‘This is the second in a series of articles about Harvard’s interdisciplinary work at the Kumbh Mela, a religious gathering that every 12 years creates the world’s largest pop-up city.’
‘WWCW is a constellation of events that is designed to open up various directions of cultural and historical inquiry while eluding fixed institutional or disciplinary mandates. It will act as a stage for new relationships to emerge among initiatives in the arts, architecture, urbanism and culture at large. WWCW is presented as a production set for ideas that will, we hope, circulate into the cultural bloodstream of Bombay. It is a prototype for a full-scale festival of ideas, which is intended to take place in 2013.’
Rahul Mehrotra and Nondita Correa Mehrotra accompany GSD Direct of Urban Design Felipe Correa to Quito, Ecuador for the presentation of his new book ‘A Line in the Andes,’ examining the city’s Metro system.
As part of Transsolar KlimaEngineering’s CONNECT IDEAS – MAXIMIZE IMPACT Symposium in Stuttgart, Germany – Rahul presents on ‘Emerging Cities’ in this recorded talk.
See all of the talks on ‘The Role of Design,’ ‘Design and Technology’ and ‘Emerging Cities’ here.
Rahul Mehrotra along with Wang Shu and Francine Houben talks in the GREEN HOUSE TALK‘, on 28 August from 9am to 11am in the Serra dei Giardini, Venice.