Ahmedabad Archive
As part of the "summer institute 1969" research-action workshop, we studied three neighborhood areas in the city of Ahmedabad:
▪︎ a middle-class cooperative housing,
▪︎ an artisans' "village" within the city,
▪︎ a "pole," a traditional block structure in the heart of the city.
These three perspectives were structured around Patrick Geddes' "Folk/Work/Place," focusing on people interacting with their occupations and immediate environment.
They illustrate daily and family activities.
The film concept is by Bernard Kohn, directed by Mira Binford. The editing, interrupted and resumed, would benefit from a re-edit.
Context
In 1962, the city of Ahmedabad had a population of one million two hundred thousand inhabitants...
Today, close to two million!
And the outskirts consisted of plots, still undeveloped, but already "marked on the ground," on essentially sandy land with rare mango tree plantations here and there. It was on this type of land that the first school was built.
