The residency aims to re-reading of history and anthropological survey to help understand the contemporary context better.

-Interactive projects for citizen engagement

-An ethnographic and anthropological understanding of the city

-Community-based projects encapsulating Pune’s identity or people

-Remapping the city through historical inquiry

-Articulating the transfiguration of the city’s landscape and planning

Windows outside my window | Snehal Goyal

The growing cities,

The flowering trees,

Roofs grown old with stories, 

Glimpses through the half openings.

The peeping old,

and the structured new, 

The changing me and the changing you!

​The project is an exploration of​ the notion of windows and the views they frame with the context of the city. In​ a growing​​ city like Pune, these views are constantly influ​x. ​​The drawing​ forges​ an immediate connection between the private and the public.​

These drawings on the TIFA window facing the bustling streets of Camp, ​are of the old structures in the city, some inhabited, some demolished.

Working on the idea of the window being a sheet of glass that connects the indoors and the outdoor​s​,​ ​me and the world​. I want to capture the quiet metamorphosis that has seized the familiar and everyday, and created a city​ within cities.

Grounding Flyers | Vrushaket Salaskar

A City, apart from having an obvious physical form and a geographical existence, also has an idea at its core. An idea which slowly becomes its identity. A unique identity which becomes the seed around which the city grows.

Various little nuances constitute the notions and ideas which help build the identity of any particular phenomenon,. These traits don’t always have a point in time and space to which its origin can be attributed to. The more you enquire the more elusive they appear to be.

Grounding Flyers is an satirical attempt at finding or creating imagery content to ground these abstract notions and ideas into physical existence.

Satire is a big part of Pune’s identity, and the first thing that many like me think, when they think of Pune. Hence it was a very obvious choice for me for this project. Flyers and posters are very ambiguous in nature in a sense that you never know who puts them out there. It a became a natural choice for this satirical intervention into History.

| Vrishali Purandare

"To speak it clearly, 

how the water goes,

is how the earth is shaped."

-Jim Harrison

Through work, I wish to explore the relationship that wilderness has with dwelling and public/institutional spaces. To fathom the continuity between the inside and the outside worlds and to push to the fore the idea of interdependence and not mere co-existence with the environment is a concern that has directed my practice.

The project I wish to begin is one that will base itself on a long drawn engagement with the ecology of the two rivers, which even after surviving years of abuse are alive and are flowing across Pune.

I wish collect the material; visual-aural and tactile, which will be my primary source of research.

Monumental Humans | Annada Menon

Every city is recognized from its Monuments and landmarks .But there are people in pune who despite modernization have kept a community or trend alive. This project is to celebrate these lives. The best way to filter this list was to ask residents in pune who they thought were monumental or popular humans within the city. Most of these revolved around the people of the parsi community who owned very popular shops . The most interesting suggestion though was hand's down of Hormaz Irani or Vohuman Uncle owner of Vohuman cafe . Described as a man with a heart of gold , he was someone every person admires for his sense of humor and the immense love for his cafe. The cafe was established in 1978 and today still serves the best irani chai , bun maskas and omelettes . Though people visited the place for its food they always spoke to him. His habits behind the billing counter included drawing smileys on bills, to cracking 'non veg jokes' and most importantly telling people that Salman Khan visited the cafe. 

The video is a tribute to uncle, with the dialogues taken from sources like newspaper clippings and a dedicated facebook page which was started after

he passed away in 2016. Apart from the video, the environment set up within the room is to mimic the ambiance of the cafe.

Fragmented Nostalgia | Ria Rajan

An enquiry into spaces within a city and the sense of nostalgia that surrounds them. 

Images sourced from digital archives have been processed through analog and digital mediums to create glitched versions of prominent landmarks specific to the heart of the city, with the intention to repurpose archival content as well as reference the way in which we relate to and remember these architectural markers today.