New Delhi, May 23 (IANS): Architect Nisha Mathew Ghosh will represent India at London Design Biennale 2020, which was scheduled to take place in September this year, but has now been rescheduled to be held in June 2021 due to Covid-19.
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The India Pavilion at the London Design Biennale 2020 will present "Small is Beautiful. A Billion Stories", a new multi-sensory installation curated by Ghosh. Through the installation, Ghosh, who is an architect, designer, researcher and co-founder of the Mathew and Ghosh Sustainable will showcase the story of India's landmark experiments, ideas, and acts of resistance in support of urban and environmental sustainability1. These pioneering experiments include the iconic forest conservation movement "Chipko", innovations by activists and thinkers to restore the water ecology of an entire city, and a design project to restore a brownfield site poisoned by the Union Carbide gas tragedy in India, among others.
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- 1. The installation pays homage to historical grassroots initiatives by communities and individuals in India, and signals the hope these community-based movements can provide in challenging the current ecological crises of India's booming cities. At the heart of the installation is a two-winged kinetic structure inspired by the modern form of a windmill blade and the traditional Indian Punkha, a manually operated fan. Bringing together art, craft, design, music, and technology, ‘Small is beautiful.. A Billion Stories' assembles a labyrinth of radical ideas developed to combat the pollution of India's natural environment - its water, forest, earth, and air.