Category: Weekly Dose of History
-
Auroville’s Inauguration Ceremony
This weekly dose kicks off a series of weekly dose posts on the photos of Auroville’s inauguration ceremony. Many people reading this will already be familiar with photos of the inauguration, which took place on February 28, 1968. Two books that came out in connection with Auroville’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2018 have published many
-
1969 (?) Brochure With Galaxy Plan
By the time the year 1969 ended, many different brochures about Auroville had been printed. The one below (if it indeed is from 1969), is one of the first brochures to include an image of the Galaxy Plan. The Galaxy Plan was shown to the public during the inauguration ceremony of Auroville on 28th February
-
The Very First “News & Notes”
Aurovilians and visitors alike rely on the weekly News & Notes newsletter to keep up-to-date with events and news regarding Auroville. The very first News & Notes (then called “Auroville Notes”) was published way back in December 1975, and was all of 2 typewritten-pages long. This started the long and continuing saga of Auroville’s in-house
-
Inauguration Brochure
We continue with our look at early Auroville brochures. After 1966’s “Nebula” brochure and 1967’s “Macrostructure” brochure, in April 1968, a few weeks after Auroville’s inauguration ceremony, the brochure below was published, announcing the inauguration and enshrining some of the iconic photos from the event!
-
4 Photos of Matrimandir Under Construction
Four photos of Matrimandir under construction, from different years.
-
Auroville’s second brochure, featuring the “Megastructure Plan”
After showcasing Auroville’s first brochure in the weekly dose a couple of weeks ago, we now present Auroville’s second brochure, published a year later in 1967! The first brochure featured the Nebula Plan, and this second one features the Megastructure Plan. In this way, these early brochures, which were published and distributed even before the
-
“Announcing the Formation of Auro Films”!
This week’s dose of history is a one-page tidbit from a brochure on Auroville from 1970 (probably). The last page of the brochure was an announcement for the formation of “A Film and Television Wing of Auroville” named Auro Films. The contents and formatting of the announcement are really interesting, reminiscent of the theatricality of
-
Auroville’s first brochure, featuring the “Nebula Plan”
The idea to establish Auroville started to coalesce around end-1964/beginning-1965, and the Mother asked prominent French architect Roger Anger to design the township for her in March 1965. While the famous model of the Galaxy Plan was ready by Auroville’s inauguration day on February 28th 1968 and displayed to the public during the ceremony, there
-
The First Ever Building Application Processed by the ATDC
We are starting a “weekly dose” series of posts, in which each week we showcase an item from the digital archives. This week’s document is a fresh entry into the digital archives. In collaboration with the Auroville Town Development Council (ATDC aka L’avenir d’Auroville), the Archives is currently scanning all the Aurovilian building applications that
Auroville Archives 