session 7

Affordances and Interventions: Creating Infrastructures of Conviviality and Care

Friday, 23rd October 2026,
5 pm to 7 pm 

VENUE
School of Environment & Architecture
CKP Colony, Eskar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091

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Both affordances and interventions can potentially generate hospitable spaces and new forms of sociality, but as remedial or expansive gestures, they often get sucked into the quagmire of socio-economic asymmetry or are neglected by a dominant calculus of utility. And, on occasion, affordances and interventions can coincide or dovetail. Typically but not necessarily, affordances tend to be more intimate in scale and call for minimal, often behavioural change, while interventions could vary in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and might call for major, often structural change.


discussants

Nancy Adjania
Nancy Adajania's paper will address these moments in capacity evolution by reference to such case studies as the MP Tribal Museum, Bhopal; the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai; JSW School of Public Policy at IIM Ahmedabad and the Dialogue Centre in Kondagaon, Chhattisgarh, among others.

Nancy Adajania is a cultural theorist and curator based in Bombay.


moderated by
Rupali Gupte
(SEA)


This lecture series is partially supported by Urban Centre Mumbai and is free and open to public.