Subordinate Spatialities:
Historicizing Housing, Language and Identity in Wagdara:
A Kolam Village in Wardha, India
Historicizing Housing, Language and Identity in Wagdara:
A Kolam Village in Wardha, India
By Venugopal Maddipati,
School of Design, Ambedkar University Delhi
This
study explores the manner in which the Kolams, a tribal community based in the
village of Wagdara in west-central India, subordinated their own spatial
imaginings to the spaces of a frequently reproduced low-cost house designed in
1980 by the Gandhian Centre of Science for Villages (CSV), an organization
based in the outskirts of the nearby city of Wardha. The study reflects on how
the Kolams of Wagdara permitted the spaces of these houses to delineate the
spatial grammar of their own households in the 1990s. The study suggests that
an increasing emphasis, in the 1990s, among the Kolams, on their language as
the domain of their identity, led to the diminishment of their investment in
space as the domain of their identity. The study strives to contribute to the
theme of the correspondence between language and spatial culture in South Asian
architectural historiography.
Dr.
Maddipati is an Architectural Historian. He has previously held fellowships at
the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Nehru Memorial Museum
and Library in New Delhi.
Date:
26 March 2014, Wednesday
26 March 2014, Wednesday
Time:
02.30 PM
02.30 PM
FSI HALL, South Asian University,
Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi 110021
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
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