Patrick Geddes in India 1914 – 2014 Research

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In November 1914 the Scottish biologist-sociologist and co-founder of town-planning” Patrick Geddes is called to develop different reports in India as a planning Consultant. In a colonial India, Geddes made several survey and planning proposal reports around cities of all India, between the 1914 and1924. His approaches, premises and any applied methodologies in his Indian works were forward-thinking on his day, often misunderstood. Today his proposals are surprisingly valid. These approaches are the founder of proto-ecologists and (post) post-colonial ideas, placing human beings, their knowledge, local culture and his well-being inside an ecosystem at the centre of urban planning.

In November 2014 his journey is revisited in a project by Adrián Torres Astaburuaga: PATRICK GEDDES IN INDIA 1914 – 2014 PROJECT driven by the ESAAA, Art school of Annecy, (France) in collaboration with Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology (Bangalore, India) and MAMCO, Museum of modern and contemporary Art in Geneva (Switzerland). The project is inside the Research project: BANGALORE: Towards the invention of a “tiers” Patrimoine by the Ministry of Culture of France. This project is coordinated by Naïm Ait.Sidhoum, with the researchers: Naïm Ait.Sidhoum (ESAAA), Nicolas Tixier ( ENSAG,ESAAA, Laboratoire CRESSON, Bazar Urbain), Adrián Torres ( ESAAA), Alexandre Costanzo (ESAAA), Tahireh Lal, y Pooja Kaul ( Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology).

A starting survey has been realized in Shivaji Nagar quarter of Bengaluru, applying and revisiting Patrick Geddes methodologies, reevaluating how valid these 100 years old approaches are today, taking into account the obvious distance between the two historic moments. Registration takes in different means of transport. , dialogue walks, meetings, interviews, collective mapping has been started seeking to understand Indian public space in the XXI st century.

The City-an investigation. 12/12/14. Recorded meeting between: Jyoti Hosagrahar, Arzu Mistry, Tahireh Lal, Pooja Kaul, Naïm Ait-Sidhoum and Adrián torres Astaburuaga. Mains subjects: Public space in Bangalore, Patrick Geddes in India 1914-2014, Art and tacticak urbsnism as tools for understanding, approaching and participating into public space, Bangalore today. Document Under Edition.