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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...
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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).
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
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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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