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PG - MAHT - Studio - 3 | Monsoon 2020 | Changing Identities

Changing Identities

  • Student DESHPANDE ASHWINI UDAY HEMANGI
  • Code PG190199
  • Faculty Architecture
  • Tutor/s Sonal Mithal
  • TA Ashwatha Chandran

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The three modules explore three key aspects of Bengal Partition: 1. History of Calcutta during the 19th century, 2. A building typology typical to bourgeois English lifestyle of the city during 1930s and 3. Bengal partition by analysing Radcliffe Line. By taking identity as the central historiographical position, the palimpsest maps explore the life around jute industry. The second module explores the movies, impressionist paintings and archival readings as tools to analyse typical English house of a jute merchant in the city while the third module dwells on the details of Radcliffe line to create curatorial content beyond state narratives.

Module 1: Introduction to the Palimpsest Mapping
Module 1: Map of Calcutta representing changing river basin and river edge growth
Module 1 : Map of Calcutta representing sites of events: Protests, Strikes and Arm Heists
Module 1: Map of Calcutta representing sites of identity, memory, erasure, conflicts and oppression
Module 2: The Bourgeois House
Module 2
Module 3: Shadow Lines
Module 3: The Surgical Cut
Module 3: Borderland Stories
Module 3: Perceiving the Border