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Spatiality of festive economy in Khelarpada village, Dahanu

Hybrids and Cohabitation
Tejal Patil, 2022


This study aims to explore the changing house form and how it is directly connected to the livelihood of the people in the village of khelarpada. This village is near Mahalakshmi temple in Dahanu in Palghar district. Village has huge rice fields. They cultivate rice in the rainy season. This village has a festival of mahalakshmi goddess in the month of march/april for 15 days. Looking at the economical aspect, this is an important period for villagers. There is the main spine (road) which goes through the village and temple which is covered with the shops on both sides.  

Temporal changes are happening in this village. In terms of houses that are extending, or temporary shops that are setting up in the house itself during the festival. This study is to understand How does changing house forms support economic activities during different seasons?

I am looking at the three cases of temporary housing, shops and the street which is changing during the festival. These cases are studied to understand the spatial and economic changes happening in the village throughout the year. The method of research is through interviews, photographs of existing built form, streets, shops and  sketches in order to map the configuration of spaces and their transformation in different seasons.

The objective of this research is there is a tendency of dynamic built form to get frozen into static form which cannot change. How it will result or impact the livelihood of people in this village. The hypothesis is how this reducing agrarian thing/farming that they are doing is equally important to switch(built form) to happen.



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