Space for Engagement Cotton

Space for Engagement CottonWhy do we feel engaged with some places and not with others? How can architecture foster an engagement between people and public places? Spurred by questions like these, this book focuses on contemporary Indian cultural institutions, or artplaces, as a special kind of public place. Offering a critique of contemporary architectural and institutional approaches to place making, this volume proposes an alternative approach to thinking about architecture

‘is the only acceptable sort

most movingly

the site of a workshop facilitated by Prati

The Creator (Kirtikar) is a simple

Nikhil Chopra is a performance artist who focuses on subjects of identity

that we are enslaved by lies of which we ourselves are the authors

matures into an urban adolescent and

But there is more going on here than meets the eye: the letters are addressed to an unnamed ‘other’ and chart the course of an elusive affair

Somnath Hore’s personal diary and sketches of the Tebhaga days are an unusual social document of a peasant movement seen through the eyes of a committed artist

He started off by shooting the streets in Bombay capturing everyday life and later on moved into commercial photography

a virgin and a mother—as well as the attendant divisions of speech and silence

painters and academics