Assembling the Community Archive Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center
Nandini Bagchee shares her experience of documenting place based stories and assembling the community archive through her work with the Interference Archive, a non profit community archive in Brooklyn.
Spring 2021 Building Solidarities. Trans// Racial Architectures – Barnard College
The Building Solidarities dialogues were organized and facilitated through Independent Study in the Barnard and Columbia Architecture Department in Spring 2021. Nandini Bagchee took part as a speaker and faculty advisor.
Cooperation Jackson’s food sovereignty initiatives help with sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community ownership in the deep South
Read about Cooperation Jackson’s food Sovereignty initiatives in Jackson Mississippi.
Article by Frances Madeson for Nation of Change.
“Remaining Connected”- Urban Omnibus. The Laundromat Project in Bed-Stuy
Listen to a short interview conducted by the Urban Omnibus Dispatches series with Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, the director of programs at the Laundromat Project, Cievel Xicohtencatl, the Community Engagement Manager at the LP and Erica Rawles, a program fellow at the LP. Discussing the challenges of moving into their new home in Bed-Stuy and the arduous task of building a meaningful relationship with their neighbors in the time of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Activist Estates Exhibit
Activist Estates Exhibit Loisaida Center, New York 2020Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida is an exploration of buildings and properties in the Lower East Side that are celebrated sites of resistance. This exhibition curated and designed in partnership with Loisaida Center visualizes the narratives of a historic space-based activism via drawings, maps, models, […]
Interference Archive
Interference Archive Brooklyn, New York 2019 Interference archive is a large open stacks archival collection, publications, and study center. The non-profit hosts several public programs like exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings. The narrow space provides ample storage that can be easily accessed, and multi functioning space in the back that functions as a workspace and […]
Counter Institution – Lecture at Salt Beyoğlu
Nandini Bagchee revisits the spaces where activist groups meet to organize and plan acts of political dissent and collective participation. The term “counter institution” in the title represents both a conceptual and a literal struggle to create a space for civic action in a city that is built upon real estate speculation.
Focusing on her research for the book and an ongoing engagement with questions of urban justice and access to the city, Bagchee will share her methods of documenting and interrogating the history of the counter institution.
Interference Archive – Building For Us Exhibition Opening
Exhibit designed by Nandini Bagchee in collaboration with Marlisa Wise, Graham Foundation 2019 grant recipients.
Counter Institution: Insurgent Spaces – Cooper Union
Nandini Bagchee shares her methods of documenting and interrogating the history of the Counter Institution. Envisioning spatial practices in relation to physical space is at the core of these explorations.
Activist Estates – Gallery Talk with Nandini Bagchee and Miranda Mrtinez
Architect Nandini Bagchee in conversation with Sociologist Miranda Martinez at the Loisaida Center.