Peri-Urban Water Management in Gujarat

The students’ work produced at the end of the summer workshop “Peri-Urban Water Management in Gujarat” will be re-installed, starting November 7, at Avery’s 200 Level. It includes scrolls, videos and collages outlining narratives and rituals related to water, exploring the significance of the ponds in villages surrounding the rapidly expanding city of Ahmedabad. This material was first presented last August with the title “We Stand in a Crisis with Water” on the third floor of Le Corbusier’s Ahmedabad Textile Mills Association (ATMA). The vast space was approached as a verandah between the historical city and peri-urban areas, focusing on the brise-soleil’s threshold that faces the once monsoon-flooded Sabarmati river, now bounded in concrete as an artificial pond.

For more information about this Summer Workshop, please see here.

The exhibition closing reception will take place on Avery 100 on November 30th from 6-8pm.