Prof. Dilip da Cunha and Dr. Anuradha Mathur  University of Pennsylvania, USA

Date & Time: Wednesday, 25th August 2010, 10:30 a.m Venue : CSTEP, Conference Hall (please see signature file for complete address)

All are cordially invited
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 Abstract

 This presentation will focus on our most recent work on Mumbai where people  have been cultured to see the sea and monsoon as outsiders and visitors. It  is a visualization that lies at the heart of design practices, planning  attitudes and scientific investigations. It perpetuates a language of  landscape that has set Mumbai on a trajectory of war with the sea and  monsoon, encouraging practices directed to prediction and control. We offer  an alternative that sees Mumbai in an estuary, a fluid gradient where  solutions to problems of settlement are necessarily resolved by building  resilience in the face of complexity.