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SHEHER _ISSUE#2_JUNE
CONTENTS
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NURTURING THE COMMONS
RESPONSE FOR AND BY THE CITIES
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Nidhi Batra | Guest Column
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THE CHANGEMAKERS:
IN COVERSATION WITHMriganka Saxena | Puneet Khanna
The ‘new normal’
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IT’S SOMETHING IN THE AIR
HOW THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HEALED ASIA’S TOXIC AIRAnn Sandra Godly
POST-PANDEMIC CITYSCAPES
29 Srishti Prabhakar
POST-PANDEMIC PUBLIC SPACES
33 MoizUddin
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Abhishek Singh Yadav
URBAN DISTANCING
HOW HUMANS DISCONNECTED FROM EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM
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Lockdown reflections
BIRDING IN TIMES OF COVID
45 Piyush Sekhsaria
THE PANDEMIC PICKLE
51 Neha Abbasi
THE PANDEMIC IS A PROMO
53 Batool Fatima
The road to recovery
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RE-STARTING THE ‘ENGINES’
OF ECONOMIC GROWTHVikash Chandra
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Ikra Syed | Nomaan Khan
USING TOOLS OF COMPASSION FOR CRISIS
RESPONSE- A 1000 DAY ACTION PLAN
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ICCCS: TOWARDS SMART MANAGEMENT
Avikarsh Bhatnagar
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RESILIENCE TO COVID-19
THE WAY FORWARD IN A POST PANDEMIC WORLDThe Multilogue Collective
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BELOW| Aerial view of Jama Masjid precinct during second phase of lockdown
PHOTO CREDIT| Sohaib Ilyas
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N Srishti Prabakar |ar.srisht@gmail.com
POST PANDEMIC
CITYSCAPES
The Architecture fraternity plays a vital role in the creation of living and working spaces, and it’s role becomes even more essential in testing times especially the times we currently live in. With a possible extension of the lockdown, the COVID-19 pandemic has left us questioning our existing systems, in order to contribute to it in more meaningful ways, raising an important question, “What does it mean to be an Architect in the ongoing pandemic/post-pandemic situation?”
Architecture has always been shaped by what happens outside a building. Cities are basically socio-technical systems. Global events such as war, disease outbreak, industrialisation and mass migration to urban centres have shaped the evolution of every aspect related to a building ranging from advanced material technology and new construction techniques to protect the inhabitant from what lies outside, to systemic changes in services such as sanitation and energy distribution. In a sense, form has always followed not just function but also fear.
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A man walking up the stairs of Jama Masjid, Old Delhi
PHOTO CREDIT |Sohaib Ilyasi
and vehicles. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, we feel the sting of having lost our familiar, vibrant, social and lively public places. The most crucial part of the situation is uncertainty about what lies ahead and fear that our sense of place and space may be permanently transformed. When we move outside our homes, we observe bizarre and distant social interactions, raising questions about how social relations in public spaces may be changing. Can our public spaces be designed or retrofitted to be equipped with the ‘new normal’? There is huge uncertainty about how COVID-19 will impact future public space design, use and perceptions. How will our relationship with public space change and for how long?. It may take years before we are able to ascertain how the global pandemic has changed the planning and design of public space.
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A street market in Kalaw, Myanmar, has adapted brilliantly to the need for physical distancing
PHOTO CREDIT|Chan Myae Aung.
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LOCKDOWN
REFLECTIONS
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Avikarsh Bhatnagar |avikarshbhatnagarr@gmail.com
Ikra Syed |ikrasyed@gmail.com
Nomaan Khan |nkhan.c@jmi.ac.in
USING TOOLS OF COMPASSION FOR
CRISIS RESPONSE – A 1000 DAY ACTION PLAN
Hereafter, at the close of this global crises, we are going to observe a sea change in the urban planning and design discourse. The academia and professionals will discuss design and strategies for the world in an analogy between pre pandemic and those of post pandemic. If we speak of academia and professionals of the urban context, they will surely focus on the articulation of spaces by using built environment aspects such as building design, public spaces, streets, mobilityand landscape. Design elements and tools that are coming up as a
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|themultiloguedelhi@gmail.com
RESILIENCE TO COVID-19
THE WAY FORWARD IN A
POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
THE MULTILOGUE COLLECTIVE
India is the second-most populous country in the world. Lying within geographical proximity to the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, China, a response to the spread of the virus was implemented by the enforcement of stringent movement restrictions through a lockdown. In a gargantuan effort to develop infrastructure to cope with an unforeseen peril, the country has witnessed innovations along with huge challenges to augment defensive strategies to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has now taken hold of almost the entire world.
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