How does the city speak to you?

For Indian Institute for Human Settlements’s City Scripts 2024 festival, Pooja put together a collection of photographs from the India Street Lettering archives to respond to the provocation “how does the city speak to you?”, raising questions about language politics, digital v. analog sign-making and its impact on livelihoods, and how material and fabrication techniques used to make signs affect our experience of public spaces. The display also included zines focused on the street lettering in Bangalore’s M.G. Road, and the use of tiles for signage around India.