From bhargavi_srao at yahoo.com Wed Dec 2 18:01:58 2009 From: bhargavi_srao at yahoo.com (Bhargavi S.) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 04:31:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Workshop on Fundamentals of Reducing Risk and Managing Urban Disasters Message-ID: <229740.66154.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Environment Support Group invites your participation in a workshop on Fundamentals of Reducing Risk and Managing Urban Disasters A Workshop for Schools, Colleges, Voluntary organizations, Hospitals, Resident Welfare Associations and Corporate organisations Saturday, 19th November 2009, Time: 2.00 pm -6.00 pm Venue: Regional Institute of Cooperative Management, No.6, Padmanabhanagar, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore 560070 Rapid urbanisation and unplanned growth is increasing the risk of disasters in our cities. The competition for building mega infrastructure, whether required or not, in a rush to showcase urban areas raises serious questions about how secure these new projects are in meeting a disaster event.  As old neighbourhoods crumble under increased pressure of land use and rise in population densities, the risk to lives and livelihoods of residents has to be revisited. Poor solid waste management, poor underground drainage, violation in building byelaws, lack of proper implementation of the land use norms per the Town and Country Planning Act standards, come together in creating high risk neighourhoods.  A lackadaisical attitude amongst regulatory authorities has compounded the risk factors and turned our cities into high impact disaster zones. Urban settlements are prone to all sorts of disasters.  Frequently occurring types are floods (Bangalore, despite having no major river within 100 kms.!, not to forget Mumbai), fire (Explosion of refineries in Jaipur and Vizag), earthquakes (Ahmedabad), landslides (Guwahati), cyclones (Chennai), heat and cold waves (Delhi) and a variety of human induced environmental disasters (Plague in Surat).  In addition the weighing down of land in urban areas through high rise constructions is increasing seismic risk, while concretization of urban open spaces is reducing ground water recharge, besides increasing flooding. In addition, climate change induced impacts will increase the risk of disasters, especially in coastal cities.  Cities are clearly becoming increasingly vulnerable to disasters, both natural and human induced.  Simply stated, we are not prepared to meet such eventualities. This is in a period when we have moved into a demographic profile where most humans on this planet live in cities. Not being prepared can enhance risk.  This means increased loss of life, property and an irreversible impact on society and our economy. Recovery from such events takes a very long time, especially for resource deprived societies such as ours.  Needless to state the worst affected would be poor and depressed communities.   There is hope however, for the greatest potential in planning and responding to a disaster exists amongst local communities.  Disaster after disaster has proven that local communities respond first and most effectively when disaster strikes. A recent example is how local residents mobilized search operations to join fire forces in looking for two small children who got washed into our drains due to totally avoidable urban flooding.  How to Plan and Prevent Disasters is the first big step – and this is within everyone’s reach.  All it requires is a strong sense of community ownership and some smart thinking.  It is time we work together as a community to identify risks around us, strategically prepare and plan actions to reduce the impacts and come together in the eventuality of a disaster. This workshop will help participants address risks related to urban flooding, fires, epidemics, earthquakes and environmental disasters and will focus on how we can identify risks, share creative methods to build local action networks, and work with authorities in planning forward and responding to disasters. The workshop will include speakers from Fire Forces, Public Health Practitioners with experience of work in disaster prone areas, Lawyers, Police, Voluntary Organizations who have involved in relief and rehabilitation in disaster zones and Urban Planners. Registration fees Rs.150/- (To be paid by cash or Cheque drawn in favour of Environment Support Group) For registration and more details please contact Bhargavi S. Rao, Coordinator (Education), Environment Support Group.  Email: bhargavi at esgindia.org/esg at esgindia.org  Environment Support Group, 1572, Ring Road, Banashankari 2nd stage, Bangalore 560070 Tel: 080-26713559-61 Web: www.esgindia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091202/5958ec2d/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Workshop on Urban Disasters_Flyer.doc Type: application/msword Size: 72704 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091202/5958ec2d/attachment-0001.doc From leofsaldanha at gmail.com Thu Dec 3 06:00:26 2009 From: leofsaldanha at gmail.com (Leo Saldanha) Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:00:26 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Workshop on Fundamentals of Reducing Risk and Managing Urban Disasters In-Reply-To: <229740.66154.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <229740.66154.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4B1706A2.4080604@gmail.com> Please note the date of the workshop ought to be 19th December and not as earlier mentioned. Bhargavi S. wrote: > > *Environment Support Group* > > *invites your participation in a workshop on* > > *Fundamentals of Reducing Risk and Managing Urban Disasters* > > A Workshop for Schools, Colleges, Voluntary organizations, Hospitals, > Resident Welfare Associations and Corporate organisations** > > *Saturday, 19^th December 2009, Time: 2.00 pm -6.00 pm* > > *_Venue: Regional Institute of Cooperative Management, No.6, > Padmanabhanagar, Banashankari 2^nd Stage, Bangalore 560070_*** > > Rapid urbanisation and unplanned growth is increasing the risk of > disasters in our cities. The competition for building mega > infrastructure, whether required or not, in a rush to showcase urban > areas raises serious questions about how secure these new projects are > in meeting a disaster event. > > As old neighbourhoods crumble under increased pressure of land use and > rise in population densities, the risk to lives and livelihoods of > residents has to be revisited. Poor solid waste management, poor > underground drainage, violation in building byelaws, lack of proper > implementation of the land use norms per the Town and Country Planning > Act standards, come together in creating high risk neighourhoods. A > lackadaisical attitude amongst regulatory authorities has compounded > the risk factors and turned our cities into high impact disaster zones. > > Urban settlements are prone to all sorts of disasters. Frequently > occurring types are floods (Bangalore, despite having no major river > within 100 kms.!, not to forget Mumbai), fire (Explosion of refineries > in Jaipur and Vizag), earthquakes (Ahmedabad), landslides (Guwahati), > cyclones (Chennai), heat and cold waves (Delhi) and a variety of human > induced environmental disasters (Plague in Surat). In addition the > weighing down of land in urban areas through high rise constructions > is increasing seismic risk, while concretization of urban open spaces > is reducing ground water recharge, besides increasing flooding. In > addition, climate change induced impacts will increase the risk of > disasters, especially in coastal cities. > > Cities are clearly becoming increasingly vulnerable to disasters, both > natural and human induced. Simply stated, we are not prepared to meet > such eventualities. This is in a period when we have moved into a > demographic profile where most humans on this planet live in cities. > Not being prepared can enhance risk. This means increased loss of > life, property and an irreversible impact on society and our economy. > Recovery from such events takes a very long time, especially for > resource deprived societies such as ours. Needless to state the worst > affected would be poor and depressed communities. > > There is hope however, for the greatest potential in planning and > responding to a disaster exists amongst local communities. Disaster > after disaster has proven that local communities respond first and > most effectively when disaster strikes. A recent example is how local > residents mobilized search operations to join fire forces in looking > for two small children who got washed into our drains due to totally > avoidable urban flooding. > > /How to Plan and Prevent Disasters/ is the first big step – and this > is within everyone’s reach. All it requires is a strong sense of > community ownership and some smart thinking. It is time we work > together as a community to identify risks around us, strategically > prepare and plan actions to reduce the impacts and come together in > the eventuality of a disaster. > > This workshop will help participants address risks related to urban > flooding, fires, epidemics, earthquakes and environmental disasters > and will focus on how we can identify risks, share creative methods to > build local action networks, and work with authorities in planning > forward and responding to disasters. The workshop will include > speakers from Fire Forces, Public Health Practitioners with experience > of work in disaster prone areas, Lawyers, Police, Voluntary > Organizations who have involved in relief and rehabilitation in > disaster zones and Urban Planners. > > *Registration fees Rs.150/- (To be paid by cash or Cheque drawn in > favour of Environment Support Group)* > > For registration and more details please contact Bhargavi S. Rao, > Coordinator (Education), Environment Support Group. > > Email: bhargavi at esgindia.org/esg at esgindia.org > Environment Support > Group, 1572, Ring Road, Banashankari 2^nd stage, Bangalore 560070 Tel: > 080-26713559-61 > Web: www.esgindia.org > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Urbanstudygroup mailing list > Urban Study Group: Reading the South Asian City > > To subscribe or browse the Urban Study Group archives, please visit https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/urbanstudygroup > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(Please see http://solutionexchange-un.net.in/decn/cr/res04120901.doc ; Size: 128 KB) We have had a lot of discussion on this forum on decentralized planning, the latest instance being the discussion on the BRGF programme. One of the hindrances of achieving meaningful empowerment of Panchayats through the decentralized planning route has been the inability of higher levels of government to make available the details of their budget envelopes to each Panchayat. It is only in very few districts has this been achieved, that too with great difficulty after patient work by the Technical Support Agencies. The decentralized planning handbook brought out by the Planning Commission has devoted an entire chapter to this issue, but it is still not followed on the ground. All of you are well aware of the importance of the Right to Information Act and many might have used it already. You are also aware that citizens have been using the RTI against the Panchayats, particularly in the case of NREGA. Taking a cue from this, a while back, I had mooted on this forum, the idea of Panchayat elected representatives using the right to information on a large scale on behalf of their Panchayats to obtain details from all relevant departments about the funds that they spend in each Panchayat’s jurisdiction, so that they can inform their Grama Sabhas about the money spent. This would empower Panchayats in the following ways: (a) Its large scale is impressive (b) It can be legally enforced and it puts pressure on all departments to be accountable,(c) When Gram Panchayats obtain a large range of budgetary information, it can lead to more confidence and greater assertion (d) It fortifies the faith that Gram Sabhas have in Gram Panchayats. When informed discussion takes place in a large number of Gram Sabhas on the amount of money spent (or claimed to be spent) in the Gram Panchayat area, they will surely spur people into demanding that this money should be given to the Panchayats instead of being spent by line departments. Therefore the pressure to devolve more to the Panchayats will come as a groundswell from below. However, one does not know whether this was actually picked up, except in a few cases. Now, two of us have teamed up to renew this effort. We have attached two files, which contain some simple instructions to follow, namely, · Part 1: A set of simple action points for the Panchayats to follow to undertake this task, · Part II: A Format in which the request can be made to the department concerned by the Panchayats, along with instructions on how to use the format, · Part III: A list of commonly faced obstacles when seeking information and how to overcome them. · Part IV: An illustrative list of departments that could be approached. (For Parts 1-IV please see http://solutionexchange-un.net.in/decn/cr/res04120901.doc ; Size: 128 KB) · Part V: The latest list of centrally sponsored schemes, which gives you an idea of which schemes to prioritize, while seeking information from departments. This is contained in a separate excel sheet. (Please see http://solutionexchange-un.net.in/decn/cr/res04120902.xls ; Size: 88.5 KB ) We hope that members of the Decentralization Community will find our work useful. We invite your comments on the documents prepared by us. On our part, we hope to pilot the process with some Gram Panchayats in Karnataka. We would like to emphasize that all that we have put out is entirely ‘open source’, you can use the formats, translate them and use it on one condition; that you put out your experience in this initiative so that the collective body of knowledge of the Exchange can grow. Our work is just one small step forward. Some ways of making the movement a success are as follows: (a) Give massive publicity, (b) Undertake steps such as calling Grama Sabhas and submitting of the petitions under Right to Information Act in a campaign mode, on pre-determined days across the State (c) Pick and choose departments where the use of the right to information returns the maximum dividends. (d) Give other departments adequate warning that they will be taken up next and that they had better be ready with the information (e) Prosecute a few government officers who have resisted giving information as test cases. (f) Keep the State Information Commission informed in advance of the effort and he can promptly take action when appeals are filed We welcome your suggestions for the improvement of the formats. Sumana Baliga, T.R.RaghunandanBangalore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091208/d9a9c7a1/attachment.html From leofsaldanha at gmail.com Sun Dec 13 01:09:15 2009 From: leofsaldanha at gmail.com (Leo Saldanha) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:09:15 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] [Fwd: Bangalore residents succeed in keeping entry to parks free] Message-ID: <4B23F163.4090505@gmail.com> http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-9083.html Bangalore residents succeed in keeping entry to parks free *Bangalore, Dec 11 : Groups of determined Bangaloreans have forced the state government to drop its plan to curb free entry of fitness enthusiasts - morning/evening walkers, joggers and the like - to the city's two landmark parks.* The Karnataka horticulture department that looks after Lalbagh and Cubbon Park gave up the move to introduce ID cards for the regular morning/evening visitors to the two sprawling lung spaces of the tech hub. While entry to Lalbagh, spread over 240 acres in south Bangalore, is ticketed during day, for decades, fitness enthusiasts have been flocking to it in the mornings and evenings without any restrictions. In contrast, access to the 330-acre Cubbon Park, across the state secretariat Vidhana Soudha in city centre , is free throughout the day. Citing need for heightened security at all public places and also to raise funds for the upkeep of the two parks, the horticulture department proposed ID card for regular morning/evening walkers and fitness buffs at a cost of Rs.200 per year for adults and Rs.100 for children under 12. The move incensed citizen groups, which thought this was the first step to turn the city's public parks into a sort of private space and organised series of protests since November when the department announced its plan. "The government has taken the right decision. I welcome the decision. Citizens should have free access to parks and public spaces without any hassles. Introduction of ID cards is not going to solve security concerns of the government," M.R. Doreswamy, president of Lalbagh Walkers' Association, told IANS Friday. The protests were led by various citizen groups, including Lalbagh Walkers' Association, Environment Support Group, Slum Jagatthu, Vimochana, Dalit Sangharsh Samiti Samyojaka, Sanmathi, Alternative Law Forum, Sangama, Stree Jagruthi Samithi, CIVIC Bangalore, Hasiru Usiru and Open Space. Announcing the decision to drop the plan Thursday, horticulture department director N. Jayaram, however, said the ID card move was only for security reasons and not to impose curbs on regular visitors. "Citizens of Bangalore are no security threat. Rather the government should be more vigilant to make the city safe and secure. Restricting Bangaloreans from moving freely within the city is no democracy. We welcome the government's withdrawal of its earlier decision," said Bhargavi S. Rao, coordinator of Environment Support Group, Bangalore. "Young and old love these parks. If children from poor families play in parks, then elderly come here to relax. Introduction of ID cards and fees to enter parks would have deterred poor people from having access to city's green spaces," she added. --IANS -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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While entry to Lalbagh, spread over 240 acres in south Bangalore, is ticketed during day, for decades, fitness enthusiasts have been flocking to it in the mornings and evenings without any restrictions. In contrast, access to the 330-acre Cubbon Park, across the state secretariat Vidhana Soudha in city centre , is free throughout the day. Citing need for heightened security at all public places and also to raise funds for the upkeep of the two parks, the horticulture department proposed ID card for regular morning/evening walkers and fitness buffs at a cost of Rs.200 per year for adults and Rs.100 for children under 12. The move incensed citizen groups, which thought this was the first step to turn the city's public parks into a sort of private space and organised series of protests since November when the department announced its plan. "The government has taken the right decision. I welcome the decision. Citizens should have free access to parks and public spaces without any hassles. Introduction of ID cards is not going to solve security concerns of the government," M.R. Doreswamy, president of Lalbagh Walkers' Association, told IANS Friday. The protests were led by various citizen groups, including Lalbagh Walkers' Association, Environment Support Group, Slum Jagatthu, Vimochana, Dalit Sangharsh Samiti Samyojaka, Sanmathi, Alternative Law Forum, Sangama, Stree Jagruthi Samithi, CIVIC Bangalore, Hasiru Usiru and Open Space. Announcing the decision to drop the plan Thursday, horticulture department director N. Jayaram, however, said the ID card move was only for security reasons and not to impose curbs on regular visitors. "Citizens of Bangalore are no security threat. Rather the government should be more vigilant to make the city safe and secure. Restricting Bangaloreans from moving freely within the city is no democracy. We welcome the government's withdrawal of its earlier decision," said Bhargavi S. Rao, coordinator of Environment Support Group, Bangalore. 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Please come by! (See registration details below). And do come by the exhibition. There will also be a film series, so look for more information to come in short time on the exhibition and film series. Curt --------- Dear friends, A one-day workshop on Streets is being organized by the Urban Research and Policy Programme (URPP) of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), in collaboration with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust (A.R.T), Bangalore. The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010, from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., at the NIAS Auditorium, NIAS, Indian Institute of Science campus. The workshop will examine the past and present and look towards the future to understand how a street shapes and produces the social, economic, physical, and political environment of the city. It will provide a platform to move beyond thinking of the street as a stage set or benign backdrop to urban life, to suggest instead that the street plays a more important and active role in shaping how people move, interact, do business, comprise or negotiate with authority and make claims to urban space. The workshop is part of a larger event on 'Streets' that includes an exhibition and film screenings, beginning on Sunday, January 3, at Venkatappa Art Gallery (programme to be circulated soon). There will be four thematic sessions: 'Imagining the Street', 'Boundaries and Grids', 'Producing the Street', and 'Politics beyond Marginality', as well as a concluding open session on 'Thinking the City through the Street'. Speakers include Ravi Sundaram (SARAI, Delhi), Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College, USA), Prasad Shetty (CRIT, Mumbai), Shveta Sarda (Cybermohalla Lab, LNJP - SARAI), Curt Gambetta (Rice University, USA), Annapurna Garimella and Fiza Ishaq (A.R.T., Bangalore), Lalitha Kamath (TISS, Mumbai) and P. Rajan, Jonathan Anjaria (Bard College, USA),Zainab Bawa (CSCS, Bangalore), and Solomon Benjamin (NIAS). We invite you to participate in the workshop. For registration, please contact: NIAS Urban Programme niasurpp at gmail.com Mariyammal: nias_mmu at yahoo.co.in, 22185078 or Sanam: sanam.roohi at gmail.com, 9243092970 With best wishes, Solly Benjamin Curt Gambetta Annapurna Garimella Carol Upadhya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091219/bb8810f9/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Streets Workshop Programme.doc Type: application/msword Size: 40448 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091219/bb8810f9/attachment-0001.doc From cugambetta at yahoo.com Sun Dec 20 09:56:44 2009 From: cugambetta at yahoo.com (Curt Gambetta) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:26:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Urbanstudy] Streets: A workshop, January 2, NIAS, Bangalore Message-ID: <304264.46611.qm@web57409.mail.re1.yahoo.com> (Apologies for the double posting, the program is included as text in this email, for those who subscribe to the digest version) Dear friends, A one-day workshop on Streets is being organized by the Urban Research and Policy Programme (URPP) of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), in collaboration with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust (A.R.T), Bangalore. The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010, from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., at the NIAS Auditorium, NIAS, Indian Institute of Science campus. The workshop will examine the past and present and look towards the future to understand how a street shapes and produces the social, economic, physical, and political environment of the city. It will provide a platform to move beyond thinking of the street as a stage set or benign backdrop to urban life, to suggest instead that the street plays a more important and active role in shaping how people move, interact, do business, comprise or negotiate with authority and make claims to urban space. The workshop is part of a larger event on 'Streets' that includes an exhibition and film screenings, beginning on Sunday, January 3, at Venkatappa Art Gallery (programme to be circulated soon). There will be four thematic sessions: 'Imagining the Street', 'Boundaries and Grids', 'Producing the Street', and 'Politics beyond Marginality', as well as a concluding open session on 'Thinking the City through the Street'. Speakers include Ravi Sundaram (SARAI, Delhi), Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College, USA), Prasad Shetty (CRIT, Mumbai), Shveta Sarda (Cybermohalla Lab, LNJP - SARAI), Curt Gambetta (Rice University, USA), Annapurna Garimella and Fiza Ishaq (A.R.T., Bangalore), Lalitha Kamath (TISS, Mumbai) and P. Rajan, Jonathan Anjaria (Bard College, USA),Zainab Bawa (CSCS, Bangalore), and Solomon Benjamin (NIAS). We invite you to participate in the workshop. For registration, please contact: NIAS Urban Programme niasurpp at gmail.com Mariyammal: nias_mmu at yahoo.co.in, 22185078 or Sanam: sanam.roohi at gmail.com, 9243092970 With best wishes, Solly Benjamin Curt Gambetta Annapurna Garimella Carol Upadhya STREETS: A Workshop, PROGRAM 9:00 - 9:30 Registration & Tea 9:30-9:40 Introduction to the Workshop Curt Gambetta and Solomon Benjamin Session I. Imagining the Street The opening session looks at how the street has been produced as an object of inquiry, an agent of change and a site of governmentality. Investigating sites in India from late colonial times, the Nehruvian era, and more recent experiences of documentation and mapping, the session considers the wider politics and consequences of the modalities that both produce and regulate the street. Chair: Solomon Benjamin (NIAS) 9:40 -10:00 Ravi Sundaram (SARAI-CSDS, Delhi) The Street as Image: >From Planning to the Digital Surface 10:00 -10:20 Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College, USA) Street Scheming: The Street and Planning in Late Colonial Bombay 10.20 -11.00 Discussion 11:00 to 11:20 Tea break Session II. Boundaries and Grids This session will investigate the related terrains of boundary and grid as sites of contestation and transformation. How do we conceptualize new specializations and contestations? In what ways are concepts of public life linked to a politics of legibility? Do the ambiguity or illegibility of boundaries between street and urban fabric suggest more complicated claims to the city? What alliances are drawn around the grid and the rule of law?And, what consequences do new urban morphologies have for the relationship between architecture and the street? Chair: Harini Nagendra (ATREE, Bangalore) 11:20 - 11:40 Prasad Shetty (CRIT, UDRI Mumbai) Rethinking the Street: Problems with the Idea of Public Space 11:40 - 12:00 Shveta Sarda (Cybermohalla Lab, LNJP - SARAI) Confronting The Survey: Negotiating Spaces & Blurred Boundaries 12:00 -12:20 Curt Gambetta (Rice University) Between Architecture and Infrastructure 12:20 to 1:00 Discussion 1:00 to 2:00 LUNCH Session III. Producing the Street Who produces the street? Does the economic rationality that is emphasized by the new forms of infrastructure and management erase more complex historical meanings that are produced within the street? Are there more complex memories and living traditions embodied in streets such as processional rituals or territorial appropriations that reinforce contesting forms of producing the street? Chair: Jyoti Hosagrahar (SUI and Columbia University) 2:00 to 2:20 Annapurna Garimella and Fiza Ishaq (A.R.T., Bangalore) Procession and Community Identity: Muharram in Johnson Market, Bangalore 2:20 - 2:40 Lalitha Kamath (TISS, Mumbai) and P. Rajan (Bangalore) Co-producing the Street: A Brief History of the Life of and Tussle over Bangalore’s CMH Road 2:40 - 3:20 Discussion 3.20 – 3.40 Tea break Session IV. Politics Beyond Marginality Does the lived experience of streets point to occupancies and appropriations that substantiate a counter to High Modernism? Are there shifts in the nature of property now sought to be titled and disciplined to reduce streets into spaces of transitions rather than dwelling? Chair: Amita Baviskar (IEG, Delhi) 3:40 -4:00 Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (Bard College) Street Dwelling 4:00 -4:20 Zainab Bawa (CSCS, Bangalore) When Roads and Railway Tracks are Widened ... 4:20 - 5.00 Discussion 5.00 – 5.30 Open Discussion: Thinking the City through the Street In an era of intensive urban renewal and emergent governmentalities, how does ‘thinking the street’ affect how we think about cities? Chair: Carol Upadhya (NIAS) / Solomon Benjamin (NIAS) From carol.upadhya at gmail.com Mon Dec 21 08:19:52 2009 From: carol.upadhya at gmail.com (Carol Upadhya) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:19:52 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Streets: A workshop In-Reply-To: <4b84e4260912201848p2a603ed7u7bd2cb903034414a@mail.gmail.com> References: <4b84e4260912160331l51a8422fsc4a4714aa41edb69@mail.gmail.com> <4b84e4260912170017w37c381d1j5e5259b10ed049fe@mail.gmail.com> <4b84e4260912182209q1b4bf769m4d9ba261f5ab0042@mail.gmail.com> <4b84e4260912182216y25a40d09i8cf532c74f9cb7c9@mail.gmail.com> <4b84e4260912182226x102e0d29oe02c264086cdf1c5@mail.gmail.com> <4b84e4260912182226m61dd1f90kd79c6707f44f12c6@mail.gmail.com> <4b84e4260912201848p2a603ed7u7bd2cb903034414a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4b84e4260912201849gd1c49e9y8ed58fbc43b61d3e@mail.gmail.com> Dear friends, A one-day workshop on *Streets *is being organized by the Urban Research and Policy Programme (URPP) of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), in collaboration with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust (A.R.T), Bangalore. The workshop will be held on *Saturday, January 2nd*, 2010, from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., at the NIAS Auditorium, NIAS, Indian Institute of Science campus. The workshop will examine the past and present and look towards the future to understand how a street shapes and produces the social, economic, physical, and political environment of the city. It will provide a platform to move beyond thinking of the street as a stage set or benign backdrop to urban life, to suggest instead that the street plays a more important and active role in shaping how people move, interact, do business, comprise or negotiate with authority and make claims to urban space. The workshop is part of a larger event on 'Streets' that includes an exhibition and film screenings, beginning on Sunday, January 3, at Venkatappa Art Gallery (programme to be circulated soon). There will be four thematic sessions: 'Imagining the Street', 'Boundaries and Grids', 'Producing the Street', and 'Politics beyond Marginality', as well as a concluding open session on 'Thinking the City through the Street'. Speakers include Ravi Sundaram (SARAI, Delhi), Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College, USA), Prasad Shetty (CRIT, Mumbai), Shveta Sarda (Cybermohalla Lab, LNJP - SARAI), Curt Gambetta (Rice University), Annapurna Garimella and Fiza Ishaq (A.R.T., Bangalore), Lalitha Kamath and P. Rajan (TISS, Mumbai), Jonathan Anjaria (Bard College, USA), Zainab Bawa (CSCS, Bangalore), and Solomon Benjamin (NIAS). We invite you to participate in the workshop. For registration, please contact: NIAS Urban Programme* niasurpp at gmail.com* ** Mariyammal: nias_mmu at yahoo.co.in, 22185078 or Sanam: sanam.roohi at gmail.com, 9243092970 With best wishes, Solly Benjamin Curt Gambetta Annapurna Garimella Carol Upadhya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thus I am sending again! -Curt) Dear friends, A one-day workshop on Streets is being organized by the Urban Research and Policy Programme (URPP) of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), in collaboration with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust (A.R.T), Bangalore. The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010, from 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., at the NIAS Auditorium, NIAS, Indian Institute of Science campus. The workshop will examine the past and present and look towards the future to understand how a street shapes and produces the social, economic, physical, and political environment of the city. It will provide a platform to move beyond thinking of the street as a stage set or benign backdrop to urban life, to suggest instead that the street plays a more important and active role in shaping how people move, interact, do business, comprise or negotiate with authority and make claims to urban space. The workshop is part of a larger event on 'Streets' that includes an exhibition and film screenings, beginning on Sunday, January 3, at Venkatappa Art Gallery (programme to be circulated soon). There will be four thematic sessions: 'Imagining the Street', 'Boundaries and Grids', 'Producing the Street', and 'Politics beyond Marginality', as well as a concluding open session on 'Thinking the City through the Street'. Speakers include Ravi Sundaram (SARAI, Delhi), Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College, USA), Prasad Shetty (CRIT, Mumbai), Shveta Sarda (Cybermohalla Lab, LNJP - SARAI), Curt Gambetta (Rice University, USA), Annapurna Garimella and Fiza Ishaq (A.R.T., Bangalore), Lalitha Kamath (TISS, Mumbai) and P. Rajan, Jonathan Anjaria (Bard College, USA),Zainab Bawa (CSCS, Bangalore), and Solomon Benjamin (NIAS). We invite you to participate in the workshop. For registration, please contact: NIAS Urban Programme niasurpp at gmail.com Mariyammal: nias_mmu at yahoo.co.in, 22185078 or Sanam: sanam.roohi at gmail.com, 9243092970 With best wishes, Solly Benjamin Curt Gambetta Annapurna Garimella Carol Upadhya STREETS: A Workshop, PROGRAM 9:00 - 9:30 Registration & Tea 9:30-9:40 Introduction to the Workshop Curt Gambetta and Solomon Benjamin Session I. Imagining the Street The opening session looks at how the street has been produced as an object of inquiry, an agent of change and a site of governmentality. Investigating sites in India from late colonial times, the Nehruvian era, and more recent experiences of documentation and mapping, the session considers the wider politics and consequences of the modalities that both produce and regulate the street. Chair: Solomon Benjamin (NIAS) 9:40 -10:00 Ravi Sundaram (SARAI-CSDS, Delhi) The Street as Image: From Planning to the Digital Surface 10:00 -10:20 Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College, USA) Street Scheming: The Street and Planning in Late Colonial Bombay 10.20 -11.00 Discussion 11:00 to 11:20 Tea break Session II. Boundaries and Grids This session will investigate the related terrains of boundary and grid as sites of contestation and transformation. How do we conceptualize new specializations and contestations? In what ways are concepts of public life linked to a politics of legibility? Do the ambiguity or illegibility of boundaries between street and urban fabric suggest more complicated claims to the city? What alliances are drawn around the grid and the rule of law?And, what consequences do new urban morphologies have for the relationship between architecture and the street? Chair: Harini Nagendra (ATREE, Bangalore) 11:20 - 11:40 Prasad Shetty (CRIT, UDRI Mumbai) Rethinking the Street: Problems with the Idea of Public Space 11:40 - 12:00 Shveta Sarda (Cybermohalla Lab, LNJP - SARAI) Confronting The Survey: Negotiating Spaces & Blurred Boundaries 12:00 -12:20 Curt Gambetta (Rice University) Between Architecture and Infrastructure 12:20 to 1:00 Discussion 1:00 to 2:00 LUNCH Session III. Producing the Street Who produces the street? Does the economic rationality that is emphasized by the new forms of infrastructure and management erase more complex historical meanings that are produced within the street? Are there more complex memories and living traditions embodied in streets such as processional rituals or territorial appropriations that reinforce contesting forms of producing the street? Chair: Jyoti Hosagrahar (SUI and Columbia University) 2:00 to 2:20 Annapurna Garimella and Fiza Ishaq (A.R.T., Bangalore) Procession and Community Identity: Muharram in Johnson Market, Bangalore 2:20 - 2:40 Lalitha Kamath (TISS, Mumbai) and P. Rajan (Bangalore) Co-producing the Street: A Brief History of the Life of and Tussle over Bangalore’s CMH Road 2:40 - 3:20 Discussion 3.20 – 3.40 Tea break Session IV. Politics Beyond Marginality Does the lived experience of streets point to occupancies and appropriations that substantiate a counter to High Modernism? Are there shifts in the nature of property now sought to be titled and disciplined to reduce streets into spaces of transitions rather than dwelling? Chair: Amita Baviskar (IEG, Delhi) 3:40 -4:00 Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (Bard College) Street Dwelling 4:00 -4:20 Zainab Bawa (CSCS, Bangalore) When Roads and Railway Tracks are Widened ... 4:20 - 5.00 Discussion 5.00 – 5.30 Open Discussion: Thinking the City through the Street In an era of intensive urban renewal and emergent governmentalities, how does ‘thinking the street’ affect how we think about cities? Chair: Carol Upadhya (NIAS) / Solomon Benjamin (NIAS) From artscapeindia at gmail.com Thu Dec 17 15:54:41 2009 From: artscapeindia at gmail.com (Art, Resources & Teaching) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:54:41 +0530 Subject: [Urbanstudy] Invitation_Art and Social Media Workshop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7397dac50912170224s268af829oaec7120830132130@mail.gmail.com> [image: http://artscapeindia.org/emailerartandsocialmedia.jpg] *Art, Resources and Teaching Trust (A.R.T.)* Bangalore invites you to a two days workshop, “Art and Social Media” by Anita Garimella. Anita Garimella (http://www.linkedin.com/in/anitagarimella) is an internet and software product management and marketing consultant. After graduating from Stanford University’s Human Computer Interaction Program in 2000, she has worked on several projects in the industry including the creation and design of applications for Wallop, Facebook and Bebo. The schedule of the workshop is as follows: Day 1 *Social Media, Web 1.0 and 2.0, and Art* 11.00 AM - 1.00 PM • What is Social Media – and how does it connect with Web 2.0? • How is Social Media measured? • Virality, and the dangers of this new yardstick • Brief overview of Art & Social Media Lunch 1.00 PM - 2.00 PM *Deep Dive – Case Studies of Art and Social Media* 2.00 PM - 4.30 PM • Art blogs & discourse • Facebook & art • Art-making • Art marketing • Art pedagogy Day 2 *Opportunities & Challenges for Art using Social Media* 11.00 AM - 1.00 PM • What is art in this context? • What are good ways to use social media for art? • Importance of defining goals in social media usage • Copyrights and public domain • Democratization of art – is that really possible? Lunch 1.00 PM - 2.00 PM *Future of the Internet and technology and their impact on Art* 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM • Web 3.0: Surf to Search to Subscribe • How to penetrate in an increasingly aggregated world • New technologies Find attached a registration form. You can also download the registration form from our website www.artscapeindia.org. Interested participants can complete the registration form and send it along with a DD of Rs.1800/- (per participant and includes lunch and handout material) to the address given in the form. Bitasta Das Art, Resources and Teaching Trust (A.R.T.) Casa Andree II, First Floor, No.8 B 1, Andree Road, Shanti Nagar, Bangalore 560 027+91.80.4112.4556 and +91.80.2211.4640 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091217/bc011f0d/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Curt --------------- Dear friends, A one-day workshop on Streets is being organized by the Urban Research and Policy Programme of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), in collaboration with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust (A.R.T), Bangalore. The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 2nd, 2010, from 9.00 a.m.to 5.30 p.m., at the JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS, Indian Institute of Science campus. The workshop will examine the past, the present and look towards the future to understand how a street shapes and produces the social, economic, physical, and political environment of the city. It will provide a platform to move beyond thinking of the street as a stage set or benign backdrop to urban life, to suggest instead that the street plays a more important and active role in shaping how people move, interact, do business, comprise or negotiate with authority and make claims to urban space. There will be four thematic sessions: 'Imagining the Street', 'Boundaries and Grids', 'Producing the Street', and 'Politics beyond Marginality', as well as a concluding open session on 'Thinking the City through the Street'. Speakers include Ravi Sundaram (SARAI, Delhi), Nikhil Rao (Wellesley College, USA), Prasad Shetty (CRIT, Mumbai), Shveta Sarda (Cybermohalla Lab, LNJP - SARAI), Curt Gambetta (Rice University), Annapurna Garimella and Fiza Ishaq (A.R.T., Bangalore), Lalitha Kamath (TISS, Mumbai), Jonathan Anjaria (Bard College, USA), Zainab Bawa (CSCS, Bangalore), and Solomon Benjamin (NIAS). We invite you to participate in the workshop. For registration, please contact: Mariyammal: nias_mmu at yahoo.co.in, 22185078 or Sanam: sanam.roohi at gmail.com, 9243092970 The workshop is part of a larger event on 'Streets' that includes an exhibition and film screenings. The exhibition ‘Streets’ will be a rare opportunity for audiences to see work by several photographers and artists from Bangalore and other Indian cities, each looking at the street through his or her work with a unique perspective. The aim of the show is to create a visual dialogue on the historical, cultural, social and economic layers of the street and its role in shaping how people move, interact, do business, comprise or negotiate with authority and make claims to urban space. The exhibition opening is onSunday, January 3rd at 6.00 pmat the VenkatappaArtGallery. The exhibition will continue tillSaturday, January 9th, 2010from10.00 amto 5.30 pm. The film screenings will be held on Tuesday, January 5th, Thursday, January 7th and Friday, January 8th 2010from 3.00 pmto 6.45 pmat the Venkatappa auditorium(programme given below). Please feel free to invite your friends, Art, Resources & Teaching Casa Andree II, First Floor, No.8 B 1 Andree Road, Shanti Nagar Bangalore 560 027 +91.80.4112.4556 info at artscapeindia.org www.artscapeindia.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091226/04346556/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Streets poster.png Type: image/png Size: 193584 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091226/04346556/attachment-0001.png From harishpoovaiah at gmail.com Mon Dec 7 10:45:02 2009 From: harishpoovaiah at gmail.com (Harish Poovaiah) Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:15:02 -0000 Subject: [Urbanstudy] INVITATION to public discussion on Genetically Modified (GM) Food: How does this matter to a common man? In-Reply-To: <9f18f6e50912062112n158c3686i7766cadac20e682a@mail.gmail.com> References: <9f18f6e50912012330y7139d996x128c7463c9bc46d6@mail.gmail.com> <9f18f6e50912062112n158c3686i7766cadac20e682a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: *CIVIC Bangalore* * **invites you to a public discussion on*** * Genetically Modified (GM) Food:* *How does this matter to a common man?* * Panelists* * Dr Devinder Sharma* Chairman Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security * Dr P H Ramanjinigowda* Head – Dept of Biotechnology University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore * Dr T M Manjunath * Agri-Biotechnology Consultant & Ex Director – Monsanto Research** * Dr Narayan Reddy* National awardee organic farmer * Date: Monday, 7th December, 2009 * *Time: 3PM to 6PM* *Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists (IAT) * *Queen's Road, Bangalore 560052.* * * *ALL ARE WELCOME* * * *Programme schedule:* *3 PM - Tea* *3.30 PM to 4.30 PM: Panel discussion* *4.30 PM to 6 PM: Open house* ***Background:* On 14th October 2009, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) granted permission to Indian farmers to grow a transgenic version of Brinjal (Bt Brinjal). A day later, Mr. Jairam Ramesh, India’s Minister for Environment and Forests, said that permission for its cultivation will be given only after consulting “all stakeholders”. Mr. Ramesh says that the ministry will seek public comments until the end of the year and that he “will have a series of consultations with scientists, agriculture experts, farmers’ organizations, consumer groups and NGOs” in January and February 2010 before deciding whether to go forward with the permission. There are various views floated by scientists, industry, farmers and consumer groups on the pros and cons of GM food crops. We believe that the ultimate user, the consumer, needs to know more – from both the sides. This public discussion will attempt to answer the following questions from the perspective of scientists, farmers/growers, industry and consumers: - What are GM food crops? What is their relevance for a common man or consumer? - Do we need GM food crops in India? Will they help eradicate hunger? - How safe is GM food? Has it been fully tested for its safety for human and animal consumption? - Are the regulatory systems fool-proof enough to ensure total bio safety? - How is it faring in other countries? - What is Karnataka State’s position on this? *The above distinguished speakers will throw more light on the issues involved and answer the common man.* *CIVIC Bangalore* is an organisation working on urban issues since 1992. It is a neutral platform for discussion and dialogue between public agencies and people. Address: #6, Kasturi Apts., 35/23 Langford Rd. Cross, Shanthinagar, Bangalore 560025 Ph: 080-22110584, Telefax: 080-41144126 Email: info at civicspace.in Website: www.civicspace.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/attachments/20091207/effdd6e6/attachment-0001.html