Moulshri Joshi is an architect and a teacher leading the award-winning design practice Space Matters in New Delhi. Moulshri’s professional reflect her strong base in environmental, social and political concerns of urbanism. She has taught architectural design and theory for over a decade at the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi – also her alma mater - and has been a visiting faculty at the Urban Ecological Planning program at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. (More at www.spacematters.in)
Straddling a diverse built & research portfolio, Moulshri’s expertise lies in curating complex, multistakeholder projects that require an empathetic and interdisciplinary approach. From safety audits of mohallas where children walk to school in Delhi to the conservation of the contaminated factory site of Union Carbide – how architecture as a method can solve exceptional as well as everyday problems – is question that runs through her work.
Since 2005, Moulshri has been working in the field of Industrial Heritage – domain of heritage that concerns itself with the interpretation and reuse of old industrial sites. Between 2012-2019, Moulshri built an atlas of India’s industrial heritage inventory – a slow and deeply personal investigation of the vast, negative landscapes that remain in the fringes of our cityscapes and memory.
Currently, Moulshri is a member of South East Asia Advisory Committee of Ministry of Culture Taiwan, an Advisory Board member of Asian Network of Industrial Heritage (ANIH) and Expert Member, Ministry of Climate Change, Environments & Forests, Government of India.
Sessions in which Moulshri Joshi participates
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
In this roundtable we will resume and discuss main ideas and findings from the regular session on "Reinterpreting industrial heritage from a global perspective", which will be held in 7 slots from Monday through to Wednesday morning. During these days, we will deepen the discussion between the session’s participants and other colleagues, while spending time together on the congress’ floors and doorsteps. In addition, we can build on previous reflections some of us shared dur...
Friday 2 September, 2022
Sessions in which Moulshri Joshi attends
Monday 29 August, 2022
Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas confinée, peu s’en faut, Outre les grandes concentrations d’entreprises des quartiers centraux, elle est constituée des réseaux infrastructuraux, d’une douzaine de centrales hydroélectriques et des ensembles manufacturiers disséminés dans une quinzaine de petites villes aujourd’hui intégrées dans l’aire métropolitaine. La conférence proposera un surv...
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-wing populism. Drawing on studies of memory and heritage, I argue that right-wing populists have cornered the market on talking about the past of deindustrialised communities. They have successfully misrepresented this rich and complex history to fuel rage, resentment, fear and reactionary nostalgia. Indeed, ‘the past’, and in particular the industr...
Thursday 1 September, 2022
This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world are directly related to the place-specific trajectories of deindustrialization. In other words: the different ways in which deindustrialization impacts on local communities has a direct bearing on the emergence of forms of industrial heritage. I will differentialte between deindustrialization paths and related industrial heritage regimes in a) Anglo-...
Friday 2 September, 2022
In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mobility and unaccountability of capital, raised by those who were once inside (however tenuously or uncomfortably) and now find themselves marginalized, “left behind.” The desire to catch up again, whether through attracting new investment or transvaluing abandoned sites as tourist attractions, makes this an essentially conservative critique that is ...
Saturday 3 September, 2022
Uncover the vestiges of the Canadian Pacifie Railway tracks and the former Angus Shops, which played integral raies in the industrial and residential development of Rosemont. This tour wi/1 give you insight into the industrial past of the neighbourhood and its new life bath as a place to live and to work.A tour designed and guided by Heritage Montreal. Departure at the corner of Rachel and Dézéry streets, 10 minutes walk from Prefontaine metro station
