Gummadavelly Hamsika

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Udyog AshramFrom the iconised to a living memorial where work knits the ashram together
A museum built by Charles Correa to memorialize Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy, located within the Gandhi Ashram, by the Sabarmati river, in the heart of Ahmedabad. The ashram housed people who were living with Gandhi from all walks of like and including the most marginalized society. What tied all of them apparently is not Gandhi symbolically, but is the practice. - self practice and self reliance. It engendering a sense of common purpose, through practice and actually understanding by doing things rather than raising awareness. The programs occupying the largest and most prominent spaces all pertain to institutionalizing what the ashram used to be. Sense of a common ground being constantly eroded through memorialization. The intervention attempts to redefine the iconised to a place of living memorial through the act of self-reliance and practice (udyog). It also attempts to define the two faces of the ashram - the societal and the individual.