In 2012, I landed on a magnificent opportunity to spend some time, almost a month, in India for a project with the BMW-Guggenheim Laboratory, a traveling think-tank devoted to discussing urban issues in a project-based way, including the conduct of a few experiments on the local citizenry. I was based in Mumbai and I think that over that short period of time, my mind came to mirror the stirring, chaotic, magnificent mess of this city with a storm of ideas, assessments, re-assessments, and epiphanies about how cities, and people, worked. I think back on that experience and others that I enjoyed with “The Gug” as it was called in other world cities as a critical part of my education as I tried to transition from an old country psychologist studying weird, little laboratory-based bits of animal behavior to someone trying to figure out how to apply my methods to issues that mattered a lot to a lot of people.
Mumbai, traffic, agency
Mumbai, traffic, agency
Mumbai, traffic, agency
In 2012, I landed on a magnificent opportunity to spend some time, almost a month, in India for a project with the BMW-Guggenheim Laboratory, a traveling think-tank devoted to discussing urban issues in a project-based way, including the conduct of a few experiments on the local citizenry. I was based in Mumbai and I think that over that short period of time, my mind came to mirror the stirring, chaotic, magnificent mess of this city with a storm of ideas, assessments, re-assessments, and epiphanies about how cities, and people, worked. I think back on that experience and others that I enjoyed with “The Gug” as it was called in other world cities as a critical part of my education as I tried to transition from an old country psychologist studying weird, little laboratory-based bits of animal behavior to someone trying to figure out how to apply my methods to issues that mattered a lot to a lot of people.