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BENGALURU UPDATE – An Arrival City Story
INVITATION BENGALURU UPDATE! An Arrival City Story. 12. February 2016, 18.00h CLB Berlin, Aufbau Haus, Moritzplatz, 10969 Berlin Bengaluru – the capital of Karnataka is globally known as the Indian Silicon Valley. Less obvious and less know is the process of transformation set in motion by migration. Within the last years the transformation of the…
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Out Now: OK – Otto Koenigsberger. Architecture and Urban Visions in India
OUT NOW! OK – Otto Koenigsberger: Architecture and Urban Visions in INDIA Editors: Tile von Damm, Anne-Katrin Fenk & Rachel Lee © 2015 TAG Press, Liverpool / MOD Institute, Bengaluru/Berlin Paperback, 115 pages, 59 images Cat.No. MOD 001 ISBN: 978-1-910911-05-1 We are very pleased to announce the release of the book “OK – Otto Koenigsberger:…
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Book Launch: OK INDIA – Otto Koenigsberger
Book Launch: OK INDIA – Otto Koenigsberger: Architecture and Urban Visions in India Edited By Tile von Damm, Anne-Katrin Fenk & Rachel Lee, MOD Institute. MOD Institute, in cooperation with the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Bengaluru, is delighted to invite you to the launch of the book on Otto Koenigsberger. Thursday,…
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Walking Tour: Building Bangalore in the 1940s
Walking Tour: Otto Koenigsberger: Building Bangalore in the 1940’s By Rachel Lee, MOD Institute Thursday, 3 September 2015 Tour Start Point: 1:00 p.m. at the Pavilion in M. N. Krishna Rao Park Tour End Point: 5:00 p.m. at IISc CCS To register, contact: +919880347794 OR 080-49000812-ext 836 cph@srishti.ac.in Otto Koenigsberger (1908 -1999) was Government Architect of…
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ETIC Conference: Envisioning the Indian City
ETIC Conference–“Envisioning the Indian City: People, Places, Plans” International Conference Envisioning the Indian City: People, Places, Plans Centre of Advanced Study, Department of English, Jadavpur University Monday 17th – Tuesday 18th August 2015 HL Roy Memorial Auditorium, near Gate No. 3, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Envisioning the Indian City (ETIC) is a UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership Project…
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Heritage Party: Let’s paint the KOTE red
Let’s paint the KOTE red! On the night of Friday July 24th 2015, the old fort of Bengaluru, the KOTE, will come alive – and you are warmly invited to be a part of this! Bangalore is a modern and vibrant city that moves with great pace and rapid strides into the future. But…
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Indian Architecture
Tea Talk @ the Indian Filmfestival Stuttgart Indische Architektur – eine offene Debatte Eventraum, Metropol Kino 16.00 – 18.00 Uhr Referenten Anne-Katrin Fenk Rachel Lee (MOD Institute) Die Geschichte der Indischen Moderne, der Architektur, der Diskurse und Stadtprojekte ist eine Geschichte voller Überraschungen, Konflikte und Innovationen. Obwohl der Bau der Stadt Chandigarh unter Le Corbusier…
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Arrival and Continuance – Inclusive Cities
Tile von Damm (MOD Institute) and Martin Kohler (HafenCityUniversity Hamburg) will give a seminar on “Arrival and Continuance – Design for Inclusive Cities” at the Heterotopia Institut für transdisziplinäre Gestaltung. The seminar at 17.06.2015 is part the lectures series “Advanced Basics” by Prof. Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius (raumlaborberlin, Folkwang University of Arts).
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MOD @ TRENDIN.com
Watch MOD co-founder Naresh Narasimhan in a short interview at Trendin.com.
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Co-op Workshop on Affordable Housing
Co-op City NETwork (COCINET) Workshop January 22nd, 2015 IIHS Bangalore City Campus This one-day expert workshop in Bengaluru is hosted by IIHS, Habitat Unit @ TU-Berlin and MOD Institute following similar regional meetings in Rio de Janeiro and Dar-es-Salaam. By bringing together experts from South Asia & Southeast Asia, the aim is to find common…
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Urban Voids in Shanthinagar
The availability of accessible and open spaces in cities is a highly important topic. In addition, there is an inceasing demand in Bengaluru to improve open spaces by the citizens, as a growing number of feedback within Nextbengaluru shows. During the first phase of the Nextbengaluru Space in Rhenius Street, Shanthinagar, MOD Institute have started…
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New Publication: Affordable Living
Out Now: Klaus Dömer, Hans Drexler, Joachim Schultz-Granberg (ed.): “Affordable Living – Housing for Everyone”, Jovis. The affordable housing issue is seen as an economic and as a political problem, leading to widespread discussion of economic policy measures to relieve it, such as funding for social housing, fixed rents, and financing and amortization models. The…
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Nextbangalore @ The Bangalore Mirror
Nextbangalore @ The Bangalore Mirror (04 Nov 14): http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/others/Wanted-Crowdsourced-master-plan/articleshow/45028336.cms
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Nextbangalore: Visions For Heritage
In the last 10 years, Bengaluru has lost nearly 1000 old heritage buildings, both private and state-owned, to demolition. If we are to save the remaining, like the Balabrooie guesthouse, we must first know where and what they are. If you know a building or a precinct that you think must be conserved as part of Bengaluru’s…
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Invitation: Lecture Information+Visualization
Invitation: Lecture by Anne-Katrin Fenk on Information+Visualization | Politik der (un)sichtbaren Stadt” at FH Potsdam, 02. Juli 2014, 18.00h. Urbanisierungsprozesse sind komplex. Finden sie zudem noch in einem anderen Kulturraum statt, so wird dies aufgrund kultureller Einschreibungen noch verstärkt. Auf der Suche nach einer Antwort auf die Frage – Was ist Stadt? – werden vermehrt…