[Reader-list] [Announcements] Make/Shift Mumbai: Readings, Imaginations and Propositions

[KRVIA]

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental
Studies (KRVIA),

an initiative of Upanagar Shikshan Mandal, 

is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of the Institute's
work on the city, "Make/Shift Mumbai: Readings, Imaginations and
Propositions". 

The exhibition will be on display from 11 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. from MONDAY
9 JULY to THURSDAY 12 JULY 2007 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu
Sangrahalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India),
Mumbai. 


The exhibition will be inaugurated by:

Chief Guest Dr. (Smt.) Snehalata Deshmukh
Ex. Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai 


on 

MONDAY 9 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
Colaba, Mumbai 400023
India
 


MAKE/SHIFT MUMBAI: Readings, Imaginations and Propositions 

The exhibition "Make/ Shift Mumbai, Readings, Imaginations and
Propositions" will showcase the large repertoire of work on the city
completed over the last fifteen years by the Kamala Raheja Institute of
Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA). Since the institute's
inception in 1992, a group of educationists, professionals and artists
have been involved in envisioning the school's direction, and
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 inter-disciplinary approach, its initiatives have ranged
from mapping and reading the metropolis; 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 post-graduate programme in Urban Studies,
offered as an Master of Architecture (M.Arch) degree with a
specialisation 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 post-graduate 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 from the fourth year of the B.Arch
programme, humanities courses, final year thesis projects, and design
projects undertaken from the first to the fourth year of the
undergraduate programme, all of which engage in readings and
interventions in the city at various scales and through multiple
approaches.    



Kamala Raheja Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies
(KRVIA)
Vidyanidhi Marg, JVPD Scheme
Juhu, Mumbai 400049
India

Tel: +91.22.2670.0918
Fax: +91.22.2620.8547

E-Mail: krviaevents at gmail.com 
Web: http://www.krvia.ac.in



KRVIA Postgraduate Programme in Urban Studies Brochure
http://krvia.ac.in/images/JAK2.pdf

Make/Shift Mumbai Announcement
http://krvia.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=1




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