Exploring the politics behind architectural heritage and conservation and the notion that the state acts as the custodian of culture, ‘The Tower of a Forgotten India’ follows the story of ‘The Architect’, a man desperately trying to save the nation’s past. The story of passion and madness unfolds within the Tower, a mega structure that serves to breathe life and function back into the forgotten buildings and fragments, reintegrating them into the city’s urban fabric. With heritage in the Indian context the threat comes from every direction, religious fundamentalism, thoughtless modernization, the culture of collectability and political corruption. Exploring the impact of shifting political ideologies and rampant and unplanned urbanism on architecture, as buildings are repurposed to meet the ever-changing needs of the nation, the film fires us into the heart of the sprawling chaos of Delhi. ‘The Tower of a Forgotten India’ is a modern parable spanning decades, that suggests the control of a city’s past is – in the end - a fool’s paradise.

THE TOWER OF A FORGOTTEN INDIA

Exploring the politics behind architectural heritage and conservation and the notion that the state acts as the custodian of culture, ‘The Tower of a Forgotten India’ follows the story of ‘The Architect’, a man desperately trying to save the nation’s past.

An ambitious redevelopment project is underway to transform Parnell Square into the cultural quarter of Dublin City with the provision of the new Dublin City Library by Pritzker Prize Architects Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell.

SITE SPECIFIC: PARNELL SQUARE

An ambitious redevelopment project is underway to transform Parnell Square into the cultural quarter of Dublin City with the provision of the new Dublin City Library by Pritzker Prize Architects Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell.

Film set in the neighborhood of Copacabana, elaborated through a collage of current and archive images (Super 8 and digital). An experimental work narrated by the significant speech of the poet Fausto Fawcett, and sonorized by the musician Arnaldo Brandão.

KOPACABANA

The design investigates how the domestic realm will be affected by the evolution from 2D computer interfaces to 3D inhabitable digital environments. It explores how immersive technologies and the establishment of smart homes that can be overlaid with virtual environments, respond to a post-pandemic world where domesticity is redefined. Especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, the project investigates the role of architecture in learning, working, meeting up and living communally online, eliminating spatial distance through technology. Over the past half century, the emergence of immersive technologies, allowed us to move from the two dimensions of computer screens, to the three dimensions of spatially experienced information making our interaction with computers an increasingly architectural concern. By designing both the physical home of the future and the virtual environments it can host, the project speculates on a future where houses do not have computers in them, but are computers themselves. It explores the design implications of spatialising computer interfaces, essentially redefining what it means to be at home. The physical reality of the home is overlaid with multiple virtual reality environments where inhabitants can work, learn or meet up, without ever leaving their homes. The home becomes responsively robotic and rearranges itself to support the resident’s virtual inhabitation. The result is a proposal for the home of the future, where domesticity is simply the programmatic starting point of a home.

THE THIRD SPACE: INHABITABLE INTERFACES

Ciutat de Granada 145-147-149 is the address of a new social housing complex for vulnerable seniors in Barcelona. Three buildings that shelter 127 seniors with a small team of caretakers and social workers who give them basic assistance. The inhabitants should be autonomous for most of their activities. They build community within a space that removes them from their loneliness and allows them interact with each other.

CIUTAT DE GRANADA 145-147-149

Known as “the artist among architects”, Luis Barragán is among the world’s most celebrated architects of the 20th century. Upon his death in 1988, much of his work was locked away in a Swiss bunker, hidden from the world’s view. In an attempt to resurrect Barragán's life and art, boundary redefining artist Jill Magid creates a daring proposition that becomes a fascinating artwork in itself - a high-wire act of negotiation that explores how far an artist will go to democratize access to art.

THE PROPOSAL

In an attempt to resurrect Barragán's life and art, boundary redefining artist Jill Magid creates a daring proposition that becomes a fascinating artwork in itself - a high-wire act of negotiation that explores how far an artist will go to democratize access to art.

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