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Search Workshop 18
December 21-27 | 2018 | Kolkata ‘Search Workshop 18’ on ‘Landscape Urbanism’ was a network of learning through exchanges. Download the Workshop Booklet below. 
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Search Workshop 18
December 21-27 | 2018 | Kolkata
From Adiganga to Tolly Nullah...
Kolkata, as an ‘ecologically subsidised city’, has subsequently become vulnerable to imminent ecological changes. The negligence of the urban ecosystems, especially water bodies (rivers, canals, wetlands, etc.) over the years has led Tolly’s Canal facing such unfortunate reality with catastrophic urban environmental implications.
The Workshop shed light on the changing trajectories of the Tolly’s Canal using archival research, ethnographic findings and transect walks. Further, taking inputs frommulti-disciplinary intellectual exchanges, the Workshop attempted to evolve effective recommendation strategies and design ideas to revitalise this disrupted and degraded network as an environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive space.
The workshop deliberated to evolve concepts and ideas with an idea to revitalize canal-side spaces in context of Tolly Nullah as environmentally suitable and socially inclusive urban landscape of Kolkata. It focussed on the changing trajectories of drain-age channel using archival research, ethnographic findings and transect walks, with inputs from multi-disciplinary intellectual exchanges to revitalise the disrupted and degraded canal network. It intended to set a framework to observe and recognise an engaging relationship between the city and its landscape. With exchanges and inputs from the city's government officials, academics, environmental activists, corporate strategists and students from India and Bangladesh, it explored implementable con-cepts to make the canal edges active, effective and appealing. It was observed that Kolkata’s regeneration is intrinsically linked to the revival of its waterways. (Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 57, 2019).
December 21-27 | 2018 | Kolkata
From Adiganga to Tolly Nullah...
Kolkata, as an ‘ecologically subsidised city’, has subsequently become vulnerable to imminent ecological changes. The negligence of the urban ecosystems, especially water bodies (rivers, canals, wetlands, etc.) over the years has led Tolly’s Canal facing such unfortunate reality with catastrophic urban environmental implications.
The Workshop shed light on the changing trajectories of the Tolly’s Canal using archival research, ethnographic findings and transect walks. Further, taking inputs frommulti-disciplinary intellectual exchanges, the Workshop attempted to evolve effective recommendation strategies and design ideas to revitalise this disrupted and degraded network as an environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive space.
The workshop deliberated to evolve concepts and ideas with an idea to revitalize canal-side spaces in context of Tolly Nullah as environmentally suitable and socially inclusive urban landscape of Kolkata. It focussed on the changing trajectories of drain-age channel using archival research, ethnographic findings and transect walks, with inputs from multi-disciplinary intellectual exchanges to revitalise the disrupted and degraded canal network. It intended to set a framework to observe and recognise an engaging relationship between the city and its landscape. With exchanges and inputs from the city's government officials, academics, environmental activists, corporate strategists and students from India and Bangladesh, it explored implementable con-cepts to make the canal edges active, effective and appealing. It was observed that Kolkata’s regeneration is intrinsically linked to the revival of its waterways. (Journal of Landscape Architecture, Issue 57, 2019).
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Distinguished Speakers
Subrata Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary UDMA, Govt. of WB Sanjay Bansal, IAS, KMDA Dr Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Director, IIT Kharagpur Mentors and Speakers Dr Amita Sinha, UoI Urbana-Champaign Anjan Mitra, Kolkata Ashok Bhattacharjee, New Delhi Dr Asit K. Roy, Kolkata Jayant Basu, Kolkata Dr Jenia Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur Dr Mainak Ghosh, JU Kolkata Mohit Ray, Kolkata Dr Nilina Deb Lal, Kolkata Sandeep Menon, KRVIA Mumbai Saurabh Popli, SPA Bhopal Saurabh Tewari, SPA Bhopal Srinjay Sarma, Delhi Subhadip Biswas, Kolkata Dr Suchandra Bardhan, JU Kolkata Dr Suptendu P. Biswas, New Delhi Vina Verghese Biswas, New Delhi Knowledge Partner VSPB Associates www.vspbassociates.com |
Participants
Abhranil Munsi, Cuttack Akshat Jain, Gwalior Anik Ghosh, Kolkata Anjana Das, Bhopal Anshika Sharma, Bhopal Archana Das, Jaipur Archita Chatterjee, Kolkata Devkanya Bose, Kolkata Dipankar Guha, Kolkata Gunraagh Singh Talwar, Bhopal Himani Airan, Bengaluru Kanak Kanti Saha, Dhaka Kripa Jain, Mumbai Md Raisul Mostafa Sajib, Dhaka Nayna Tabassum, Dhaka Neha Tabassum, Delhi Nida Hasan, Faridabad Rhiddhit Paul, Bhopal Rishika Mondal, Kolkata Sarjana Afroz, Dhaka Simita Roy, Dhaka Surajit Das, Kolkata Swanand Mahashabde, Mumbai Tarita Roy Choudhury, Kolkata Urnaba D Roy, Bhubaneswar Vyusti Agarwalla, Mumbai Zeeshan Ibrar, Delhi |
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