Reading the City Through Its Everyday Scripts:

How Mumbai’s Icons Shape Urban Life

Date: 09 Jan, 2026 | Time: 13:30 | Experimental Theatre

This session brings together ADFF’s curatorial theme, Mumbai Transcripts, with Avid Learning’s Icons of Bombay series to explore how Mumbai’s spaces are shaped by the daily movements, habits, and experiences of the people who occupy them. It examines what everyday rhythms, flows, pauses, negotiations and routines reveal about the city’s changing social and cultural realities. The conversation will bring together perspectives from architecture, visual culture, filmmaking, urban history and everyday practice to discuss how Mumbai’s lived patterns can guide more attentive, inclusive, and imaginative approaches to designing and interpreting the city.