Apparatus of Amusement
Re-purposing networks in a post-consumerist society in Irla market street
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Academic Undergraduate Thesis
Semester 9 and 10
Aug’20 - Oct ‘21
Irla, Mumbai
Urban Research and mapping, Architecture Design
Neha Panchal / n.panchal@aoamumbai.in
The trigger that started the enquiry for ‘Apparatus of amusement’ was through the understanding of the age of Anthropocene and the impact that humans have created on the surroundings through the commodified world we live in. Tracing the roots which have led up to this capitalist setting of the society, the factors affecting it and the consumerist strategies which leads to a numb state of mindless consumption by deciphering the epitome of consumerist typology of ‘shopping mall’ and the collective notion of excesses termed as ‘waste’.
The Apparel process creates a network of a circular system which aims to encourage role-players to participate in giving a new life to the self-consumed garments. Spaces for grading, collection, segregation, re-purposing textiles to exchange and up-cycling are materialised through apparatuses. The impact of this system creates a community where the after-life of these garments increases and the loops are closed within the city through a consumerist agenda.
