City [In] Visible
Project Report II
While in a dialogue with the artisans and other local people from various other professions, I learnt that this locality is gradually taking shape of a new residential place. The people who have recently shifted in this area work in the new Select City Walk Mall and Max and other hospitals across the road and also those who work in BPO.
I became quite keen to talk to these new residents as well. It adds more dimension to my project to show the both experiences in terms of residing in a locality which is seeing rapid changes in recent times.
Week 3
I was fortunate to get a contact of few nurses who works at Max through one of close friends. These nurses are working at Max Hospital and living at Hauz Rani. I fixed an appointment with one of them on Monday after her evening shift. She works in ICU.
She stays with three another friends of her working in the same hospital. We had a initial introduction.
That week I also had lined up a face to face session with the people of from machine made unit on 6th May, Tuesday.
As a part of the project I printed some postcards and posters and distributed them to the people from two unit, shopkeepers in the Hauz Rani area, people working in the Mall and the nurses working in Max hospital but staying at Hauz Rani.
Unfortunately, the face to face session with the people at machine made unit had to be postponed for next day, i.e. on 7th May as none of them were able to work the whole day as there was no power in their unit for the whole day and they had work load at their end.
On 7th May, I went to machine made unit for second round face to face session around in the evening and gave them the postcards I got printed for them.
We had a detailed discussion on various work and livelihood related topics for couple of hours. I and Anuradha both took notes al through the discussions. Joy was busy taking photographs which he worked on and are available to see in the gallery.
On 8th May, 08, as planned before, I went to meet nurses from Max hospital in their house at Hauz Rani. After a brief introduction and discussion they they agreed to write about their experience, anguish and aspiration relation to their workplace and experience of living at Hauz Rani. On that day evening, I ventured out to Select City Mall, which is opposite to Khirki Village to find if any person working at the shops were staying at Hauz Rani or not. I was fortunate enough to find 3-4 people, who were working there as well as staying at Hauz Rani/Khirki Village. I am developing a series of interaction with them within the constrains of their hectic and busy work schedules.