Locus - City - Not a Canvas.

LOCUS

The second part to the year long research on understanding Public Spaces and Urban Landscapes culminated into a process book. This document consisted of a way to understand the deconstructed project and the ideas that made it possible. A case study on the project is what it would seem now. 

The idea was to narrate the journey and time it takes to understand the public space one is working with, especially if public spaces has never been a canvas to you. From the history, to the aesthetics, politics, structure, practices around the world, to understanding design language for public spaces, to understanding the community and its contribution, this book is not a rule book for public space practitioners. It's possible framework of everything that needs to be considered when talking public. Everything that needs to be given a though before being accepted or dismissed. Every person you may need to collaborate with during the project. Different practices in the world that have shaped public space design and the break from the white cube and why? This publication is being re-worked on, in the form of a fictional journal, like an explorer's/ traveller's journal, with Cubbon Park Metro station and Bangalore as the case study. 

This project was the first of the many projects that were deconstructed to illustrate the stagerabbit project, which questions the methodologies of educational pedagogies and exerts a focus on collaborative research and curatorial method for learning.