"Life Of An Afghan Hammam" book launch & panel discussion by Tanvi Maheshwari at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 3rd May 2013

Time : 7:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : 'Life Of An Afghan Hammam' book launch and panel discussion by Tanvi Maheshwari. 
On 14 May 2010, when a flood hit Kholm, a small town in north Afghanistan, it damaged a 165 year old public bath house. Hammam Khisht-i-Kopruk was left in a ruinous state, and the sludge from the flood threatened to crack the building open if swift action was not taken. The book explores how the local
community and AFIR, an architectural practice based in Afghanistan led by Dutch architect Anne Feenstra, got together with the Ministry of Information and Culture to save the community’s living heritage in the nick of time with the help of the Cultural Emergency Response Program of the Prince Claus Fund in The Netherlands in September 2010. Followed by a panel discussion on Cultural Emergency Now! Can we
afford to postpone our response to cultural emergencies? A diverse group of thinkers, doers and practitioners share anecdotes from their notebooks, developing a narrative that responds to this question.

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