IIT-Bombay. Indian urbanism, justice, infrastructure, architecture. Space for Engagement https://tinyurl.c. Urban Parallax. makebreak.tiss.edu
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1 Sep 2023
My paper on the role of planning in Mumbai's differential verticalisation, part of a fascinating special issue on radical verticality, is out online. Special thanks to the generous and insightful guest editors including @CasperLaing for amazing support!
1 Sep 2023
Latest research from @hburte discusses four distinct #planning induced verticalisations in #Mumbai by interrelating issues of power, volume and intentionality #inequality #planning ow.ly/yu6G50PESMI
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2 Dec 2024
The Writing Urban India Fellowship 3.0 Applications are now open! If you are an urban practitioner, PhD candidate, or junior faculty working on the urban question, this is for you.
2 Dec 2024
Call for Applications | NLSIU invites applications for the third iteration of the Writing Urban India Fellowship.
Duration of the fellowship: 10 months
Application Deadline: December 25, 2024
Find out more and apply here: nls.ac.in/news-events/call-f…
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15 Oct 2024
SOAS's @FabioGygi is at @japanhouseldn this Saturday speaking about copies, replicas, and reproductions in Japan. The symposium includes a film screening, a keynote by a Japanese historian, and a panel with anthropologists and art historians.
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15 Nov 2023
Faculty Forum of IIT Bombay protests targeting of a faculty member with unbiased allegation and for publicly tarnishing of reputation. @iitbombay
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16 Nov 2023
An upcoming panel on our recent special feature in @CITYanalysis on the structural violence of spatial transformation of cities in the global south. Thanks @iihsin for hosting it! @elkamath @MPenpecioglu @seth_schindler
15 Nov 2023
Join the discussion on 21 November, 6pm IST, online on Zoom: bit.ly/3QwB964
@hburte @elkamath @MPenpecioglu @seth_schindler
#IIHS #IIHS_Publics #IIHS_Research #SpatialTransformation
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15 Nov 2023
The next Publics@IIHS brings together the editors and chapter contributors of the special feature, 'The structural violence of spatial transformation: urban development and the more-than-neoliberal state in the Global South', curated for City Journal.
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24 Oct 2023
City 27.3-4: Special Feature - Free Access
Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Seth Schindler & Mehmet Penpecioğlu
Structural violence and the urban politics of hope in Ankara, Turkey
doi.org/10.1080/13604813.202…
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15 Aug 2023
Publication alert! The special issue of @CITYanalysis about the structural violence of spatial transformation of cities in the global south that @elkamath and I edited is up online! Here's our introduction, open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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15 Aug 2023
Fabulous articles about Ankara, Durban, Mumbai and Rio, by Amita Bhide, Ratoola Kundu, Shivani Satija, Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ @seth_schindler @MPenpecioglu, Brij Maharaj, Pedro Novais, Camilla Lobino. It's been deeply satisfying working on this, and full of learning!
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15 Jun 2023
This was so enjoyable and enriching! Yes, we need more such workshops to help good research in India get published. There's lots of it out there. Thanks to fab young scholars and co-mentors @karencoelho12 @amaringanti Lalitha Kamath and Lakshmi Subramanian for a great time!
15 Jun 2023
Spent an energising and fun 5 days at the Writing to Publish workshop at ICJ Goa sponsored by Urban Studies Journal and RUA-EPW. Many more of these are needed! @USJ_online @epw_rua @amaringanti @hburte
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9 Apr 2023
A wonderful opportunity for scholars with papers just waiting to be written.
8 Apr 2023
#Thread | We are announcing a five-day residential "Writing to Publish" workshop in Goa in the second week of June 2023.
Deadline for the initial application: 10th April, 2023.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/Applyhere2023
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17 Dec 2022
Deadline, round the corner!
16 Dec 2022
Here are some details for the potential applicants of the ‘Writing Urban India Fellowship'?
Deadline for submitting the applications is 18 December 2022 (Sunday), 11.59 pm.
Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #fellowship #writing
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5 Dec 2022
Apply!
4 Dec 2022
.@CPRUrban in collaboration with Writing Urban India Collective has launched the 2nd round of 'Writing Urban India Fellowship' for early stage researchers to advance publishable writing on urbanisation in India.
Apply now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
#ApplyNow #AcademicTwitter
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30 Nov 2022
.@CPRUrban in collaboration with Writing Urban India Collective is launching the 2nd round of 'Writing Urban India Fellowship' for early stage researchers to advance publishable writing on urbanisation in India.
Applications open soon. Stay Tuned!
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30 Jul 2022
Have you wondered about the human cost of the (patchily) shiny transformation of Mumbai in the last few decades? Read our little essay and do see our exhibition makebreak.tiss.edu/
30 Jul 2022
The Quiet Violence of the Remaking of Mumbai theindiaforum.in/article/qui… @TheIndiaForum
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30 Jul 2022
The Quiet Violence of the Remaking of Mumbai | @hburte Amita Bhide, Lalitha Kamath, and Ratoola Kundu on makebreak @TISSpeak
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2 Jul 2022
Essay: Unbuilding Design
"Every buildable unbuilt design sustains the contradiction between ‘pure design’ and the messiness of reality that produces it, which it must navigate and alter, and which may defeat it occasionally." - @hburte
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10 Jul 2022
READ: Blueprint, The Works of @TheGautamBhatia
"The Works of Gautam Bhatia, is an artist’s testimony about his work, nothing more and nothing less. For that reason alone, it is an unusually welcome event in Indian architectural discourse." - @hburte
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29 Mar 2022
We are pleased to invite you to a book discussion on
Framing Delhi through its Metro system
Ft. Rashmi Sadana, @viswanathkv, Himanshu Burte, @rikshaa, Sarika Panda Bhatt.
Moderated by @MuktaNaik.
Wed, 6th April 2022
6:30 PM IST via Zoom
Register here, zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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1 Feb 2022
On Indian modernity ‘whitespace’ and a call for "recognizing its presence and effect" in the way it implicates space in India. (By @hburte, @IndiaSeminar): india-seminar.com/2022/750/7…
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