Lecture at Harvard GSD

VineetDiwadkar-HarvardGSD 'Practices in the Turbulent City: Mumbai Model' Vyjayanthi Rao and Vineet Diwadkar Theories of Landscape Architecture course, led by Pierre Bélanger Department of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design Cambridge, USA

Lecture at Harvard GSD

VineetDiwadkar-HarvardGSD 'Practices in the Turbulent City: Mumbai Model' Vyjayanthi Rao and Vineet Diwadkar Theories of Landscape Architecture course, led by Pierre Bélanger Department of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design Cambridge, USA

Kumbh Mela: Work in Progress

Kumbh Mela: Work in Progress, GSD Urban India Project team. Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall Harvard University Graduate School of Design

With Rahul Mehrotra, Diana Eck, Tarun Khanna, Satchit Balsari, Vineet Diwadkar, Oscar Malaspina, Alykhan Mohamed, Felipe Vera, and James Whitten.

Live-Blog of Event, Lian Chikako Chang for Architect. Inside India’s pop-up city, Harvard Gazette Mapping a megacity’s metabolism, Harvard Gazette Saving the mother river Among millions, a blank slate, Harvard Gazette Tracking Disease in a Tent City Lessons of a Temporary City, Harvard Gazette

Ready to go

kumbh mela - ready to go Kumbh Mela: 14 January – 25 February 2013 Allahabad, India

field notebooks and maps for the Harvard Mapping the Kumbh Mela research team. More Info: Global Health Initiative ; Participant Blog; Government Site

"The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious fair that occurs every 12 years at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers on the plains of northern India. Since its inception early in the first millennium CE, the Kumbh Mela has become the largest public gathering in the world. Today it draws tens of millions of pilgrims over the course of a few weeks to bathe in the sacred rivers.

A temporary city is created every twelve years in Allahabad to house the Kumbh Mela’s many pilgrims. This city is laid out on a grid, constructed and deconstructed within a matter of weeks; within the grid, multiple aspects of contemporary urbanism come to fruition, including spatial zoning, an electricity grid, food and water distribution, physical infrastructure construction, mass vaccinations, public gathering spaces, and nighttime social events."