The project outcomes is a careful play of multidisciplinary art forms that focuses on representing the selected spaces. The concern for abandoned spaces, being utilised with vigour and of need is explored.

This Piece speaks of the story of a Repairman.

Conceptualised by Mehwish Abid

Sustaining

The second piece formed its basis on the idea that it is due to the vested interests of so many people involved in making the “house” that it waives the element of “building” and “dwelling” from the existing spaces . It captured the scenario of a whole sale dealer’s plight, of the false promises of stake holders at the time of conservation and uplifting, present day situation of the bazar and shops in Shahi-guzargaah and his disappointments for exclusion of opinion in the process. The habitant of the shop captured in the piece opened up to the researchers after recurring sessions and after they had gained his trust. However, best tales are discovered and explored in adventures full of difficulty and struggle. The audience were asked to find the correct ear phones to listen to the soundtrack of the wholesale dealer’s alcove in one of the vaults of Masjid Wazir khan.  The mp3 was specially designed by merging the soundscape of that space with the talk of its inhabitant. People were also requested to settle the pigeons as a reminiscent of vaults in Shahi-guzargaah. In this piece not only the sense of hearing and visualising was imparted in the user, but his decision making abilities were also provoked to facilitate him experiencing the focused space.

Pigeon holes

The third and the last piece represented its user’s life story . It was inspired from how Often, “things” become antiques, become unapproachable, unreachable, deferred upon higher pedestals. It highlighted how their meanings and experience is for a single segment of the public, in which they don’t have any say or opinion. Such “things” are frequently with a very limited shelf life in our consumer driven society. The designed soundscape of this piece was imbeded in the art piece as one of the “things”,

Things

Architect/writer/researcher/photographer

Living magnets ...