Tag: auroville archives
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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4 Photos of Matrimandir Under Construction
Four photos of Matrimandir under construction, from different years.
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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
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Origin of the Galaxy Plan’s Crown and Circulation Network
Since the topic of the Crown is very much in focus in Auroville these days, we thought we’d explore the origins of the Crown as an urban design element in the Galaxy Plan. This exploration necessarily also includes the overall circulation network of the Galaxy Plan that the Crown is a part of. What is
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“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
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Then/Now – Irumbai Road
Auroville Archives has a treasure trove of photographs from decades past, and one of the many things we can do with them is compare what the landscape of Auroville looked like when a photo was taken and what the same spot looks like now. So we are starting a series called Then/Now, which juxtaposes an
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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
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