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Brown Bag Lecture: Politics of Data in India
INVITATION Brown Bag Lecture 21. June 2016, 12am @ TU Berlin, Habitat Unit, Institute for Architecture, A 53, Strasse des 17. Juni 152, 10623 Berlin MOD Institute in cooperation with Habitat Unit invites you to join the Brown Bag Lecture. Sumandro Chattapadhyay, The Centre for Internet and Society, and Sarai Program Delhi will talk about…
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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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Experiment Stadtalltag
Zukunftsstudio Hamburg Neighborhood and Protest Hohe Mieten, fehlende Wohnungen und die Hoffnung auf die Zivilgesellschaft: In Hamburg gerät Nachbarschaft immer weiter unter Druck – und wird dabei immer mehr zur Lösung. So hat sich die Stadt die Reputation erarbeitet, nur mit und unter großem Protest die Probleme einer wachsenden Stadt angehen und lösen zu können.…
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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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Urban Seismograph
From 11.06. – 13.06.2015 the first Urban Seismograph seminar took place at Universität Kassel. Inititated by Prof. Uwe Altrock, Julian Petrin and Tristan Lannuzel (Universität Kassel Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning) the three-day intensive workshop focussed on the future of Kassel, a city in Nothern Hesse, Germany. Along with a group of students, three…
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OUT NOW: People’s Vision on Future Shanthinagar
OUT NOW PEOPLE’S VISION ON FUTURE SHANTHINAGAR Reflecting on a collective three months process of addressing urban questions in on one of the loveliest neighbourhoods in Bengaluru; this book is both a map and a collection of ideas, visions and reports. Everything you see in this publication reflects upon what has happened so far in…
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COCINET Workshop Berlin
Co-op City NETwork (COCINET) Workshop January 26-28, 2015 TU Berlin, Habitat Unit Following the three regional COCINET-workshops in Dar es Salaam, Rio and Bengaluru, Berlin is host to three-day international COCINET workshop. The question of affordable housing for low-income groups has been recognized as one of the key challenges in the global discussion on the…
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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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Nextbengaluru Gatishil Space
The first phase of the Nextbengaluru Gatishil Space in Rhenius Street, Shanthinagar has ended due to a short Christmas break. We will re-open in January 2015! Between 03 Dec and 19 Dec 2014 the doors were open daily and welcomed more than 700 visitors and citizens of Bengaluru. Several special events were hosted in the…
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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…