Towards the autonomous (re)production of commons within and against the state.

The project seeks to question the ways in which the people of Kashmir, India produce and reproduce themselves, in order to create an apparatus for (re)production towards a circular economy independent of the systems of state capitalism. The project situates itself within the ongoing political crisis and conflict in Kashmir to propose a productive network of commons for subverting state control. This growing landscape of commons occurs at the intersection of three events:
 

1. The conceptualisation and development of an autonomous framework for the (re)production of a productive commons network as a form of emancipation within and against state control.
     


2. The construction of an identity for a community represented by its struggles for self-determination, towards a new grammar for the urban fabric. An architecture read as characters, developing over time and rooted in the rituals and struggles of Kashmir.
    


3. The production of architecture through the production of images. Borrowing from the Mughal painting, the image becomes a medium for the ultimate realisation of the project. An ideological plane for the projection of temporal dysfunction, the image is imagined as an incubator for the intersection of social, cultural and political processes.