The Museum of Resistance

Museum of Resistance

By Thommen.C.Lukose

The Event: On February 28, 2002 as Gujarat was scarred, profoundly and irrevocably, through well-planned and meticulously executed acts of violence, one space in the heart of Ahmedabad, Gulberg Society, saw 70 persons massacred and most of the houses were burnt

The Space: Gulberg Society, which saw orgies of violence, stand as ghostlike relics even today. In their damaged and scarred walls cracked by ravaging flames, the tiny blocks, apartments and homes within Gulberg Society show evidence of the depth and scale of the violence unleashed therein. Room after room and home after home in this society will be sombre reminders of the horrors unleashed by communal violence.

Chamanpura,Old city

The Intent: The Gulberg Museum of Resistance will be a professionally built institution of resistance to acknowledge the horror and scale of intercommunity conflict that has plagued independent India and will house detailed documentation of the same. Victim survivors of gulberg will be the soul and centre of this museum of resistance and will, on February 28 each year, commemorate the day with prayers and remembrances.

The project will cover the many instances of mass crimes that have dogged us as a nation. The genocidal violence of Gujarat 2002 will be extensively mapped: the Godhra train burning, Naroda Gaon and Patiya, Odh, Sardarpura, Vadodara, Panchmahal, Dahod‌

Hall of names, Yad Vesam Hall of remembrance , Holocaust Museum USA 9/11 Museum Memorial

*Wish tree, Photo wall

Museum & Memorial A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains, and even entire parks.

“Museum attemps to show the triumph of human dignity over human depravity”.

Concept “Affirming an unwavering commitment to the fundamental value of human life”.

Visitors: The youth of India, To bring in fresh perpectives on the issue , and the young generation who witnessed (part of the)event (specific to gujarat). Age 12 to 25,Indians

Experiential Approach: Human Emotions Fear:

Hope:

Fear is an emotion induced by a perceived threat which causes entities to quickly pull away from it and usually hide. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger

Hope is the state which promotes the belief in an outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life .zHope is the “feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best�

Panic: Panic is a sudden sensation of fear which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety

Introduction Installation Panel

Post Independence - 2002 Gujarat riots

Gujarat 2002 How the world saw gujrat?

Brief Narrative Media-Newspaper,,channels Video ,Audio(Theatre)

Riots in India Timeline Photographs Graphic panel

Memorial Architecture Installation Prayer Space Dedicated toVictims

Gulberg Society Depravity Vs Dignity Stories Immersive Environment Interactive Photographs Properties Space itself Interviews Media Reports

Space & Experience

Indentifing the space

For all its history,gulberg society is deceptively calm.And for all the screams that died as quickly as they escaped from the lips of its hepless residents, Gulberg society is unnervingly quiet.So quiet that if you cup your hands around your ear andlisten carefully you can hear the crying.

In the aftermath, The Truimph of a serene acceptance over a vindictiue, Insidious anger.

A tale of finally,healing.this is the story i want to send back.

Nature: Vegetation Lanscaping

Exteriors Memorial

Architecture The architectural approch is through ,Exteriors and Interiors.The Base concept been Fear and hope,the exteriors will reflect hope being the memorial itself and the interiors showcasing the fear of the masscare ,i.e the museum.

Interiors Museum

Buliding ruins: Levels Emptiness

Space layout:

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Content Mapping

Narrative Structure: Main story

Event Memories Resistance

Sub story

Event\ Memories\ Resistance

Event

Memories

Memories

House:1 Event

Memories

Resistance

Memories

Event

Resistance

Event

Memories

Event

Memories

House:2 Event

Memories

Memories

Event

Resistance

Memories

Resistance

Event

Memories

Memories

House:2 Event

Memories

Resistance

Memories

Event

Memories

Event

Resistance

Memories

Content

Anxiety,Fear

Medium

Eshan Jafri’s house Gathered people, Thier conversations,

Experience

Event

Eshans Jafri’s work space.About His past,books, Activities,Achivements

Everyday emotions

Walk through Installation ,with Audio

Diarama, Properties

Rahidha ben’s story (Sub story)

Event

Resistance

Eshan Jafri’s Death.

Zakia jafri’s fight.

Loss, Courage

Hope,

A Typo Installation

Multimedia Interactive screen

Sub story

2

Empty room, Ruins

1

3

4 Move out of the house towards Memorial

Empty room, Ruins

Visualization:

Interactive installation The Visitor should walk through, The maze of Mannequin

Event People gathered inside jafri’s house. Expecting better safety.

Female mannequin

Audio The conversation that happend inside Jafri’s house , When the mob went violent out side Their description about Their point of view

Hurt mannequin

Testimonials written by People about him

His Achievements

Book Written by him, ‘Lantern’

Recreating his office space His desk

Fax machine He used it to get help,during the event

Tinted Glass(Transclusant)

Steel embossing

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