[Reader-list] [announcements] Friday, 8th April: Beyond Conservation: Heritage Concerns and Urban Futures

[PUKAR]

Venue: Max Mueller Bhavan, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai.

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Date: Friday, 8th April 2005

 

Dear Friend,

 

You are cordially invited to a discussion -



 'Beyond Conservation: Heritage Concerns and Urban Futures'



The particpants include:



- The residents of Khotachiwadi - an urban heritage precinct in south Mumbai. 

- Rahul Srivastava, Co-Director, PUKAR and coordinator of PUKAR's Khotachiwadi Neighborhood Project.

- Pankaj Joshi, PUKAR Associate, Conservation Architect and Advisor to the Project.

 

PUKAR's Khotachiwadi Neighbourhood Project, funded by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Heritage Conservation Society, questions the popular depiction of Mumbai's built form through the slum-skyscraper binary and instead focuses on the enormous variety of habitats that the city generated for its common citizens, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It strongly believes that the issues faced by the wadi go beyond that of conservation and challenges some of the city's choices in shaping its future, especially those that ignore the complex history of built-form in the city.

 

The study* was a Research Action project, in keeping with PUKAR's vision of encouraging citizen partnered knowledge practices and one of its outputs was to formalize the desire of the wadi's residents to set up a residents Trust. This meeting will discuss both, the study conducted by PUKAR as well as the methods for the trust to raise funds for itself to concretely help the wadi.

 

Do please join the discussion!

 

The PUKAR Team

 

 

Venue: Max Mueller Bhavan, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai.

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Date: Friday, 8th April 2005

 

 

Warm regards,

The PUKAR Team 

 

* The study is part of a larger document co-written by PUKAR Associates Rahul Srivastava, Pankaj Joshi and Vyjayanthi Rao titled: Habitat, Heritage and Diversity submitted to UNESCO in June 2004  





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