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BRAJ:PARIKRAMA 04

Documenting Stories in Mathura

Year: 2018

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Project Type: Documentation

Team: Ashna Negandhi, Shreyansh Surana, Shreya Bansal & Mokshit Dedhia

Location: Mathura, Uttar Pradesh

The Third Year Study Trip to Mathura, Uttar Pradesh examines the relationship between the imgained and the everyday. Braj is beileved to the the landscape of Krishna whose extent is defined by a parikrama or pilgrimage. Within this landscape three smaller pligrimages were studied.

The series of location along these prilgrimages were studied with respect to their narrative, space, body, ritual, myth and history. The ‘Braj, Architecture of the Parikrama’ exhibiton describes the architecture of these location along the parikrama route and the activites and narratives that exist in that landscape.

The process of documenting the spaces started with this idea of minature which showed the temple,kund, and a meditating landmark of various scale in relation to the landscape around.

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