Commercial Project
Hybrid | Volume 01: Archive

Client
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture
Editorial Board:
Asma Mundrawala
Durreshahwar Alvi
Kiran Ahmad
Omer Wasim

Editor: Asma Mundrawala

Deliverable/s
Publication Design & Layout | Cover Design

Project Description
The Hybrid is a thematic periodical aimed at fostering a culture of research and writing at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and beyond. 

“The archive is also a means to construct knowledge about the past, in the present, and for the future. Jacques Derrida traces the word “archive” to the Greek word “arkheion”, a residence of superior magistrates, the archons, as well as the place of authority where official documents were filed. The archons were not only the custodians of these documents, but also bore the ability and had the power to interpret and further consign them.1 The archive, thus, becomes a site of hegemony and power, where, and from where, knowledge was/is/could be constructed, construed, and disseminated to further the dominant discourse. This hegemonic presence shapes collective memory through multiple narratives of power, and by that virtue also orchestrates/ fabricates/constructs/engineers the reconstruction of memory. The notion of selective memory and the act of forgetting selectively become intrinsically linked with the archive. The way history is shaped, the manner in which certain narratives are foregrounded, or even created, while others are forgotten, neglected or excluded, evinces the role collective amnesia plays in constructing sites of remembrance.” - Asma Mundrawala

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