Category: In Focus
Art and the Public
A Discourse on Commissioned Works in Public Space Thirty-five years ago, the artist and writer Robert Morris posed a salient questio [...]
THE DEGREE SHOW
The first day of college as a young creative scholar is one I remember well. There was a hint of trepidation in my steps, a sense of warines [...]
DILEMMAS OF HOME, AWAY FROM HOME
The word diaspora derives from the Greek words for “disperse” and “scatter” and it may refer to people who are settled or living away f [...]
In Between Time and Space
Communities and individuals, whose identities are post-national, not limited by geographical boundaries and often prone to change [...]
TREE ART in the URBAN FOREST at KGC
The Karachi Golf Club (KGC), under the active patronage of the Pakistan Navy nurturing a large civilian membership, rece [...]
Culture, Ecology and the City | Can the Culture of Arts Influence Citizen Participation to Create an Inclusive Society?
In 1962, anthropologist Charles O. Frake defined cultural ecology as "the study of the role of culture as a dynamic component of any ecosyst [...]
Et Tu Architecture?
Architecture is dead. After eons of creating experiences through a delicate, yet surgical balance between form and function, it has now lost [...]
The Camera as Witness
Most technological advances that are of potential use in war are typically tested in prior situations. Photography, on the other hand, has h [...]