Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City
Architect Rahul Mehrotra, through his firm RMA Architects, led a self-initiated research project mapping the vast temporary city that forms for India's Kumbh Mela festival, aimed at better understanding such large-scale temporary urbanism.
Indian architect and urban researcher Rahul Mehrotra, through his firm RMA Architects, often undertakes self-commissioned research initiatives like the "Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City" project. This stemmed from his team's critical observation of this massive temporary city, leading to proposals for better understanding and managing such dynamic urban phenomena, independent of a direct client brief for the mapping itself.
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- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change · both placed under Self-Commission
- Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming · both placed under Self-Commission
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- Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby) · both placed under Self-Commission
- Frame Creation (Kees Dorst) · discussed together in section 113
- The UnSchool of Disruptive Design · discussed together in section 113
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