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MOD Institute invites you to the inaugural session of the Talk of the Town lecture series, being organised by Goethe-Institut, Bangalore and MOD Institute.

The first lecture begins with Richard Saul Wurman’s famous call for “making the city observable” to interrogate different practices of seeing the city through cartography and other visual means and how those shape our everyday urban experiences and decisions. In the first lecture, we are especially interested in having a discussion on how specific ways of ‘seeing’ or ‘visualising’ the city can create or dismantle urban hierarchies, and also what ways of ‘seeing’ the city dominate the urban discourse in India.

We are honoured to announce that Dr. Solomon Benjamin and Prof. Jörg Stollmann will deliver the lectures at this first event.

For further details, please see the attached flyer.

Speakers and Moderator

Dr. Benjamin is an urbanist operating out of Bangalore. He is faculty at the Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, and a senior research associate with the French Institute Pondicherry. Prof. Stollmann is co-founder of urbaninform and an architect and urban designer based in Zurich. His practice ranges from design projects to urban research and curatorial work.

The session will be moderated by Zainab Bawa, a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, working on the changing land regulations, regimes and property relations that are transforming the landscape of politics and economy in large Indian cities.

Venue and Time

The lecture will be held on Thursday, 9th February, 2012, at 6:30 pm in Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, located in 716 CMH Road, Indiranagar 1st Stage (map).

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