An awesome Public EcoArt Project with the Metro Station in the vicinity

48° Celsius is the highest temperature that the city of Delhi, India has witnessed in its recorded history. 48° Celsius is also a reference to the exigencies of global warming - which can be felt in Delhi’s continuously escalating summer temperatures each year. Delhi, by any score, qualifies as one amongst the world’s most dynamic and complex urban settings. Like most other urban centers of this country and of the south Asian region, the city of Delhi is characterized by multi-layered historicity and multiple urbanisms that get expressed in varying conditions within its cultural and physical fabric.

With this as the backdrop, and as a combined Goethe-Institut and GTZ initiative, the 48c Public.Art.Ecology Festival was recently celebrated in Delhi. A large empty bucket, a tree hanging from a crane, a hanging garden for want of space, a crash landing, cycle-rickshaws as local story-tellers, a bamboo art, a step-well with a large inverted mineral bottle on top…Delhi witnessed it all this December!

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