India is in the throes of a dramatic pro-
cess of accelerated urbanisation. By
2030, 40% of the country’s billion-plus
population will probably live in cities.
The majority of India’s new urban dwell-
ers will be underprivileged and suffer
deficits of opportunity and entitlement.
A key issue at stake in this emergent
scenario, therefore, will be the delivery
of adequate housing and infrastructure.
India currently records an urban hous-
ing shortage of approximately 18 million
units in the urban centres and it is
believed to be 40 million in rural India.
In the urban areas of the 18 million
deficit, 56% are for the economically
disadvantaged sections, and 40% for
low-income groups.
Despite this clear and present crisis,
there is little sustained discussion on
housing, whether in the nation’s public
life or within the professions of archi-
tecture and planning. Few attempts
have been made to bring together the
varied interests, perspectives, and
contexts that inform an understanding
of Housing in India, which straddles a
spectrum of stakeholders and actors
including architects, urban designers,
planners, local governance bodies, pri-
vate real-estate developers, financial
institutions and policy-makers. The
exhibition titled: State of Housing — As-
pirations, Imaginaries and Realities in
India aims to develop a conspectus of
this crisis; and to create an integrated
database of case studies and methods
enabling a comprehensive understand-
ing of the situation.
The closing conference Housing in the
Emerging Urban India will attempt tobroaden this discussion and explore
the following themes:
The Emerging Urban: With growing
Indian cities and a dramatic increase
in urban population, the crisis of hous-
ing seems to be getting worse. In this
context of a rapidly changing urban
landscape, how is housing imagined by
both the government and private sector?
Homelessness: Cities in India are in
constant flux which involves the dis-
placement of people and migration.
Often due to social and economic ine-
qualities this migrant population is
marginalised and rendered homeless.
How could architects and planners
respond to this condition?
Housing and Urbanisation: Housing is
directly dependent on land, mobility,
livelihood, social networks, and other
variable that create an urban ecology.
But the production of housing today
seems to have ignored these essential
components — can these critical con-
nections be reclaimed?
Delivery of Housing: What are the modes
of delivering housing beyond the public
and private sectors?
Emerging Paradigms: What are the
emerging patterns in resolving the
housing crisis in India that addresses
the rate of urbanisation and also ac-
count for the needs of the community?The closing conference will be held from
15-17 March 2018 at the Dr. Sir J J Modi
Memorial Hall, K R Cama Oriental In-
stitute, Fort, Mumbai, 9:00 am onwards.
The keynote lecture by Arjun Appadurai
will be held on 15 March at 6:30 pm at
the same venue.The Death of Architecture; Circa 2000’is
a traveling exhibition assembled by 13
of India’s thinking and concerned design
practices. Through evocative artworks,
poetry and prose, the exhibition decodes
and amplifies actions some which are
orchestrated, others inconsiderate.
Actions that slowly tear and restructure
the fabric of our cities and the archi-
tecture within and along with that,
impact our sense of being.
The exhibition presents evidence that
will allow discussions about our present,
and yet at the same time is embedded
with clues and signs that can help effect
meaningful dialogues about the future.
In a sense, it consolidates the many
critical discussions that form the dough
which leads to design such as those
about the demise of our cities as we know
it, or the meaning of inspirations from
the past, or ideas of beauty, or duplici-
tous ways of achieving identity, or ways
of understanding spatiality. The exhi-
bition is a strong mirror that will allow
cities and design communities to struc-ture conversations that are pertinent
to their immediate realm and concerns.
The exhibition will travel to Delhi, Chen-
nai, Kochi, Pune, Pondicherry, Kolkata
and Ahmedabad during the course of
the year.
The Mumbai edition of ‘Death of Archi-
tecture: Circa 2000’ will be held at the
Nehru Science Centre, Worli from 23
February to 4 March, 2018. Visit deatho-
farchitecture.com for more details‘State of Housing’ Closing Conference: 15-17 March 2018
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‘Death of Architecture: Circa 2000’ — a travelling exhibition
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15 March - 17 March, 2018
Dr. Sir J J Modi Memorial Hall
K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Fort, Mumbai.
India is in the throes of a dramatic process of accelerated urbanisation. By 2030, 40% of the country’s billion-plus population
will probably live in cities. A key issue at stake in this emergent scenario, therefore, will be the delivery of adequate housing
and infrastructure. India currently records an urban housing shortage of approximately 20 million units, of which 57% are
designated for the economically disadvantaged sections and 40% for low-income groups.
The conference attempts to bring together varied interests, perspectives and contexts that go into understanding
of the state of housing in India, which straddles a spectrum of stakeholders and actors including architects, urban designers, planners,
local governance bodies, private real-estate developers, financial institutions and policy-makers.
Keynote lecture by Arjun Appadurai ‘Urban Housing and Rural Dwelling in India: The Roots of a Gap in Theory and Practice’.
Other speakers include Chris Herbert, Sheela Patel, Martha Chen, Aromar Revi, Jai Sen, Amitabh Kundu, Jagan Shah,
Partha Mukhopadhyay, Vidyadhar Phatak, Bimal Patel, Snehanshu Mukherjee, Pratima Joshi, Gautam Bhan, Neera Adarkar,
Kirtee Shah, A. Srivathsan, Solomon Benjamin, Pratibha Ruth Caleb , PSN Rao, Mohammad Tarique, Rohan Varma, Mukta Naik,
Prasad Shetty, Natasha Iype, Rajesh Krishnan, Satyanarayana Vejella, Pranay Vakil, Mihir Bhatt and Kalpana Sharma.
http://www.stateofhousing.in
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