The Sabarmati Riverfront new city walls learn lessons on the vegetal, wetness and dust from Ahmedabad’s old city walls

Adopting his title of “Ahmedabad: Past, Present and Possible”, the studio pays attention to Patrick Geddes’ City Survey approach, however, offering a slight variant in “prognostic” rather than “diagnostic” survey methods. 

Consequently, we add a new dimension to his notion of biopolis. We add Irigaray to Geddes.  We suggest the animate and inanimate are all participants in the space of appearing: for example, as a water lily appears so might we in vegetal fidelity, faithful to our milieu, taking root in a place, without opposing it, adhering ostensibly to the ground graded in wetness, opening outwardly towards the rest of the world, both receiving all but also enriching all with perfumed oxygen.