[call] LAND Is available. How do you want to use it?
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Prayas Abhinav
May 21, 2009, 4:08:35 AM5/21/09
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Hi all,
A call for land-use proposals is finally out at CitySpinning. PLEASE
FORWARD it to all who might find it interesting!
More news about things we discussed at YourTime at the last meeting
and future steps soon.
Call follows.
~ prayas
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URL: http://is.gd/BByp
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>> LAND DREAMS, cataloguing our cultural aspirations and use-values related to LAND
Living in a country and region with active land-struggles and a
history of land-rights movements^ and attempts of land-reform, if land
is made available to us for some time, what can we imagine?
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LAND is available for temporary projects, workshops, conferences,
performances, make-shift offices in Bangalore for five days a month.
This LAND is available only until August 2009. As an artist, group,
community, network or individual if there is a need for flexible
temporary space in the city, send your proposal to LAND DREAMS. Your
proposal should:
* Introduce yourself or your group.
* Send a note on how some existing space in Bangalore can be re-
used, re-purposed for social and cultural purposes.
* Explain (in max 300 words) the temporary land-use you have in
mind. If possible, sketch something on the photographs below.
* Please keep these constraints in mind.
o No permanent changes or structures are possible.
o The space has to be kept clean.
o There is no power at the site, everything has to be
battery-powered if at all.
o Collaboration with architects known to us to temporarily
shape the space is possible. So, say so if you want to explore this.
o Night-time projects can’t be noisy.
o Non-commercial projects of any kind can be proposed.
>> WHAT?
* Imaginations often need physical space to play out and virtual
spaces are just not enough. Spaces used now to meet and talk are
expensive coffee shops or restaurants. OUTDOOR SPACES STILL EXIST.
* Using land which is not fully built-up yet is a treat. You will
get as much flexibility as you want. Think of what the buildings you
sit in and use DON’T allow you to use.
* This call comes as a part of the LAND DREAMS project.
“Unemployed plots of land dream of things that they can do, how they
can look, forms they can take. When they are actively traded and
utilized in the market and society, only a narrow range of functions
get performed on them. They, on the other hand remain unfilled.” Read
more at here.
* LAND DREAMS wants to demonstrate alternative and non-commercial
uses for surplus and fringe urban spaces in the city. These
demonstrations will become urban memories which will be drawn on for a
long time to inspire a diverse set of cultural, social and personal
uses of the city.
The LAND belongs is the University Women’s Association of Bangalore
(UWAB)’s property in New Thippasandra where they are building a hostel
for working women. the construction process is temporarily halted due
to paucity of funds. The UWAB has offered CitySpinning use of the
property till such time that construction commences. UWAB believes in
encouraging young talent and hopes to see youth putting there hostel
space to good use.
>> DEADLINE
For using the LAND in July or August please send in your proposals by
June 15th, 2009. Proposals can be e-mailed to la...@cityspinning.org.
>> PROCESS
* Proposals which meet the criteria will be accepted and . — By
July 1st 2009.
* The teams/individuals behind the selected proposals will be
invited to the LAND for a visit, orientation and discussion. — July
4th and 5th, 2009.
* After this the project will be given confirmed dates on which
they can use the LAND for their project. — July 6th, 2009.
>> EXAMPLES:
* Your band doesn’t have a space to practice? The LAND, in the
afternoon might be the right place.
* Likewise, this could the ideal space for theatre and film
rehearsals, practice and enactment.
* Want to set up some writers studios for the literati of
Bangalore? Our architect friends could help you make cheap temporary
studio-spaces.
* Want to organize puppet-shows, screen movies, do a neighbourhood
meeting about dealing with trash and waste? It can all happen here.
* CitySpinning is using the space for a community-in-the-making,
The YourTime Club.
* For interpretive land-use projects around the world see the list
of links here: http://is.gd/A4my.
>> WHERE?
The University Women’s Association, Bangalore (UWAB) property in New
Thippasandra. The UWAB’s land is a site for a working women’s hostel.
Link to the google map: http://is.gd/rl5p. Some photographs are here:
- - -
A CitySpinning, OpenSpace Bangalore and University Women’s Association
(UWA) project.
The proposals will be selected by CitySpinning and University Women’s
Association (UWA) together.
- - -
^ see http://is.gd/A4dV and http://is.gd/A496.
A call for land-use proposals is finally out at CitySpinning. PLEASE
FORWARD it to all who might find it interesting!
More news about things we discussed at YourTime at the last meeting
and future steps soon.
Call follows.
~ prayas
------->>
URL: http://is.gd/BByp
------->>
>> LAND DREAMS, cataloguing our cultural aspirations and use-values related to LAND
Living in a country and region with active land-struggles and a
history of land-rights movements^ and attempts of land-reform, if land
is made available to us for some time, what can we imagine?
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LAND is available for temporary projects, workshops, conferences,
performances, make-shift offices in Bangalore for five days a month.
This LAND is available only until August 2009. As an artist, group,
community, network or individual if there is a need for flexible
temporary space in the city, send your proposal to LAND DREAMS. Your
proposal should:
* Introduce yourself or your group.
* Send a note on how some existing space in Bangalore can be re-
used, re-purposed for social and cultural purposes.
* Explain (in max 300 words) the temporary land-use you have in
mind. If possible, sketch something on the photographs below.
* Please keep these constraints in mind.
o No permanent changes or structures are possible.
o The space has to be kept clean.
o There is no power at the site, everything has to be
battery-powered if at all.
o Collaboration with architects known to us to temporarily
shape the space is possible. So, say so if you want to explore this.
o Night-time projects can’t be noisy.
o Non-commercial projects of any kind can be proposed.
>> WHAT?
* Imaginations often need physical space to play out and virtual
spaces are just not enough. Spaces used now to meet and talk are
expensive coffee shops or restaurants. OUTDOOR SPACES STILL EXIST.
* Using land which is not fully built-up yet is a treat. You will
get as much flexibility as you want. Think of what the buildings you
sit in and use DON’T allow you to use.
* This call comes as a part of the LAND DREAMS project.
“Unemployed plots of land dream of things that they can do, how they
can look, forms they can take. When they are actively traded and
utilized in the market and society, only a narrow range of functions
get performed on them. They, on the other hand remain unfilled.” Read
more at here.
* LAND DREAMS wants to demonstrate alternative and non-commercial
uses for surplus and fringe urban spaces in the city. These
demonstrations will become urban memories which will be drawn on for a
long time to inspire a diverse set of cultural, social and personal
uses of the city.
The LAND belongs is the University Women’s Association of Bangalore
(UWAB)’s property in New Thippasandra where they are building a hostel
for working women. the construction process is temporarily halted due
to paucity of funds. The UWAB has offered CitySpinning use of the
property till such time that construction commences. UWAB believes in
encouraging young talent and hopes to see youth putting there hostel
space to good use.
>> DEADLINE
For using the LAND in July or August please send in your proposals by
June 15th, 2009. Proposals can be e-mailed to la...@cityspinning.org.
>> PROCESS
* Proposals which meet the criteria will be accepted and . — By
July 1st 2009.
* The teams/individuals behind the selected proposals will be
invited to the LAND for a visit, orientation and discussion. — July
4th and 5th, 2009.
* After this the project will be given confirmed dates on which
they can use the LAND for their project. — July 6th, 2009.
>> EXAMPLES:
* Your band doesn’t have a space to practice? The LAND, in the
afternoon might be the right place.
* Likewise, this could the ideal space for theatre and film
rehearsals, practice and enactment.
* Want to set up some writers studios for the literati of
Bangalore? Our architect friends could help you make cheap temporary
studio-spaces.
* Want to organize puppet-shows, screen movies, do a neighbourhood
meeting about dealing with trash and waste? It can all happen here.
* CitySpinning is using the space for a community-in-the-making,
The YourTime Club.
* For interpretive land-use projects around the world see the list
of links here: http://is.gd/A4my.
>> WHERE?
The University Women’s Association, Bangalore (UWAB) property in New
Thippasandra. The UWAB’s land is a site for a working women’s hostel.
Link to the google map: http://is.gd/rl5p. Some photographs are here:
- - -
A CitySpinning, OpenSpace Bangalore and University Women’s Association
(UWA) project.
The proposals will be selected by CitySpinning and University Women’s
Association (UWA) together.
- - -
^ see http://is.gd/A4dV and http://is.gd/A496.
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