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Architecture and memory: Remembering home in involuntary dislocation 

Memory and Belonging
Dhruv Chavan, 2018


There are many cases in Mumbai, and elsewhere in India, where masses of people have been dislocated due to reasons beyond the choosing of the household. Their dislocation has been involuntary and irreversible, often being a result of events or projects that have unfolded at disjunct times and scales. This thesis acknowledges the effects of involuntary displacement and the existing study as well as the measures taken towards it. It argues for a different approach towards addressing the issue, through the memory of home.

In this dissertation I argue that the study of memories of home in involuntary dislocation can help advance a more humane approach to envisioning architecture in sites of resettlement and rehabilitation. This argument moves beyond commemoration and glorification of the past, on the one hand, and engages in a critical conversation with the contributions of Aldo Rossi-and Kevin Lynch in the study of memory and architecture, on the other hand. Addressing these urban memories through thick visual and textual narratives, it states that the sense of home lies within four spatialities : Threshold spaces, Performance spaces, Psychological spaces and Leisure spaces. With this it presents three opportunities for an architectural exploration in the current context of Mumbai through new development, redevelopment, or retrofitting.




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Spatialities of everyday heritage


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Galalelya jaga ("गाळलेल्या जागा"): overlaps of memory and home

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Remembering ghar: continuities of memory

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Anika Pugalia, 2024

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Architecture of a monument: Vasai fort

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Chinmay Kadwadkar, 2018

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On Sindhi refugees: making home in Jalgaon


Memory and Belonging
Khushboo Tejwani, 2024

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Retrofitted domesticities


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Nikunj Dedhia, 2020

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Architecture and healing: civil war inversion of public space Borella, Colombo

Memory and Belonging
Rutu Kelekar, 2018

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Spatiality of remembrance: encounters between the native and urban

Memory and Belonging
Tanishqa Rodrigues, 2020

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