Tag: early brochure
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An Early Brochure with The Mother’s Signature
This week we return to our look at early Auroville brochures. This brochure is from 1970, and is about both the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville. The interesting thing about it is that the cover has The Mother’s signature and blessings.
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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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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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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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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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