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Kolkata: Periurban, Post Rural and Rural Intensification
23 April 2025 9:00am – 1:00pm
NUS SDE 3 Level 2, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566 All Welcome
The Kolkata studio is focused on the edge of Kolkata, India. Typically, the edges of cities are thought of as not much more than “becoming urban”. In this studio you will look anew at that assumption by asking the following questions. What can be learnt from thinking about the future from areas where the challenges of urbanisation and agricultural intensification are entangled? What if architects, landscape architects, and urban designers’ practices and projects anticipated the hybrid, urban-rural future? If so, what forms might it take here? Furthermore, can you critique the notion of the urban edge, for processes of urbanisation and are now everywhere? The two important key words here are agricultural intensification, which is
something that is happening worldwide and that we need to participate in. Secondly, the term post rural, which is often overlooked focused on what people do when they stop cultivation and relatedly, the dilapidation but persistence of the settled rural landscape in periurban Kolkata and the settling of new colonies. In sum, the studio looks at periurban through the lens of the settling urban, the post-rural and the intensifying agrarian landscapes, livelihoods, and economies. Join us at Studio in SDE 3 for a final review and presentation hosted by NUS Architecture and Landscape Architecture students where they will display their learnings.
FINAL REVIEW