AntarDhara: Undercurrents
Antardhara, explores how canal infrastructure might become a living framework for memory. Situated at Pomona Lock, Manchester, the project confronts heroic narratives of British industrial progress by exposing the colonial extraction, labour exploitation, and displacement embedded beneath the waters of the Bridgewater Canal. Blending local and global identities shaped by the canal’s histories, the project argues that infrastructure should reflect the communities, ecologies, and narratives of its context rather than operate as liminal neutral systems. Through spiritual spaces, multisensory encounters, and community-led stewardship, Antardhara proposes an architecture that grows with communities, decays with the environment, and adapts over time.
