Mayani Arin Ashokbhai

AR3596

The research is an extension of ‘Transgressing Wilderness’ (Rushika Khanna, 2020) which investigates the wilderness idea within cities and attempts to catalogue and assess the various typologies of wildscapes that occur within the urban and peri-urban matrix. The research focuses on waterscapes that are ‘wild’ in their character to implement them as a learning lab to understand their character and inherent components and elements that formulate it. Since waterscapes are less documented, the existing ongoing research aims to build on a catalogue of ‘wild’ waterscapes along with their floral components. This particular research document attempts a pilot study to foreground lesser known ‘wild’ water-scapes within the district of Ahmedabad that dot the urban and periurban matrix, to acknowledge their presence in their larger matrix and to decipher them in terms of its systemic functioning, eco- logical bearing and its relevance as ‘commons’. The framework of the research will allow one to delve deeper into the action of water as a catalyst for governing certain wildscapes and raise a question of how much waterscapes find bearing as an integrated or constructed response in the built realm.