Dec 16, 2021
“There is this informal inhabitation of spaces of heritage within the walled city that actually subverted the original intent of the buildings, however, they helped in the social economic development of the spaces that were being inhabited.”
The exodus that followed the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 caused...
Dec 2, 2021
“It's far easier to protest the statue than a statute, which is to say that power that lives through policy institutions embedded into practices made across generations are hard to dive into.”
In our effort to question the premise of this season’s three central themes: preservation, restoration and conservation,...
Nov 18, 2021
“It's really hard to preserve the community. Easier to preserve buildings.”
Our guest today is a writer and uses the power of the written word to raise awareness, drive change and create accountability. She often writes about preservation – most notably focusing on the African-American history of Philadelphia and...
Nov 4, 2021
“But if all you can see is this frozen façade, that's the period that you're choosing to keep the public appearance of the building as, which doesn't really create any meaningful dialogue between the old and the new.”
Facadism or facadism practices, as Clemency Gibbs refers to them, stand for “privileging of the...
Oct 21, 2021
“Pyaavs today really could be instigators and facilitators mainly as drinking water fountains [but] at the same time also create a cultural connect and socio-cultural tourism.”
Not too long before potable water became a commodity that could be bought and sold, its presence in the Indian urban infrastructure as...