Jaipur, 26 March: ‘City for All?’, a public art festival to question the role of gender in shaping public spaces and urban experiences will be organised at Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) on 2 & 3 April. Through neighbourhood interactions and workshops, this 6-city project will urge the public to reimagine the design and architecture of urban centres from an inclusive perspective. This collaboration between Swati Janu of Social Design Collaborative and Chris Blache of Genre et Ville (Gender & Society) will seek to generate awareness through dialogue and art. The festival is an initiative by Ambassade De France En Inde, Institut Francais and Alliance Francaise India. In Jaipur, it is being organized with the support of Jawahar Kala Kendra, Vishakha Jaipur, Indian Women Blog, Lady Bamford Foundation, Neerja Modi School, Stirworld, and Leewardists.
The inauguration and a curated walkthrough of the festival will be held at 6 pm on 2 April. This will be followed by speeches by the Deputy Ambassador of France to India, Ms Dana Purcarescu and other delegates from the Government of Rajasthan. At 7 pm, musical performances by folk musicians, Sumitra Devi and Manganiyars will be presented. The day will close at 8 pm. On 3 April, from 10 am to 8 pm, the exhibition will be open to the public for viewing with interactions and curated walks, visits by schools and a short play on gender inclusion by the students of the NGO Indian Women Blog, Jaipur.
The project will travel across 36 neighbourhoods in Jaipur, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore and Delhi to map diverse communities’ relationships with their cities. The interactions will bring out local histories, narratives and patterns on how public spaces are used based on gender, identity, age and abilities as well as the local diversity of economic background, class and caste. Online exchanges between students of design, planning and architecture from France and India will further highlight personal and collective gendered experiences. A final exhibition in each city will showcase the maps, with interactive discourses, public debates, cultural performances and curated walks to bring visibility to a much-needed question: who builds our cities, and for whom?
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