The Future of Everyday Urban Spaces

In Week 1, the first exercise of the semester was to create an audio walk in a neighbourhood one was familiar with. Each walk takes us through the streets of a neighbourhood, brings our attention to the place, its people and makes us reflect on questions related to the everyday life of the city. This exercise is based on Remote-X: a project designed by  Rimini Protokoll . We explore 'creating an audio walk' as a method to think about our neighbourhoods considering that many of us are not able to step out onto the streets in the ongoing pandemic situation.  The 13 posts that follow include walks from 13 different neighbourhoods in 6 different cities - Jodhpur road in Ahmedabad; Nakki lake in Mount Abu; Satellite road in Ahmedabad; Nehru Nagar in Bhilai; Chandkheda in Ahmedabad; Malleshwaram in Bangalore; Khadia in Ahmedabad; Bodakdev in Ahmedabad; Ambavadi in Ahmedabad; Evershine city in Mumbai; Johapura in Ahmedabad; Talpuri in Bhilai and Shahpura in Bhopal. 

City: Ahmedabad. Sneha Ramachandran. "The only thing that has changed about this chaiwallah in the years that he has been here is that he wears a mask now." To listen to this audio walk: CLICK on the blog post title. 

City: Mount Abu. Aditi Mishra. "Similar to the roots of this banyan tree are memories deeply rooted, that you cannot let go. Sometimes, you don't want to." To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title. 

City: Ahmedabad. Abhishek Mummithi. "Look around. These tall and beautiful buildings. Are these the face of cities?"  To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title. 

City: Bhilai. Namoshi Basu. "Imagine that the park we started from doesn't exist anymore. Instead, there are tall buildings with glass facades and concrete walls and not a single tree in sight." To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

City: Ahmedabad. Shrayana Ray. "It's evening and you might see teenagers playing basketball near the ground. Now, turn around and look at the other side of the street." To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title. 

City: Bangalore. Srushti Kottai. "You are now in Sri Kaadu Malleshwara Swamy temple. Take a moment to look around. This is one of    the oldest temples in the city."  To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

City: Ahmedabad. Garima Sinha. "Sit and relax under the shade of this tree and look across the street. At this moment, you are facing the entrance of a religious structure." To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

  City: Ahmedabad. Archita Varyani. "You see the long queue of rickshaws outside the petrol pump. They generally gather at this time of the day."  To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

City: Ahmedabad. Samriddhi Dugar. "Walk straight until you see a cobbler and a tailor sitting on the footpath to your left. See how wisely they have chosen this spot as their workspace." To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blogpost title. 

City: Mumbai. Priya Thottappally. "Walk straight across the ground. If it wasn't a Sunday, you wouldn't have been able to walk here. The best footballers from the neighbourhood are trained here."  To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

City: Ahmedabad. Muskaan Mansuri. "I am the voice in your head, the instinct that talks to you when in doubt. I am not God, I won't decide if you go to heaven or hell." To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

City: Bhilai. Ketki Nandanwar. "Look into the huge canopy of trees to your left, try to look as far as possible. Sshhhh...hear that sound? Is that the sound of water?" To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

City: Bhopal. Shaurya Singh. "Now, I want you to climb down the same concrete steps and come back onto the street. We are about to head for another destination." To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.