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Let’s talk architecture with aam admi
Updated On: 03 April, 2022 08:39 AM IST | Mumbai | Sucheta Chakraborty
A Mumbai-based research and publication initiative is trying to engage the common man with built environment and heritage through personal stories
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The precursor to The People Place Project was People Called Mumbai, their first mapping venture, which culminated into a book. By 2017, the year the publication initiative was formally instituted, they wanted to extend that framework to other cities
There is a lacuna in the space of architectural publishing in our country,” says Nisha Nair Gupta, architect, journalist and founder-curator at The People Place Project, a publication and research initiative engaging with text to create readings or re-readings about cities and communities. “Either you have profiles of architects or you have essay-based work with experts talking about certain issues. But these conversations are peer to peer, and not those with a larger audience. We have little architectural appreciation as a society, which is still visual and historical,” she informs, pointing to a gap in the Indian media that the initiative is operating within.
Launched formally in 2017, The People Place Project had its beginnings in The People Called… series which took recourse in the narrative journalistic mode of writing, using people and personal stories to delve into the history and socio-cultural fabric of places, dedicating books to Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Delhi and Shillong among others. “The person became a window to look at the city’s story,” says Gupta. “We all embody a collective story of where we live.”
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