[Urbanstudy] Fw: H-ASIA: Seeking submissions on Mumbai floods 2005

[Curt Gambetta]

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H-ASIA
March 31, 2009

Seeking submissions on Mumbai floods 2005
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From: PUKAR <pukar at pukar.org.in>

You can read the original version online:
http://www.ymlp195.com/msg.php?id=acpincxbern
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Dear friends, colleagues, and mumbaikers,

We would like to invite you to participate in the 'Collective Memory'
initiative which will be part of an exhibition titled 'SOAK: Mumbai in
an Estuary' scheduled to open at the National Gallery of Modern Art,
Mumbai in June 2009 at the start of the monsoons. The exhibition,
authored by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha explores alternative
ways to visualize Mumbai's terrain, ways that accommodate its aqueous
nature.

In the Mumbai floods of July 26 2005, few people were left unaffected
or untouched by the devastation that hit the city. The unexpected
trauma and chaos endured in the immediate, and extended aftermath of
the event, has been etched in the memory of people in Mumbai.
Collective Memory is a platform that invites the participation of
Mumbai's citizens to share personal encounters, photographs and videos
from that fateful day.

We are looking for individual experiences recorded in any form -
whether captured on film, digital, video, hand-held mobile devices or
in writing. Photographs / videos can be uploaded to our flickr group
http://www.flickr.com/people/soakcollective/  and videos to our
YouTube group http://www.youtube.com/group/soak or you can mail us your
contributions directly <mailto:soak.collective at gmail.com>soak..collective at gmail.com

Collective Memory is an open group and hopes to be a reflective space
to pause, and share one's experiences of July 2005. We seek to reach
out to as many people as possible to help build this platform. Do
forward this to people who may be willing to share these experiences
and would like to participate in this exercise.

Be a part of the collective memory ­ a shared concern for the
future of Mumbai.

For more information on SOAK and Collective Memory please visit
http://www.soak.in


SOAK Team

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research)
Website: www.pukar.org.in


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