#  Mumbai: Social Research & Urban Projections 

 



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 **March 4, 2017** 

 All day 

 



 

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 Featuring new, largely unpublished work, this one-day conference sets up a dialogue between designers and social scientists. By connecting fine-grained micro studies with broader imaginations for the metropolitan region, we intend to open up new scalar possibilities for Mumbai.

 Please register for the event [here](http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/mumbai-research-and-projections-conference/).

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 *Schedule*

 9:00 am Registration and coffee

 9:30 am **Symposium** **Introduction and Morning Session Framing:** Sai Balakrishnan, Eve Blau, Erik M. Ghenoiu

 **Morning Session:** *Urban Involution: Contemporary Critical Research on Mumbai*

 10:00 am **Panel 1: The Production of Informality**

1. Sapana Doshi, “The Redevelopmental State: Remaking Spaces of Rule, Inclusion, and Dispossession in Mumbai”
2. Vinit Mukhija, “A Quarter Century of Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai: What Has Happened and What Is Likely to Happen”
3. Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, “Generative Conflict: Hawkers, Evictions and Public Space in Mumbai”

 11:15 am Coffee Break

 11:30 am **Panel 2: From the Granular to the Regional**

1. Nikhil Anand, “Breakdown as Beginning: on Maintenance and Invisibility in the Hydraulic City”
2. Nikhil Rao, “From ‘Improvement’ to ‘Rehabilitation.’ Urban Expansion and the Fates of Cooperative Housing”
3. Ramya Ramanath, “Women Negotiating Place”

 12:45 pm Lunch Break

 **Afternoon Session:** *Regional Imaginaries: Speculations for Mumbai*

 1:45 pm **Afternoon Session Framing**

1. Peter Rowe, “The Mumbai Metropolitan Region and the Matter of Urban Form”
2. Rahul Mehrotra, Kate Cahill, “Learning from Mumbai”

 2:30 pm **Panel 3: The Politics of Location**

1. Lisa Björkman, “Infrastructural Afterlives: Dwelling in World-Class Ruins at Mumbai’s urban edge”
2. Vineet Diwadkar, “50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai”

 3:30 pm Coffee Break

 3:45 pm **Panel 4: Mapping the Mumbai Metropolitan Region**

1. Sai Balakrishnan, “Seeing Mumbai through Its Hinterland: Infrastructure and Land Politics Across the Urban-Rural Divide
2. Emilie Edelblutte, “Landscape and Political Ecology Approach for Long-Term Conservation of Leopards (*Panthera pardus*) in a Human-Dominated Landscape, India”

 4:45 pm **Closing Discussion** moderated by Rahul Mehrotra and Peter Rowe

 Free admission. Please register for the event [here](http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/mumbai-research-and-projections-conference/)



 

 



 

 

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