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Walks and Spaces: The WALLED City

10,000 m of Original fort wall. 1200 m is left!
> 16 original gates | 12 gates left! | [20 (+1) up-to-date]

Brief:
This is the old city of Ahmedabad. From very obvious sources, the number of gates that exist here are apparently twelve. Everyday people keep claiming a different number, which is often based on personal findings. There is seldom an explicit statement of the relationship between data (measurable and quantifiable in time and space) and interpretation; in other words, there is an absence of scientific preci¬sion. Similarly, due to the apparent sect of people who think that this history belongs to them and them only, both the Physique and the morale had taken beating.

Started to find the complete picture, which will give sense to the existence of the ‘full stops’. All those causes and effects behind the downfall of the Wall, has left less than the 10% of it standing in various locations in variety of colours. The transformation has taken place in different faces and phases, sometimes systematically and at times, insensitively. It is aimed to look into the transforming/ed spatial morphology, affecting the whole to the bits, and bits to the whole.

While today’s modern cities certainly are graced by the reminders of these large for¬tifications, the state that they are in, the utilitarian value; how they blend in or stand out in our present cities deserves retrospection. Also what a wall means to various user groups in a city is incredibly different; it could be an impressive reminder of the past to one whereas it could be the sole shelter and workplace for another. The intention is to explore the around the wall, through a research and visual narrative.

For a city which has lost touch with its past, events like the Ahmedabad Heritage Week is aiming to offer an insight into its roots. What is worth noting and needs social action is how the people are aware of their own city’s heritage. It is common place in most of the cities that the people have little or no understanding of the rich heritage that they are part of. The fact remains that the city has become too familiar for them to notice anything extraordinary about it. What is particularly intriguing is how they “interact” with the structures subconsciously. They sell their wares along them, stand beside them, routinely walk and move ahead of them every day in a hurry to reach their offices or schools but hardly ever notice them.

These artefacts of the history are all dependent on social and historical processes, constantly negotiated, frequently changing, and often strongly contested. Research questions are guided by practical considerations that originate in what I see happening around me.