We are honoured to announce that Dr. Solomon Benjamin and Prof. Jörg Stollmann will give the lectures at the inaugaral session of the Talk of the Town lecture series, being organised by Goethe Institute, Bangalore and MOD Institute.
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Venkataramanan Associates, MOD Institute and Jaaga are organising the first Pecha Kucha Night Bangalore event of the year on Thursday, 26th January 2012.
The event will engage with the spirit of the Republic Day to re-imagine the idea of the ‘public’. We are interested in de-mystifying the notion and to rethink the energies, concerns, resources and actions that involve the ‘public’.
We are calling it *Re:Public*.
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During the last months, the MOD team in Berlin gave two lectures on urban culture and change in Bangalore and in India.
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Naresh Narasimhan recently spoke at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Centre for Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He was invited to part of a panel discussion on ‘ICT for Urban Governance’.
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Sumandro from MOD was invited to make a presentation on the role of the small builders (and the lack of it) in the contetxt of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) at the recently held (2-3 December 2011) Workshop on Implementation of RAY organised by GIZ-ASEM.
RAY is a cricial affordable housing and city planning policy guideline released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation early this year. This guideline is to set the approach of State Governments in creating ‘Slum-Free’ cities by re-developing (and rehabilitating) existing slums as well as planning for future growth in urban housing demand. It will also govern the support from the Central Government in such housing exercises.
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Naresh Narasimhan and Tile Von Damm recently participated in an Open Consultation on ‘Bangalore as a Creative City’ to discuss policy recommendations involving urban arts and culture spaces, on Thursday 29th September, 2011.
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