Collaborators: Srishti Institute of Art Design & Technology & Team YUVAA Place: Walled city, Bidar Timeline: July - November 2016
Next wave of urbanization in India is in the smaller cities and towns. Many of these smaller urban conglomerates have retained tangible and intangible legacies from their pasts. This is an important asset to the communities and governments alike allowing these cities to mark their distinctiveness, attract tourists and inward investment and reimagine a historical urban narrative that feeds into the quality of life. ‘Inherited Urbanism’ (project) is set in this context to understand people, practices and the opportunities it offers to navigate through on-going urbanization. Our inquiry is in the walled city of Bidar, where the historic wall shares an interface with the built and socio-cultural urban quality of the present. It is amidst these ancient infrastructures, cultural markers and a diverse ecological setting the residents - the inheritors of Bidar - carry out their everyday practices. These associative values in the historic parts of Bidar are less understood.
Late Sri Anurag Tiwari, Deputy Commissioner of Bidar in 2016 giving directions to explore for our learners
2016: List of Configurations
SNo
Configuration
Living Labs Nodal Centre
Year
Living Lab Concentration
Micro-context
1
Invisible Crafts and Its Significance
Bidar
2016
Wellbeing of Craft Practices
Bidri craft practice
2
The Call of the Wall
Bidar
2016
Wellbeing of Craft Practices
Bidri craft practice
3
Settlement Patterns and Its Blurring Boundary
Bidar
2016
Unveiling the Lesser Known
Brahmanwadi
4
Adaptive Reuse of Historic Spaces
Bidar
2016
Sensitive Ecologies
City Moat area
5
Reviving Culinary Heritage
Bidar
2016
Unveiling the Lesser Known
Culinary Practice
6
Language As An Element of Space
Bidar
2016
Syncretic Cultures & Practices
Dakkhani Urdu
7
Spatial Transformation
Bidar
2016
Unveiling the Lesser Known
Dargah Pura
8
Festive Spaces : A Study of Festivals in Bidar
Bidar
2016
Syncretic Cultures & Practices
Festivals
9
The Water Beneath Our Feet (Mapping Jamuna Mori)
Bidar
2016
Sensitive Ecologies
Karez
10
Beyond Backwardness
Bidar
2016
Community Wellbeing
Kasaiwada
11
Built Heritage: Impressions of the Past
Bidar
2016
Unveiling the Lesser Known
Old Residences
12
Abode
Bidar
2016
Social Entrepreneurship
Old Residences
13
Collecting Oral Histories
Bidar
2016
Community Wellbeing
Walled city
14
Experience Bidar : Analyzing the Substance of the City
