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Council for Arts and Social Practice (CASP) is a platform for transdisciplinary artistic research and practice to facilitate critical dialogues on cultural sustainability.

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What We Do

CASP provides a platform for arts-based research, process-oriented practices, affective learning and participatory education. Our objective is to employ the arts as a catalyst to formulate ideas on mutualism and cultural sustainability.

Who We Work With

CASP engages with artists, curators, educators, architects, designers, performers, filmmakers, community organizers, social researchers, students and children. We collaborate with people in informal urban settlements, peri-urban spaces and villages.

ACTIVITIES

PAST + UPCOMING | CASP PROGRAMS

RECENT UPDATES

Conversations
15th February 2025

What Entrances Tell Us

The entrance of a house is a stage where residents perform expressions of how and why they own the space that they call home. This space tells you stories of…
Conversations
24th January 2025

Slowness as Practice: Hallu Hallu

Hallu Hallu, meaning "Slowly Slowly," invites you to step away from the frenetic pace of modern life and immerse yourself in a world of wonder through thoughtfully curated walking tours.…
Conversations
30th November 2024

The Artists’ Book: Processes and Materials

Experimenting with paper, drawings, comic-book formats, and paper-constructions, Anirban Saha’s practice has evolved into the form of the Artist’s Book through arts-based research, dialogical engagement, community orientation, and visual documentation.…
Conversations
28th September 2024

Drawing the Lines

Over more than two decades, Uttam Ghosh’s practice has been shaped by democratic ideals around peoples’ movements, social justice, and equality. Finding expression in political cartoons, magazine covers, posters, illustrations,…

BLOG

Blog
28th September 2024

Riverse: Citizen’s Workshop

Riverse, an initiative of the Water Environs Collective, Mumbai, brought together a range of citizens' in Navi Mumbai at the School of Architecture, D.Y. Patil University, Nerul, in the form…
Blog
9th February 2024

Featured Project: Publications

CASP is delighted to share that our collaborative arts project "From Up There They Were Just Numbers" (2019-Ongoing) with artist-filmmaker, Kush Badhwar, on the politics of land, people's protests, displacement,…
Blog
30th September 2023

Community Arts Network: Member

CASP has been featured in the newsletter of the Community Arts Network, Vienna, in September 2023. Please visit their website and social media platforms to engage with the diversity of…
Blog
30th April 2023

Global We Artists’ Residency

Connecting Habitat(s): Global We Artists’ Residency (March-April 2023) curated by the Compound 13 Lab and the Museum for the United Nations – UN.Live, was part of the UN.Live’s ongoing Global…