City Shapers Collective was launched by Mod Foundation as a long-term initiative examining how design influences Bengaluru’s transformation and future. Conceived as more than a platform for dialogue, the Collective positions design as an active tool for engaging with the city’s evolving challenges, bringing together practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and civic actors to collectively imagine pathways […]
Coming Unstuck: Creativity Through Noticing invites participants to slow down, pay closer attention, and rediscover the delight in ordinary moments through simple practices of noticing. If you’re feeling creatively stuck, or looking for inspiration on a passion project, or simply seeking a different way of engaging with the world, then join us! This workshop is for […]
On the Silver Globe is a science fiction film directed by Andrzej Żuławski in 1977. One-fifth of the film remains unfinished due to its tumultuous production. The Polish communist government […]
There is an unending debate on the north-south claims on government money. Every election cycle unmistakably sees a discussion on freebies and corruption. The states and the union continue to have multiple disagreements concerning the Goods and Services Tax. And while Indian cities contribute to the bulk of its GDP, they are perennially begging for […]
Mothers Won’t Drown explores the physical forces at play in the act of birthing. Imagining the fluid-based relationship between a fetus and the pregnant mother, the performer explores the in-between spaces of compassion, sickness, nourishment, resistance, play, and ecstasy that characterise the world of the natal. Inspired by the essay The Great Mother by Adriana […]
Under The Lamp (UTL) is a read-along book club, where we pick a book of the month for everyone to read, and come together to discuss it once a month. This month’s meeting will be a discussion on the books Black Bag by Luke Kennard and The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams. This is a closed meeting […]
How can we read a city when parts of its built fabric have disappeared, and its history survives through partial, contradictory, and often biased records? Drawing from the book, A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive: Lucknow Queerscapes, this session explores methods of working with maps, photographs, paintings, written accounts, and surviving […]
Inspired by the futures-thinking section of Befizuli sawaal, this is a tabletop worldbuilding session where small groups build an entire speculative world from scratch — no prior experience needed. Participants enter through a “portal” into a world that doesn’t yet exist, shaping it across three layers: Planetary Conditions (waste, water, energy, climate), Social Systems (power, […]
This book presents urban transition experiences over nearly three decades in Bangalore city based on the narratives of the city’s street-based sex workers. Sex workers – female, male, and transgender – have been omnipresent in Bangalore’s streets for decades. However, despite being blacklisted as ‘undesirable’ and hazards to the ‘ideal public’, they have their own […]
MoonArra world fusion ensemble is an amalgam of Indian Classical, jazz and world music influences based in Bangalore, India. In this exciting musical workshop, the group explores how in the early 40s and more so in the 1950s Latin percussion entered Indian Cinema and the sound of film music changed, it’s compositions and songs and background […]
About Sketchbook Saturday Sketchbooks are private, and intimate spaces for artists to think, experiment, and try new ways of designing or creating art. Sketchbook Saturday is a bi-monthly event that […]
Under The Lamp (UTL) is a read-along book club where we pick a book of the month for everyone to read and come together once a month to discuss it. […]
