Feb 09 2025 to Feb 09 2025 11 a.m.
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7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071
Who builds our cities? Who are they built for? Can they be built for everyone? Can children help us build a city for everyone with crayons? The Happiness Blueprint is a collective reading and poetry writing workshop that creates a space for children to participate in city-making. Happiness City is a manifesto disguised as a poem, aiming to create gentle cities that belong to all. Written by Bhawna Jaimini and illustrated by Deepa Balsavar, the book challenges the norm of cities being made solely by experts and dares to reimagine the act of city-making with crayons and dignity for all.
Divided into three sessions, the workshop breaks down the complexities of our built environment through children’s observations and experiences, reimagining alternative ways of looking at our cities. Using poetry as a medium, children express their experiences of being ‘small and invisible’ and reimagine a city of happiness that changes those experiences.
Facilitator
Bhawna Jaimini
Urban Practitioner & Writer
Bhawna Jaimini is an urban practitioner, writer and mother of two cats. She received the Chevening scholarship in 2023 to pursue a master’s in Sustainable Cities at King’s College London. She is currently setting up the Centre for Urban Commons, a platform dedicated to creating more shared public spaces in Indian cities. She tries hard to balance cynicism with hope in her practice, and her book, Happiness City is a culmination of that struggle.