magazine, New Delhi

		Media Coverage of the Environment
		MEENA MENON
		Journalist and Writer, Mumbai

		discussion moderated by
		SAMEERA KHAN
		Associate, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action
& Research), Mumbai

18.00-19.30	FILM: Premiere of "Words on Water" (Sanjay Kak, 2003,
82 minutes)

		followed by discussion with
		SANJAY KAK
		Film-Maker, Octave Communications, New Delhi

S A T U R D A Y   2 6   J U L Y   2 0 0 3

15.00-16.00	Ecological Footprint of Mumbai: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

		NIKHIL ANAND and students of Sophia College
		Associate, PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action
& Research), Mumbai

16.30-17.00	FILM: "Four Engineers and a Manager" (Pradeep Saha,
2000, 22 minutes)

		followed by discussion with
		PRADEEP SAHA
		Managing Editor, Down To Earth Magazine, New Delhi

17.30-19.00	Water -- Mumbai at Risk?: PANEL DISCUSSION

		discussion chaired by
		NIRUPA BHANGAR
		Educationist, Mumbai

		Water Infrastucture
		NAYAN PAREKH and RACHNA SHETH
		Juhu Together, Mumbai

		Urban-Rural Migration
		KAREN MENEZES and ZARIR DEVITRA
		St Xavier's College, Mumbai

		Perspectives on Privatisation
		SANJAY BHANGAR
		Bombay Independent Media Centre (IMC), Mumbai

19.00-20.00	OPEN DISCUSSION on Cities and Water

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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627, Dadar, Mumbai 400014, INDIA

E-Mail <mailto:secretariat at pukar.org.in>
Phone +91 (022) 2207 7779, +91 98200 45529, +91 98204 04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in
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