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Space, City, Imagination
This blog explores the multiphonic voices of Bangalore as a living city of layered spaces and imaginations. Through streets, memories, languages, and contradictions, Bangalore emerges as a site where urban form and lived experience intersect, revealing how space shapes identity, narrative, and the city’s constantly evolving imagination.
Cityscapes and Urbanity
Chetana and Rimi
Across metropolitan cities, we see urbanity embodied in different ways according to different regions. Within these spaces, there are multitudes of experiences, catering to the different demographics that reside in various places inside the city. From Itanagar to Bengaluru, we explore the layers of urbanity and cityscapes through lived experiences.
Food and The City
Aashi and Gargi
Food reveals how the city remembers, adapts, and survives. Everyday food choices, from darshinis to delivery apps, map changing work patterns, migration, convenience, waste, and access. This section explores food as a lens to understand Bangalore’s culture, not just through what’s on the plate, but through the systems that bring it there.
Politics of Urban Ecology
Apeksha and Shraddha
From colonial garden-city aesthetics to contemporary real estate regimes, lakes, trees, and commons have been systematically encroached upon in the name of progress, shrinking the city’s once-rich biodiversity. The city’s history is inscribed in its ecology, such as tanks, avenues, and green belts reveal how power shapes nature, and how nature, in turn, now bears the cost of urban ambition.
Migration in Bangalore
Vedanth and Lakshmi
With the gig economy on the rise, the city of Bangalore is filled with people coming from different states, communities and classes to earn a better living. In this section, we explore how different classes of migrants live in the city of Bangalore thereby shaping diverse experiences.
Musicking the City
SK Meenakshi
This blog series explores how music and cities shape one another. Focusing on sound, space, and everyday cultural practices, it traces how music creates community, expresses resistance, and reflects social inequality within urban environments, moving across venues, streets, scenes, and digital spaces.
The Everyday City
Kavya and Akshara
Reads the urban landscape as a living text, written through routines, fragments, silences, and stories that escape official maps yet shape how the city is lived. The city, at the moment it stops performing, and between errands, pauses, and repetitions, urban meaning appears accidentally, unauthored, unspectacular, and therefore truer than planned design.
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