Documentation (panels, video, audio) of the Petpuja and Canopy projects is up at the CUBE gallery as a part of Futuresonic, a festival of music, art and ideas held in Manchester, UK from the 13th to the 23rd May, 09.
“Futuresonic is an…
A sign board promoting the CANOPY project is a part of Make Then Love You in Chennai. This is what my sign might look like. Might because the signs are going to be hand-painted by a film-poster painter and the “loss in…
A profile of CANOPY/PetPuja installed at the 48c festival on NDTV Metronation. Thanks to Abhas for recording this on his Neuros.
Some pictures of CANOPY at Jama Masjid. At Jama Masjid, we had daily workshops for children from 12 noon to 2:00 p.m. The workshop was led by Azam and Sonu from Jamghat.
The first day of the workshop was introduction to…
About the “PetPuja” installation at the 48c public art festival in Delhi.
CANOPY is installed at Chandni Chowk and Jama Masjid as part of 48C, a public art festival in Delhi.
The plants growing in the baskets are: tomato, eggplant, cabbage, chillies, lemon grass, adulsa and tulsi.
I will be posting some conversations/stories which…
Across the last few days I made a second prototype of the CANOPY@ChandniChowk with the help of Ajay Mayekar, Dhaval Shellugar and Rutwik Sath, who are architects from Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi, the school of architecture in Mumbai.
Vaibhav Kaley, Vir Singh…
If you live in New Delhi and have a kitchen garden, vegetable patch, or just happen to grow a few vegetables on your own, this is an invitation to you to share some of your plants.
As part of the CANOPY,…
Last week, before leaving for Delhi, I made and tested a prototype of the first canopy in Bangalore. I designed this with Kiran Kakde’s help. Kiran is Rashmi Kakde’s brother who lives and works in Dubai.
It was made by Nizamuddin…
an introductory graphic for the project
Often it is just a question of putting one up.
But after it is stretched a claim is made.
And accepted.
A claim to shade. A livelihood. Space on the street. Protection from rain.
And then in some months,…
