Land dreams
LandDreams [land-dreams] noun, verb
- noun: Realized or unrealized aspirations of land.
- verb: The act of imagining urealized desires; in terms of functional uses or aesthetic.
Unemployed plots of land dream of things that they can do, how they can look, forms they can take. When they are actively traded and utilized in the market and society, only a narrow range of functions get performed on them. They, on the other hand remain unfilled.
Because, how they see themselves as is a a lot more colourful, open, social and adventureous. The markets binds the land in the roles it wants it to play.
The market has crashed. A lot of land is now unemployed. The market doesn’t have the resources to employ it or speculate on it. For now, some land owns its own future. And so, it is dreaming. It is dreaming of what it can be. In many different ways. I am channeling these dreams and giving them a temporary life. This story is called LandDreams, a verb and a noun. LandDreams is a part of the Porous City effort.
The first plot of land whose dreams I am channeling is the University Women’s Association, Bangalore (UWAB) property in New Thippasandra – the UWAB’s site for a working women’s hostel (see a map here). This is what the land looks like right now:
Nisha Nair and I am working on a temporary cloth and rope structure at the site for the first meeting of the YourTime Club.
You will see more of the dreams here as they take shape.
Tags: bangalore, land project, land re use proposals, LandDreams, real estate, urban spaces
Apr 12, 2009
hello there,
i read about your wonderful initative in the papers..and i want to congtraulate you guys on this brilliant begining!! The idea of transforming & enlivening the dark patches n niches of the CITY that read like halted Contrcution sites, is truly imaginative, to beginwith.
.i am an independently practising architect interested in whole lot of things….one of my wishes(dreams ) has been to see every individul who can, giving some of his/her time twrds teaching or education…wondering if the sites for ‘your time club’, can also become generators of learning /play spaces for whole lot of, say construction community kids for eg..
heres hoping all your wonderful “landreams” to materiale…:)
meeta
Apr 19, 2009
Hi Meeta, thanks for your comments! creating learning/play spaces would be wonderful and in fact that was one of the things that came up in the meeting at the plot in Thippasandra. Would be great if you have the time to work with me on the a temporary structure for the plots of land sometime !
May 01, 2009
Hey Prayas.
I have got the fair idea about the site and this initiative.
As we had discussed, We can definitely use the paper-tubes to come up with interesting surfaces along with ambient lighting.
I’m quite enthusiastic about it.