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We are now looking for more support and endorsement from different organizations and individuals in order to continue building this archive. Sustaining the digital archive incurs approx INR 7K-10K per annum, and expenses related to oral history recording and digitising the physical archives will vary from one place to another. The fees for editing, uploading, and metadata description will cost INR 30K-35K per month. Young researchers have been working on disseminating these archives and their stories on a pro bono basis so far.
We have initiated a funding pledge form and request that you all contribute to sustain the digital archive. Furthermore, if you have leads as to who would help us grow this project in terms of documentation, research, archive-building, and exhibition/publication design, we request that you connect us and endorse this work.
If you have any other ideas or suggestions, we are looking forward to hearing from you!
It has been a while since we last wrote to you about the growing interest in the Women of Vaastukala Archive. Here are some old and new developments for your consideration. It has been four years since the digital archive went live, and two years since its official launch with an exhibition.
2025
WoV has been mentioned on the global platform: Feminist Spatial Practices
Exhibition and readings related to WoV will also be mentioned on https://womenwritingarchitecture.org/
The project has been critically discussed in an essay by Dr. Mary Norman Woods in "Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now," edited by Dana Arnold
2024
Three biographies are written and sent to a publication, edited, and published by TU Wien Academic Press (to be published soon!)
Launch discussion in Bengaluru about the archive and its processes at Designuru, hosted by IIID Bangalore
2023
W.o.V was invited as a part of the Samatva Exhibition at the India Art Architecture & Design Biennale at the Red Fort
I also spoke about the criticality of this project at the conference on Architectures of Transition at IIC, Delhi, hosted by Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University in collaboration with the Architecture Foundation.
W.o.V was launched in Ahmedabad by a small curatorial effort, Vandalising the Indian Atelier: in search of stories of women practitioners at Arthshila Ahmedabad.
The exhibition was supported with critical discourse and reading sessions, well attended by diverse audiences.
2022
W.o.V was first discussed publicly at the Young Architects' Forum by IIA Calicut
The research methodologies emerging from this project have been presented at conferences at the intersection of oral history and gender representation.
...but a lot more needs to be done!
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