Online interactive sessions with critical appraisal of basic concepts of Urban Design conducted by Urban Design graduates or assistant professors and visiting lecturers from the top Urban Design graduate programs in the world - Columbia University GSAPP, New York City; Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge; Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge; School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, London, KU Leuven Belgium, working in internationally renowned Urban Design offices across the world, from North and South America, Europe and Asia.
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Online interactive classes with critical appraisal of basic concepts of urban design conducted by Urban Design graduates or associate professors from the top Urban Design graduate programs in the world - Columbia University GSAPP, New York City; Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cambridge; Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge; School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi; Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London working in internationally renowned Urban Design offices across the world, from North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Organized by Sreyash Dasgupta, Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University GSAPP, New York City.
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Introduction to Digital Techniques in Urban Design
Urban intervention of Scottish cemetery
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Bhavya Mittal, SOA IPS Academy Indore I Aishwarya Kulkarni, Academy of Architecture, Rachana Sansad, Mumbai I Deepali Khunteta, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal I Sreyasi Dorbala, Sri Venkateswara College of Architecture, Hyderabad I Gabriel Castrejon, USIL, Lima, Peru
The Scottish cemetery in Kolkata currently has no relation to its surrounding area and therefore the local inhabitants do not have a sense of belonging to the public space in front of them, despite finding themselves in the most relevant axes of Kolkata. Based on these premises, it has been proposed to develop a series of acupuncture urban interventions that forged the link between the local inhabitant and the space, promoting recreation, local economy, education and belonging as pride of living in the place.
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To phase and direct the efforts, the impact and probable implementation time that would be carried out in the following items have been identified:
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City Level intervention - connect the Scottish Links through an interactive Tourist circuit - and make it a talked part of city’s heritage
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Neighbourhood Level intervention - Develop surroundings of the cemetery for users like - Tourist , Local, Youth/kids and Work professional
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Cemetery Level Changes :
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Nursery project (2 months) to develop a key local economy
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Painting Wall (2 months) to connect the young generation with the area
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Boundary Wall like play gaming (3 months) so that local people have a nearby place to recreate
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Nigthclasses at cemetery (6 months) to promote and motivate the education of the local population.
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Pedestrian Walkway (a year) to strengthen and activate micro-commerce
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VISION:
Create a self-sustained eco-system which aims at amalgamating all sections of society to create contextual, functional space in the cemetery and connect it with the existing fabric of the city.
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CONCEPT:
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Focus on changing the mind of the younger generation of local society with education, recreation and pacification tools – and generate livelihood opportunities.
OBJECTIVES & GOALS
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Achieve the empathic and symbiotic coexistence of all the participants of the place and improving quality of life
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Achieve the common identity of the entire local population so that they make this part of the city their own
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Achieve the simultaneous growth of public life with private life to avoid a gentrification process and the local population to be displaced.