Workshop on Bangalore’s ‘Great Transformation’
National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) Indian Institute of Science Campus Bengaluru – 560012
Venue: Lecture Hall, NIAS
Programme
Friday, June 24
9.30 - 10.00 Coffee and registration
9.45 - 10.00 Welcome and Opening Statement Carol Upadhya (NIAS), Michael Goldman (University of Minnesota)
10.00 - 11.30 Bengaluru’s Rural-Urban Interface Chair: Michael Goldman
Regulatory Arbitrage: Politics of Land and Water in Peri-Urban Bangalore Sai Balakrishnan (Harvard University Graduate School of Design)
Branding Urbanization in Karnataka: Information Flows and the ‘Right to the City to Come’ in Peri-urban Areas Swetha Rao Dhananka (Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bengaluru)
Migration by Small-holders in Karnataka – Favorable or Distressing? Seema Purushothaman, Sheetal Patil and Siddhartha Lodha (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)
11.30 - 11.45 Tea break
11.45 - 1.15 Urban Planning and Governance Chair: Leo Saldanha (Environment Support Group, Bengaluru)
Where Lays this City? Locating Bengaluru’s Cities and Regions through its Planning Projects Champaka Rajagopal (Urban Planner, Bengaluru)
Urban Development and New Institutional Architectures in Peri-urban Bangalore Mathew Idiculla (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)
Islands of Excellence: The Corporatization of Urban Space in Bangalore Nicole Rigillo (Université du Québec à Montréal)
1.15 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 3.45 Contested Commons Chair: Gautam Bhan (Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bengaluru)
Losing the Commons: Rapid Changes in Gundathopes in Bangalore Seema Mundoli, B Manjunatha and Harini Nagendra (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)
Law, Justice and Contestations on Bangalore’s Streets Vinay Sreenivasa (Alternative Law Forum, Bengaluru)
An (Un)emotional Protest: Exploring the Politics of Emotions in Recent Bengaluru Protests Rashmi Munikempanna (Bengaluru)
The Venkatappa Art Gallery Controversy: Bangalore as a Creative City Sumitra Sundar (NIAS)
3.45 - 4.00 Tea break
4.00 - 5.00 Break-out groups
5.00 - 5.30 Open discussion
5.30 - 6.00 Coffee
6.00 - 8.00 Evening public event: Whose City? Public Space, Protest, Art Chair: Smriti Srinivas (University of California, Davis)
Looking beneath the Rubble: A Presentation Based on the Documentary Our Metropolis Gautam Sonti and Usha Rao (Bengaluru)
Look after your Belongings: The Side-walk Speaks When Forbidden Creatures Occupy the Park Angarika Guha and Ram Bhat (Maraa, Bengaluru)
The Art in Transit Project Shivani Seshadri and Siddhanth Shetty (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru)
Saturday, June 25
9.30 - 11.00 Making a Living in the Global City Chair: Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota)
An Overview of the Economy of Bangalore Sharadini Rath (Indian School of Political Economy, Pune)
Bangalore: Unskilled Workers, Employment and Livelihoods Supriya Roy-Choudhury (Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru)
Exploring Nayandahalli as an Ecosystem Where Waste is Transformed into Resource Nalini Shekar, Kabir Arora, Pinky Chandran (Hasiru Dala and other waste-pickers’ organisations)
11.00 - 11.15 Tea break
11.15 - 12.45 Changing Urban Landscapes and Environments Chair: Harini Nagendra
Terrain and Urbanisation: An Analysis of Surface Water Supply, and Phases of Urbanisation in Bengaluru City N.S. Nalini (NIAS)
Rethinking Urban Resilience: Water and Socio-Environmental Change in the Peripheries of Bangalore Bejoy K. Thomas (ATREE, Bengaluru)
Soil, Concrete, and Grass: Surface Ecologies of Urban Landscapes Meera Baindur (MCPH, Manipal University)
12.45 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 3.30 New Urban Cultures Chair: Carol Upadhya
The Digital Transformation? Kavitha Narayanan, Onkar Hoysala and Janaki Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore)
The Electronic Culture of Mobile Phones: Digital Offline Economy of Bangalore Rashmi M. (NIAS)
Who and Where is Queer Bangalore: Worlding Sexuality in a Global City Scott Sorrell (Cornell University)
3.30 - 3.45 Tea break
3.45 - 4.45 Break-out groups
4.45 - 5.30 Open discussion and closing