You are invited to the second of a series of Field Office Workshops, an exploration of new site-specific practices open to university design studios and young/emerging individual professionals/practices.
The second workshop, will be in a hybrid mode during 16-17 March 2024 in Ahmedabad, India. Before the main workshop in March, two pre-workshop sessions will be conducted on 25 January and 15 February.
A city is always in motion across time and space. Changing climate brings impacts hitherto unimagined. Recently developed parts of the city have opportunities for mitigating these impacts through new infrastructure paradigms. It is the older city that bears the brunt. This workshop looks at the city along the Kharicut Canal with this lens.
Kharicut Canal is a water supply infrastructure that traces its history back to the British era and is now a defunct space that accumulates solid and liquid waste. This open space corridor which spans the entire north-south length of Ahmedabad city in its eastern part, has the potential to transform into a new urban infrastructure that not only mitigates the impacts of climate change, but also provides valuable urban space for the citizens. This workshop traces the operational value of Kharicut from history to modern day and situates it with newer values for the future city.
The workshop is supported with funds from CEPT University and the New Centre for Spatial and Digital Ecologies, University of Greenwich.
Places are limited. Apply here by January 7, 2024.
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