ATLAS | ISDI students get inspired by Mumbai Urban Art Festival
A visit to Mumbai Urban Art Festival was an immersive & experiential learning experience for our design students. As one of the key projects of the festival, Sasoon Dock in Mumbai has been transformed into an art hub open to all, featuring permanent outdoor murals and 3 indoor experiential exhibitions.
The festival features a variety of mediums ranging from murals to installations, sculptures to visual art, poetry to performance; all of which spotlight global urbanisation and its impact on cities, while integrating art and play within our urban spaces. Artists and designers from across the world are showcasing their work in the festival.
It is important for design students to see such exhibitions to train their brain, to analyse visuals and to build analogies. ATLAS | ISDI School of Design & Innovation ensures that our students’ calendar is filled with a full slate of guest lectures, social events, immersion tours, exhibitions of student work, workshops and extra-curricular activities to inspire their creativity.
Inspired by the informal economic system of trade and re-use in the country of his birth, Ghana – the artist, along with members of his community, use yellow gallon cans to highlight the contradiction between the preservation and the destruction of water resources.
Together, the artists explore the phenomenon of regeneration, adaptation and evolution of urban centres and metropolises with Mumbai as the metropolis under their lens.
