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PANJIM: The mapping of Mapusa market under the guidance of graphic artist and designer Orijit Sen under the Visiting Research Professors Programme of the Goa University under the Mario Miranda visiting research professorship chair will begin on December 9.
The chair is dedicated to contributions from fine art, painting, ollustrative Cartooning as part of the programme that brings eminent personalities from the fields of liberal arts, social and natural sciences and other fields to the university.
According to Dr Shefali Kamat of the Goa University, this will be a participatory process which will eventually build up on a dedicated website accessible to the public.
“The main idea behind this project is to explore and document the complex life of Mapusa market from a variety of perspectives – through illustrations, photographs, videos, recorded interviews and data gathering,” she said.
The context for this project is the changing landscape of markets, retail spaces and local produce and crafts outlets in India and elsewhere. The project will look at how a historical market such as Mapusa has evolved, and how it is coping with the challenges of globalisation, consumerism, emergence of malls and supermarket culture, FDI in retail etc,” she added.
“Given that the market is a fascinating, rich and diverse space which accommodates everything from locally grown pumpkins and crafts to Chinese imports and high-end electronics, we’re also interested in understanding the role that Mapusa market plays in producing, sustaining and re-fashioning Goan culture, values and lifestyle,” she added.
Issues like the importance of market interactions beyond that of pure economics and whether these interactions have a vital but often overlooked social and cultural dimension as well will also be discussed.
Sen has trained at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He helped conceptualise, design and execute several exhibition and museum design projects, including the India Pavilion at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan and the Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab. Orijit also works with graphic narrative forms.
The course is open to general public as well as students. Students of Goa University can earn three credits (45 hours) and the others shall be awarded participation certificates.
1The main idea behind this project is to explore and document the complex life of Mapusa market from a variety of perspectives
2The context for this project is the changing landscape of markets, retail spaces and local produce and crafts outlets in India and elsewhere
3The course is open to general public as well as students. Students of Goa University can earn three credits (45 hours) and the others shall be awarded participation certificates.
