Lecture by Kaiwan Mehta
The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with the three artists
Rachel Lopez
Sameer Kulavoor and
Ritesh Uttamchandani
discussing their forms and mediums of discovering and documenting, chronicling and producing anew their cities within Bombay-Mumbai-Bambai.
The talk explores the way we know our cities and our neighbourhoods; walking is a way of recovering the self, as well as bringing back the city and its neighbourhoods home.... home where the neighbourhoods refresh and rethink their histories and present selves, home where ideas rejuvenate or take birth, maybe once more again.... Walking allows the geography of land and physical environment, as well as the geography of the mind and the self to come together - in a union of sorts or maybe a reunion, to burst forth with crisp yet endless readings and tellings - new and old, rereadings and retellings, mirrors of complexities and clarities.
Kaiwan Mehta is a theorist and critic in the fields of visual culture, architecture, and city studies. Mehta has studied Architecture (B. Arch), Literature (MA), Indian Aesthetics (PGDip) and Cultural Studies (PhD). In 2017 he completed his doctorate at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru, under the aegis of Manipal University. Since March 2012 he has been the managing editor of Domus India (Spenta Multimedia). He is also Professor and coordinator of the Doctoral Programme at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad; and part of the CEPT University Press. He has authored Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood and The Architecture of I M Kadri.
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