‘A Forest in the City’:
Living within Sanjay Gandhi National Park/ Aarey Colony in Mumbai, is the outcome of a three-year research project at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai.
The exhibition consists of two sections:
The first is called ‘Mapping the Forest’ which explores three ways in which the forest is mapped. A virtual reality environment is created that allows one to discover the geographical context within which the hamlets lie. Within the VR environment a visitor can also walk with residents of the forest as they show them the spaces where they live.
The second space is called ‘A Forest of Claims’.
Here objects through which the forest is imagined and claimed are placed in a conversation with one another. These include policy documents, letters, religious totems, political banners, cultural artefacts, among many others.
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