Experience

369E, in singular, similar to majority of other buses witnesses billions of dynamic people. People with different destinations, different motives, different perspectives. But what amazes is; inside the bus, it really doesn't matter who the person is, where does he come from and what must be his purpose. The bus serves equivalent to everyone riding, irrespective of his status or motive. Your senses, when inside the bus give a stark difference on the time when you board.

While going around city, one notices a billion things going around them. Some things, are not bothered much about. But some gain attention much more than the others. The urban framework offers and provides ample opportunities to see, smell, hear, feel and taste all around what goes in the environment. And all how we sense is not just a biological process, but is decided by hundreds of different culture abiding laws we have been imposed to over the years of our life. And the manual sensing of all what goes around is what makes a researcher actually know and question about to even refine their knowledge. These training shoes to learn to sense random activities and things that are natural to what now, is their habitat over the long period of time supports the ideology to gain more information. It is important to give attention to the details of every place, obviously along with all the small things that ultimately define the place with what one can sense, but doesn't really give much attention to.

Reading Cityscapes: Bangalore Histories, as a subject, and Mrs Gaana J. as a mentor has taught us how to internalize the feeling of studying the cityscapes with such detailed vision to gain the most out of a venue. To make it manual to study our environment, and to know how to make it natural for every being to activate their senses to make the most out of every moment.