Editorial Note
The current covid 19 pandemic has only intensified a major fault line in our contemporary world. While the present situation has exposed the inadequacy of our institutions – the home, institutions related to governance, production, learning, leisure, and has rendered the street a dangerous place, it seems like this crisis was already in the making. Our lives were getting increasingly fragmented, at the same time ironically increasingly networked. The utopia of the public that had fired architectural imagination post-independence was already splintering into privatopias of hedonism, with the state taking a back seat. At the same time, we were seeing new ecologies of learning emerging outside the university, new forms of co-living and co-working, new agile forms of production and new forms of leisure. The street had intensified its use from being choked by traffic on the one hand to becoming a home for the city’s many migrants. These are no longer the homogenous modern publics of civil society but multiple collectives that are agile and shapeshifting. It seems like it is these collectives that will be able to salvage our otherwise splintering futures. The question we ask is, ‘what is the architecture of these collectives?’ What new spaces do they occupy? What are our new forms of home and living? What new institutions have we evolved? What are our new spaces of production, of learning, leisure and the street? And what are the new futures of these collectives, that promise to tide us through?
What is the architecture of future collectives?
The future of home and living
The future of learning
The future of institutions
The future of production
The future of leisure
The future of the street
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unbuilt 2.0: architecture of future collectives delves deeper into the meaning of unbuilt, and expands the discourse beyond the buildable unbuilt. It features about 50 ideas, realistic and speculative, along with thought provoking and intriguing essays and captivating conversations on the theme by diverse design professionals across India.
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Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.
Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.
