I recently spoke at the 2024 Correa Symposium “The Design Politics of Inhabited World Heritage Sites“, supported by the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism Charles Correa Fund.
The talk, “Fact, Fiction and Fantasy: Qila-Raipithora and the Politics of Delhi’s Heritage(s)”, explored the diverging layers of “world,” “architectural,” and “everyday” heritage around the Qutb Minar complex, and the often-arbitrary boundaries of heritage zones.
The symposium featured several case studies from a spring seminar conducted by Professors Lawrence Vale and Aarthi Janakiraman.
Read more here: https://lcau.mit.edu/events/symposium-design-politics-inhabited-world-heritage-sites
Here’s the full video of the talk.
And here’s the following panel discussion: