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City as Studio 2
The ‘City Studios’ have brought together the fellows and other people from a range of social, cultural and media contexts to engage creatively with the local rhythms of a place.
No Apologies for the Interruption
Power creates rules, makes many implements to reign in possibilities and the impulses to create. But force of life cannot be contained; it bursts through anyway. Energy travels from body to body; each environment germinates countless more. It is of…
FLOSS is Not Just Good for Your Teeth
'FLOSS Is Not Just Good for Your Teeth' is a media work produced as part of the activities of 'Towards a
Culture of Open Networks', a collaborative initiative of Sarai-CSDS (Delhi), Waag Society (Amsterdam) and
t0 (Vienna), focused on bridging…
Culture of Open Networks', a collaborative initiative of Sarai-CSDS (Delhi), Waag Society (Amsterdam) and
t0 (Vienna), focused on bridging…
Sensor-Census-Censor: A Report
A sensor is a device that indicates a change of state in response to an event or stimulus. A census is an instrument by which the changes in state in a given population are registered through counting. A censor is a filter which selects and screens…
Sarai Reader 08: Fear
Modernity’s great promise – the freedom from fear, now lies in ruins. One can argue that this vision was always compromised – modernity (especially in the form that emerged in the West, under Capitalism) always hid its own fears, and hid from…
Raj Comics for the Hard Headed
After 25 years of producing an entire galaxy of superheroes, Raj Comics is the largest comic book publishing house in India. They have published more than 5000 titles and are home to more than 20 characters. But, what is the world of Raj Comics? Who…
Working Questions: Independent Research and Interdisciplinary Practice - The Sarai CSDS Fellowship Programme - 2002-2007
These projects, undertaken by a diverse body of researchers and practitioners in English and Hindi, constitute a growing body of work that has emerged under the aegis of the Sarai-CSDS programme of fellowships for independent researchers and…
Tinker.Solder.Tap: A Graphic Novel
The protagonists of Tinker.Solder.Tap bring alive the ways in which the relationship between life and the media has been re-scripted in the various neighbourhoods of our cities. The story begins in the mid-80s, when a man returns home with an object…
The Water Cookbook
The Water Cookbook presents ideas from the Sarai project on peri-urban sustainability in Ghaziabad, India. It is a short graphic novel combining pictures with brief stories from daily life in the city.More: http://sarai.net/the-water-cookbook/
Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence
If there were ever to be a ‘weather report’ for our times, an audit of the climate in which we have grown accustomed to live, it would use the word ‘turbulence’ often. We inhabit the vortex of storms, and smell sunshine. We are always…