Facilitated by Rupali Gupte & Prasad Shetty​

16 September, 3:00 – 6:00 pm 

Part of Very Small Feelings​

KNMA Saket

This workshop will dwell on questions of inhabitation along with the forces, energies, memories and material constructions that shape it. These questions emerge from the research practice of Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty (BardStudio) that engages with the city as a formally complex, experientially intense entity with logics that are incoherent. This workshop is open to anyone who would like to pay attention to their own forms of inhabitation. Interested participants (18 +) are required to commit to the entire duration of the workshop. Writing and art materials along with snacks will be provided by the museum. Participants are requested to bring some material from one's personal archives in any format vis a vis one's own inhabitations.

Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty are architects and urbanists, they jointly run Bard Studio, a multidisciplinary practice that traverses between architecture, art, and urban studies, and are founder members of the School of Environment and Architecture in Mumbai. Their research and practice sit at the intersection of experimental pedagogy, exploring different aspects of urban form and experience and building environments and objects inspired by functional everyday urban forms that enable transactional capacities of inhabitation and engagement. For instance, the one-foot paan (betel-nut) shop in a dense Mumbai chawl is both a design intervention and accidental functional innovation of a local shopkeeper.