[Urbanstudy] Talk of the Town - SEE - Invitation | Thursday, 9th Feb

[sumandro]

Dear Madam/Sir,

MOD Institute invites you to the inaugural session of the Talk of the
Town<http://www.mod.org.in/mod/talk-of-the-town/>lecture series, being
organised by
Goethe-Institut <http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/bag/enindex.htm>, Bangalore
and MOD Institute <http://www.mod.org.in/>.

The first lecture begins with Richard Saul Wurman’s famous call for “making
the city observable” to interrogate different practices of seeing the city
through cartography and other visual means and how those shape our everyday
urban experiences and decisions. In the first lecture, we are especially
interested in having a discussion on how specific ways of ‘seeing’ or
‘visualising’ the city can create or dismantle urban hierarchies, and also
what ways of ‘seeing’ the city dominate the urban discourse in India.

We are honoured to announce that Dr. Solomon Benjamin and Prof. Jörg
Stollmann will deliver the lectures at this first event.

For further details, please see the attached flyer.

*Speakers and Moderator*

Dr. Benjamin is an urbanist operating out of Bangalore. He is faculty at
the Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, and a senior research
associate with the French Institute Pondicherry. Prof. Stollmann is
co-founder of urbaninform <http://www.urbaninform.net/> and an architect
and urban designer based in Zurich. His practice ranges from design
projects to urban research and curatorial work.

The session will be moderated by Zainab Bawa, a PhD scholar at the Centre
for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, working on the changing
land regulations, regimes and property relations that are transforming the
landscape of politics and economy in large Indian cities.

*Venue and Time*

The lecture will be held on Thursday, 9th February, 2012, at 6:30 pm in
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, located in 716 CMH Road, Indiranagar
1st Stage (map <http://g.co/maps/7x36w>).

Please R.S.V.P. for the event at mail at mod.org.in

Regards,

sumandro

*MOD Institute*
www.mod.org.in
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