INDNOR-India-programmet

Bhopal's legacy has the potential to create awareness and contribute to research across disciplines as an investment towards promoting is sustainable and equitable development which is a core concern in India's emergence as a nation of rising economic and geopolitical significance. NTNU is a UN Habitat Partner University. The Bhopal workshop falls within the UN Habitat Agenda which states that mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development can be realized through solidarity and cooperation wit hin and between countries and through effective partnerships at all levels. At the event researchers and experts from multiple disciplines will converge in Bhopal and work together with the local citizens in an attempt to understand the tragedy and its s ite in its myriad and complex interpretations. The conflicting history of the site plays an active role promoting a problem-oriented critique of practices in play when utilising development perspectives, revitalisation and re-adaptation. Bhopal2011 makes critical and inclusive perspectives possible, where memory, development agendas and social structuring processes are also given the possibility to participate in creative collaboration. The event sets the ground for this collaborative effort around the po ssible transformation of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy site into a place of remembrance and a resource for empowering the local community. The two week event, from 23 January to 4 February 2010 will have three main parts: the symposium, the workshop and the exh ibition.While the three parts together are structured as a continuous narrative that captures 'looking back', 'looking at' and 'looking beyond'. Organisers:School of Planning and Architecture, India Partners: Norwegian University of Science and Technolo gy, Norway University of Gothenburg, Sweden Modern Asian Architecture Network, University of Tokyo, Japan The International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage, India Chapter Space Matters, India