Shopping malls in India

[2004 - 2009]

When the Providence Place Mall opened in 2004 and created 1.3 square million feet of an idealized, interior city, I became very intrigued by how private shopping spaces used urban architectural vernaculars to create a simulation of the city. I was part of a four-day experiment to secretly take up residence in the Providence Place Mall, which evolved into a four-year project constructing a permanent apartment in the mall’s unused space. TO build upon this study, I received support from the India China Institute, the Department of Architecture and Design of the American University of Beirut, and a Hong Kong arts collective to visit, document, and create workshops to examine new shopping malls supplanting public urban development in Kuwait, Dubai, Beirut, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Israel and Palestine.