<div>dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm Shveta Sarda. I'm an editor and translator with Sarai, at the Center for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (<a href="http://www.sarai.net">www.sarai.net</a>). Sarai is an interdisciplinary research and practice programme on the city, media and public domain. For the last ten years at Sarai, I've been engaged with the Cybermohalla experiment, a constellation of dispersed nodes and networks of knowledge production about urban life (<a href="http://www.sarai.net/practices/cybermohalla">www.sarai.net/practices/cybermohalla</a>). I've edited and translated "Trickster City" (Penguin, India, 2010), writings about Delhi by twenty writers from different working class neighborhoods of Delhi associated with Cybermohalla. (<a href="http://www.sarai.net/practices/cybermohalla/public-dialogue/books/trickster-city">www.sarai.net/practices/cybermohalla/public-dialogue/books/trickster-city</a>) My research interest focuses on practices of auto-didactism and their radical alterations within the post piracy digital environment, along with the difficulties posed to writing and thinking the layered conflicts produced by the accelerated growth and violent renewals of urban landscapes and imaginations. My latest translation work with the Cybermohalla Ensemble is "No Apologies for the Interruption" (<a href="http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/no-apologies">www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/no-apologies</a>), an image-text exploration of post-piracy media encounters (2011). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Briefly, about the Cybermohalla Ensemble:</div><div><br></div><div>The Delhi based Cybermohalla Ensemble is a collective of practitioners and writers that has emerged from within the project called Cybermohalla, a network of dispersed labs for experimentation and exploration among young people in different neighbourhoods of the city, that was initiated by Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education (Delhi) and Sarai-CSDS (Delhi) in the year 2011. Over the years, the collective has produced a very wide range of materials, practices, works and structures. Their work has circulated and been shown in online journals, radio broadcasts, publications, neighbourhood gatherings, contemporary and new media art exhibitions. Their significant publication includes Bahurupiya Shehr (Rajkamal, Delhi 2007) and Trickster City (Penguin India, 2010). Their forthcoming publication, in collaboration with Frankfurt-based architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Muller, a consolidation of the conversations, designs and efforts from over the last few years to carve out a language and a practice for imagining and animating structures of cultural spaces in contemporary cities, is forthcoming (Sternberg Press).</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.sarai.net/practices/cybermohalla">www.sarai.net/practices/cybermohalla</a></div><div><br></div><div>At MobilityShifts, I will be sharing notes, reflections, questions and insights from within Cybermohalla over the last ten years and through my current, ongoing engagement with the Cybermohalla Ensemble. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I will be more present on this list towards the end of July, and will be happy to be in discussion through "No Apologies for the Interruption".</div><div><br></div><div>A short note about "No Apologies…" by the Ensemble:</div>
<div><br></div><div>What kinds of questions do lives gather within them as they move between the multiple worlds inside a city and the devices that shape the manifest city? Inside each of lurks a potential to create. It is through our recognition of our own potential that we connect with others. We make for ourselves occasions to actively fashion this world and, in this way, to take it in.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Expressions and frameworks abound all around us, outside us. It is when we speak and give shape to our imaginations that our desire to find new ways of living, to create dream worlds and to collide with what is outside us, gathers velocity. Where despair and despondency of life are withdrawn and you say "I can do it", new travel routes open out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Power creates rules, makes many implements to reign in possibilities and the impulses to create. But force of life cannot be contained; it bursts through anyway. Energy travels from body to body; each environment germinates countless more.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It is of such questions, imaginations and collisions that "No apologies for the Interruption" is an expression.</div><div><br></div><div>To download and read:</div><div><a href="http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/no-apologies">www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/no-apologies</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Looking forward</div><div><br></div><div>warmly</div><div>shveta</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>