Placemaking Week India
Mangaluru / Nov 30-Dec 4 / 2022
Riverside Rejuvenation • Water-Sensitive Design • Community Collaboration • Climate-Responsive Planning • Sustainable Seaside Development • Cultural Placemaking
About
Creating public destinations at the water’s edge can build a strong constituency and political capital for cleaning sewage, solid waste and industrial contaminants, a problem for many of India’s water bodies.
The annual meeting of Placemaking India is being planned around a waterside placemaking theme at lakeside, riverbank and seafront locations in Dakshin Kannada. The number of participants is being kept small as India recovers from the pandemic and not least due to the fragile ecosystem of the pristine Udupi coast where the activities are centred.
Knowledge-sharing and activities such as walkshops, huddles, hackathons and interventions will focus on the social, economic and cultural and ecological uses of waterbodies which range from stepwells to the ocean. Themes identified for elaboration at the event include community collaboration in riverside rejuvenation, sustainable seaside developments, water-sensitive design, climate-responsive planning and heritage-based placemaking.
Our intention is to emerge with a customised set of principles and practices for waterside placemaking, one that takes into account cultural and natural heritage of waterbodies and based on global best practice from our affiliates around the planet.
After a day of boots-on- the-ground action, put your feet up at the hospitality hub of Placemaking Week India
Venue
Paradise Lagoon, Placemaking Week India’s Hospitality Hub, is reserved exclusively for registered participants during the event. It is spread across three acres and surrounded on three sides by the pristine backwaters of the Suvarna River, about 7.5 kms from Malpe in Udupi District.
The ten-minute walk to Hoode Beach leads you through the peaceful village of Thonse. An infinity pool and open-air restaurant are additional attractions of this property.
Accommodation includes breakfast and ranges from Rs. 1600 to 1800 per person per day for triple sharers, Rs. 2000 to 2200 for double occupancy and Rs. 4000 to 4200 for single occupancy. A 12% tax applies.
Placemaking India Weekend 2019
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Speakers
Dhanya Rajagopal
Dhanya Rajagopal is the Director of Programs at Public Landscape and Urbanism Studio (PLUS), a collaborative platform for creating equitable, resilient urban communities, based in Chennai, Bangalore and San Francisco. She is an architect, Urban Planner and Participatory Designer from Chennai with experience working in the US and India on large scale revitalisation, research and community based projects. She is passionate about design and applied research in the realm of social life, public spaces and urban commons. She has a Masters in Urban Placemaking and Management from Pratt Institute, NYC.
George MP
He is a development professional having an experience of 12 years in the social sector. He holds a master’s degree in social work and has 8 years of work experience alone in the field of public space development. He is a proud recipient of Smart Cities India Award 2018, and Accessible Tourism Destination 2019 (ATD) Special Mention. He also authored a Handbook for Constructing Accessible and Barrier-free Infrastructure in Public spaces, Leisure Zones and Tourism Destinations.
Madhushree Bose
Madhushree is a Conservation Architect with Abha Narain Lambah Associates, Mumbai. With over a decade in the industry, she specializes in living heritage and has lead and delivered projects across the breadth of the country in Ladakh, Bodhgaya (World Heritage site) and in Varanasi (nomination for World heritage site) and many more having engaged with entities like ASI, WMF and INTACH etc.
Sukrit Sen
Sukrit Sen from Kolkata, India is an architect and heritage manager by profession and a musician by passion. His primary interest lies in the role of intangible cultural heritage in disaster management practices. He is associated with the National Park Service, USA, ICOMOS India, ICCROM, Rome, and is currently serving as the art and outreach coordinator at the Living Waters Museum, India.
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