Time, Public and Architecture

Fig 1 Dwij Hirpara Mind-Map Fig 2 Ruhani Adlakha Elements of Architecture - Facade study Fig 3 Ruhani Adlakha Accordion Books Fig 4,5 &6 Garima, Dwij, Vikas ActivityEvent Mapping Fig 7 Prachi Patodia Red Folly Fig 8 Ruhani adlakha Blue Folly Fig 9 Garima Patel Blue Folly Fig 10 Kush Patel Blue Folly Fig 11 Vikas Gajera Blue Folly

Fig 12, 13,14 & 15 Prarthi Marfatiya

Concept Design Posters Fig 16 & 17 Dwij Hirpara Design Proposal for a Municipal Ward Office and Allied Functions

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Faculty of Planning UR2016 Monsoon 2020

Un-Gendering the Everyday City

Sahiba Gulati, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna

Focus: Planning and Organizing Unit Assitant: Abhishek Thakai

Jury Citation

The course examines the highly discriminatory way in which the urban citizen is characterised in the design of urban public space. In particular the way in which women’s needs and rights are routinely ignored. Students examined these issues and describe the transformations necessary to correct these gross defects in urban design. The results are proposals for more humane, inclusive and delightful public spaces vividly drawn and described. This is a very worthwhile course with the potential to expand to explore many aspects of spatial injustice in urban design.

Unit Brief

In India, vehicle ownership usually lies with men, whether it is a car, a twowheeler, or a bicycle, to say nothing of auto-rickshaws. Our cities, however, are imagined around the automobile. How do we imagine a city which recognizes that half of its population does not own a vehicle? How do we imagine a city where half of the population is women? Through research conducted by various authors, ranging from Phadke, Ranade and Khan to Ayona Datta, and personal research, it is apparent that the street as a public space belongs more to a man than a woman.According to Ayona Datta, a woman’s presence in the public street is legitimized by the production of her morality; according to Phadke, Khan and Ranade, women constantly exhibit their purpose to be in public space; they are never there without a reason. The city constantly legitimizes domesticities for women, especially women from poor households. How then does one normalize the presence of a female in the city, and a growing female workforce? How then do we re-imagine the street? And by re-imagining the street, how then do we re-imagine the city itself? The studio focused on three areas of concern in this regard: connectivity, accessibility and right to the city for women,especially those from underserved communities.

2 nd year

Bhoomika Patel Ishika Jain Juhi Desai Moksha Shah Muskan Sood Pooja Shah Sahana Desai

3 rd year

Jasveer Kalsi Akshat Chaturvedi Arundhati Hakhu Bhavya Trivedi Kanisha Patel Naveen Prasad Rajeev Bhagat

Rishabh Jain Yash Shah

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