Jerry is a storyteller and visual communicator, who has a master’s degree in Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He has worked with research projects around experimental narratives and participatory research and is now realising his creativity as a filmmaker and storyteller. His residency will try to bring out the spirit of the space (Govandi), not just socio-politically, but also emotionally by exploring the stories of its residents and highlighting the interpersonal relationship within the community. Leveraging the power of art to incite emotions and facilitate change within individuals and the community, the installation would reflect a collaborative introspection.

Nisha Nair Gupta is an architect, urban researcher and writer. She is currently a PhD research scholar at Centre of Urban Science and Engineering at IIT-Mumbai. She spearheads the publishing initiative  'People Place Project’ that is invested in urban research, pedagogy and publication, since its inception.
Her residency looks at mapping the people and bringing forth the stories and voices of belonging and becoming. Aiming to create an intimate reading, these stories also build a walkthrough of the everyday life in the neighbourhood and hopes to build a repository of stories for a neighbourhood that is inherently theirs.

Meera has been working with the artisanal sectors in India since 1989. She has worked in various capacities such as development of artisan groups, business management and exports as well as leading a craft institution to national visibility.  She is facilitating a documentation team to discover the richness of handwork that exists in every human settlement. Since the communities in Govandi have migrated from across India, they carry with them memories and skills of the regions they have come from. For the festival, she will be enabling interactions that create new learning as well as a sense of value for these practices.