[Reader-list] [Announcements] KRVIA Exhibition_Make/Shift Mumbai Readings, Imaginations and Propositions

[KRVIA Director]

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental
Studies,

a part of Upanagar Shikshan Mandal,

is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of the Institute's Work
on the City sponsored by Kamla Raheja Foundation.
The exhibition will be inaugurated by
Chief Guest Dr. (Smt.) Snehalata Deshmukh, Ex. Vice Chancellor, University
of Mumbai

on Monday 9th July 2007, at 5:30 p.m.



Venue:

Coomaraswamy Hall, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, (Formerly
Prince of Wales Museum of Western India)

159-61, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Mumbai 400-023.



The exhibition will be on display until Thursday 12thth July 2007 from. 11
a.m.- 7:00 p.m.







*Make/ Shift Mumbai **Readings, Imaginations and Propositions *



Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental studies
(KRVIA) is exhibiting its work on the city of Mumbai from Monday July
9 thuptill Thursday, 12
th in the Coomaraswamy hall of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalay,
formerly known as the Prince of Wales Museum.



The exhibition titled "Make/ *Shift *Mumbai, Readings, Imaginations and
Propositions" will showcase its large repertoire of work on the city
completed over the last 15 years. Since the institute's inception in 1992, a
group of educationists, professionals and artists became involved in
envisioning the direction of the school. Discussions on cities have been
central to its academic investigations. Through its varied research and
consultancy projects and through its undergraduate courses and its
extra-curricular programmes the institute has actively engaged with the city
and provided an important platform for debate and discussion. Espousing an
interdisciplinary approach, its initiatives have ranged from mapping/reading
the metropolis in multiple ways; to providing new spatial imaginations for
the city through its academic work; to its advocacy work, which proposes
alternative futures to the city's development. The college is now starting a
Postgraduate programme in Urban Studies, offered as an Master of
Architecture ( M.Arch) degree with a specialization in Urban Design and
Urban Conservation. The intention is to take its earlier initiatives forward
by providing a platform for structured research and design at the
postgraduate level.



The Exhibition, "Make/ *Shift *Mumbai, Readings, Imaginations and
Propositions" is both a retrospective of the institute's work and an
introduction to its Post Graduate programme. While the three categories
Reading, Imaginations and Propositions are in many ways interconnected, they
form an important structure through which to see the institute's work on the
city. The work displayed through these above conceptual categories has been
done through the institute's Design and Research Cell, its Urban Studies
courses conducted in the fourth year of the B.Arch programme, its Humanities
courses, the Final year thesis projects, and the Design projects undertaken
from the first to the fourth year of the undergraduate programme, which
engage in readings and interventions in the city at various scales and
through multiple approaches.







*KAMLA RAHEJA VIDYANIDHI INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES *

Vidyanidhi Marg, JVPD Scheme, Mumbai 400 049.    Tel: +91 22 26700918
Fax: +91 22 26208547

Email: krviaevents at gmail.com Website: www.krvia.ac.in
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