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Author: search.filters.author.Desai, NikitaEnd date: 2019

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    Between insularity and cosmopolitanism: a study on the relation between Urban Space and Urban Identity in modern Baroda
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Desai, Nikita; Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, Madhumita
    Located in the State of Gujarat, the city of Baroda or Vadodara is described a Sanskarnagri, the state's cultural capital and a cosmopolitan urban space. This thesis challenges this image of Vadodara and its current city branding efforts that draw upon the modernizing vision of Sayajirao, the city's industrial entrepreneurship and culturally diverse migrant population; arguing that the city's larger spatial organization, particularly its residential settlements demonstrate a marked preference for the spatial seg- regation of communities. Through an examination of the connections between urban identity creation and urban design, the thesis demonstrates that the Baroda's cosmopolitan identity resides within its public institutions and spaces, concentrated in the western part of the city. This identity is at odds with the traditional (residential) private spaces and their inherent rules of spatial and social segregation of communities that originate in the walled city and its pols. In using Henri Lefebvre's theories of the Production of Space1 as an analytic basis, the study highlights how the formulation and unfolding of the urban plan and urban design interventions from 1885 to 2015 aided in created and continuity of spatial tensions be- tween the spaces of the old and new cities and their respective identities of insularity and cosmopolitanism. The thesis includes field studies of three significant settlements, the walled city pol, Fate- hgunj and Tandalja-Vasna.
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    Kite flying: an Indian experience
    (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2006) Desai, Nikita; Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, Madhumita; Gupta, Anirban Dutta
    The project attempts to create a digital experience of the feisty,colorful flavor of Kite Flying during Uttarayan in Gujarat, for the purpose of promoting tourism and the State sponsored festivities that take place during this time. The information is to be delivered in the from of an interactive CD, that is complete and immersive in nature, covering not only the aspects of kite flying and fighting, but also the cultural connotations of the festival, its symbolism, the history, legends and stories about bung and the more material aspects of the manufacture and sale of kites and manjha (the glass coated kite line used for lute fighting). The presentation will combine various digital mediums Like film, sound, illustration, interactive animation and text in a format that allows the user to explore at Will,the various aspects of kite flying in India, while providing the tourist with quick and simple access to the information he might need to plan a trip during the festival.