Interactive Installation design + Urban Research
The Urban Bi-spectacle is the first part of an on-going research project on the sensory experience of traversing Bengaluru’s multi-layered, hyper-connected reality.
It uncovers layers of interaction, experience and emotion, and explores the visible and invisible, while revealing the characters, characteristics and peculiarities of the urban.Tracing the activities of various urban actors - from the IT worker to the sex-worker, the traffic constable to the homemaker - we observe a city built on multiple modalities, constructs and constraints; a city in constant conversation: a conscious, dissonant, disruptive city; and a city of generative experiences that intersect and intertwine, weaving the very fabric of our existence.
We examine the multiplicity of the urban aiming to generate discourses on alternative methods of city design, and re-look at ways to analyse and interpret real-time data in an environment transformed by technology and digital innovation.
