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The ordinary & the everyday : street corners at Russell market

November 18, 2016 Kiran Keswani

On the afternoon of 28th april 2014, I had set myself the task of observing two street corners at either end of Noronha road at Russell market in Shivajinagar – a corner at the Broadway

What is the ‘Everyday City’?

April 26, 2016 Kiran Keswani

The idea of the ‘Everyday city’ is based on the concept of Everyday Urbanism that was proposed in 1999 by Margaret Crawford & others, wherein the city is seen above all as a social product

‘The Everyday City’ workshop

August 31, 2015 Kiran Keswani

The Registrations for the CEPT Winter School in Ahmedabad are now open! There’s a wide variety of courses and one of these is ‘The Everyday City’. Sharing the details of this course below. Dates: 1st

The Ashwath Katte as a Neighbourhood Community Space

January 29, 2015 Kiran Keswani

At the Neralu 2014, a discussion on the cultural meaning attached to some of the older, shade-giving trees in the city led to the awareness that people continue to worship the Peepul tree AND informally

The Fence is the Territory

June 20, 2014 Kiran Keswani

This is a series of photographs that documents the visual evidence of territoriality at the morning flower market in Bangalore. Within this periodic marketplace, a metal fence appears repeatedly at various locations demarcating vehicular and

How everyday life designs city’s public spaces

December 29, 2013 Kiran Keswani

A few months ago when I started writing this blog, I wanted to call it Everyday City and had tried to put down as simple a blog description as I could. I had said it