CitySpinning http://cityspinning.org Temporary Architecture Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:27:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recipes for Urban Conversations @ 1 shanthi road

At Recipes for Urban Conversation we wish to come together and share individual experiences with making and organising art in the public sphere from a local and global perspective.

We’re interested in the difficulties, successes, the short and long term effects and reactions, contradictions and…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/12/recipes-for-urban-conversations-1-shanthi-road/ Say hello to the new site!

The new CitySpinning website is now open! Old posts and images are being imported slowly, so things might be a bit rough right now.

A lot of new projects and collaborations, which have gone unannounced so-far will now be put up here.

Thanks…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/12/say-hello-to-the-new-site/ City At Siege @ 1 shanthi road Madhu D’s project at CitySpinning was shown at the 1 shanthi road gallery on the 28th and 29th (November 09).

The show, called “City At Siege” was a part of Suresh Jayram’s curatorial programme on art engaging with issues around Bangalore City’s development…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/12/city-at-siege-1-shanthi-road/ Madhu D @ CitySpinning: walking through change and resistance

Madhu D.

Madhu .D was away from Bangalore for six months and when he returned he couldn’t recognize his city. “The accelerated change and erasures are inevitable here, the city seems like a construction site, a battle ground of change and resistance,…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/11/madhu-d-cityspinning-walking-through-change-and-resistance/ Reciprocating Memories: invited projects at the POROUS CITY site in Thippasandra

Porous City @ Thippasandra invited artists and architects from Bangalore to respond to the site with project concepts. The following projects were developed across conversations with the artists, relating their projects to the space, context and the curatorial theme (to read…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/09/invited-projects-at-the-porous-city-site-in-thippasandra/ Rewind Replay, playing forgotten games, 3rd-9th September 09

The idea for Rewind Replay was shared by Deepak Srinivasan at Maraa and Rashmi Gopal. Deepak took me along to meet Rashmi and after talking, playing and drinking tea together, we decided to host these playing sessions.

Then Meeta and Pallavi met…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/09/rewind-replay-playing-forgotten-games-3rd-9th-september-09/ CitySpinning in Time Out Bangalore, August 09 The current issue of Time Out Bangalore carries a story by Jaideep Sen on the numerous community-art projects in the city which engage with public spaces in different ways. It features a lot of CitySpinning’s ongoing work, especially the invitation I and…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/09/cityspinning-in-time-out-bangalore-august-09/ Mathinahalli: Playing With Stories, a festival of exchange from 26-30 August 09 WHEN: 26-30th August 09

Mathinahalli: playing with stories was a festival of exchange and mutual gestures designed to document the neighbourhood’s stories about childhood, play and the city at large. These stories will help in capturing the evolution and dynamism in the…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/08/mathinahalli-playing-with-stories-a-festival-of-exchange-from-26-30-august-09/ Eating Value: exchange economics in the neighbourhood The Eating Value workshop happened at the Porous City camp at a construction site in Thippasandra. Eating Value was a way of opening up concepts of the economy, value and entrepreneurship for children through food, exchange and storytelling.

The workshop in-turn led to Mathinahalli: Playing…

]]> http://cityspinning.org/2009/08/eating-value-exchange-economics-in-the-neighbourhood-day-1/ Stepping into Thippasandra, expanding the porous city

The physical act of occupying a vacant construction site in a residential neighborhood is seen like setting up a basecamp in a forest,

    ACT 1: cleaning, clearing ACT 2: fencing, bridging ACT 3: locating water and energy source ACT 5: space…
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