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TALKS:
 Naresh
V Narasimhan is well known for his long-term association with Venkataramanan Associates (VA), an award-winning architectural firm.
What resonates when you talk to him, is his enthusiasm and his role as an urbanist, activist, and creative entrepreneur in Bangalore.
Through Metaform, a multidisciplinary conceptual design firm, he's worked with municipal agencies to renew valuable markets and neighbourhoods.
As a co-founder of MOD Institute, an international collective of urban designers, researchers and curators, Naresh has also been responsible in making cities like Bangalore and the urban processes that drive them: visible and participatory.
As part of the erstwhile Bangalore Agenda Task Force; a founder and trustee of Imagine Bangalore, and regular advisor to government bodies, Naresh has fuelled many progressive causes for the city.
He maintains a healthy and eclectic work‐style, with interests that range from social innovation, knowledge-sharing and communication strategies to cinema, art and popular culture.
He is a leading voice in Bengaluru that demands transparency and participation in Governance. He also advocates that citizens take ownership, show responsibility and play an active role in their collective future!
Come to this talk, where Naresh will present his evolving thoughts on 'Urban Planning and Governance towards a sustainable city'!
 Muralidhar
Rao is Vice President of Bangalore Apartments’ Federation. He was a core group member of Rera-Karnataka, advocating the building up of a properly constituted regulatory regime in the real estate sector. He was the charter president of
praja.in, a research, analysis, advocacy group and is also a member of the Indian Liberal Group. That’s not all. He’s an active participant in various civil society groups like CAF, Janaagraha, Public Affairs Centre, Civic, Proof, Environment Support Group
and Hasiru Usiru, a tree protection group working to sustain the greenery in Bengaluru.
He will focus on the need for urgent Governance Reforms in the city of Bengaluru, the lack of which has resulted in unmanaged growth and destruction of its habitat, making it environmentally unsustainable.
Ganesh
Bhat has been a sculptor for more than 35 years, and has won several awards. He has specialised in traditional Indian Art and Sculpture forms. He is an avid student of Temple design in ancient India.
He has also served as advisor to the Govt, NGMA, on educational institutions, etc.,
He will dwell upon the significance of the messages in the traditional art forms, in symbolising the earth, and for exhorting people to care for it.
Come derive some traditional wisdom from his talk.
 Meghana
Sudhindra is the funky cool face of Kannada revivalism. A contemporary phenomenon in Kannada publishing, Meghana is the youngest Kannada author to be published.
She is an AI Engineer, writer, musician and volunteers to teach Kannada on the app 'Kannada Gottilla' and in person at weekend classes.
She is a commentator on social issues. Her book 'Jayanagarada Hudugi' is a collection of her blogs, and are excellent commentaries on the rapid transformation of our garden city to the unrecognisable garbage city and concrete city.
Meghana is representative of the vernacular movements that have bubbled up in the Silicon city, not just recapturing space for the culture of the soil, but also welcoming the migrants to the city, to feel at home, by exploring the rich heritage and making it
their own.
By thus connecting the people to the place, through language, culture, arts, history, etc., will the largely disconnected and apathetic urban populations begin to feel ownership for their surroundings, and seek to take care of it, get involved, and engage to
build a better governance, a better city, a better future?
So, block your Saturday morning! See you there!
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