"Emerging Exchanges: New Architecture of India" Conference
Cooper Union (7 E 7th Street)
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Economic growth, euphoric urbanism, media technologies, transnational modes of production, as well as new state and social dynamics are challenging India's long-standing modernist ethos, revising notions of culture, identity, practices, and obligations. The Architectural League of New York, the India China Institute of The New School, and Parsons The New School for Design present a two-day conference to address the architectural and urban forms that are emerging as a turbulent "second modernity" rearranges a vast part of the landscape of India. As a theater of these new challenges and conceptualizations, recent works of architecture and planning in India will be explored through presentations by Indian and foreign architects working in India, responses, panel discussions, and a keynote address by Arjun Appadurai. The conference will be structured around two overlapping themes: Material Formations and Territorial Intersections.
Registration is required. Tickets include both days of the conference. For more information and to register and purchase tickets please visit http://archleague.org.
KEYNOTE:
"Architecture and Amnesia in Indian Modernity"
Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor for Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Introduced by Anthony Vidler, Dean, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union
Convened by Kazi Ashraf and Brian McGrath
Participants include: Himanshu Burte, Prem Chandavarkar, Kenneth Frampton, Soumitro Ghosh and Nisha Mathew, Sudhir Jambhekar, Rajeev Kathpalia, Anupama Kundoo, Reinhold Martin, Gurjit Singh Matharoo, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, Rahul Mehrotra, Geeta Mehta, Vyjayanthi Rao, Samira Rathod, Margie Ruddick and Tom Zook, Michael Sorkin, Neerja Tiku, and Billie Tsien and Tod Williams
CONFERENCE SESSIONS:
Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1
9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Theresa Lang Student Center
The New School
55 West 13th Street
Media
Schedule
April 30, 2009 from 19:00
Artist(s)
Arjun Appadurai, Anthony Vidler, Kazi Ashraf, Brian McGrath et al.