ANNUAL RESEARCH THEME 2026 CITY AS MEMORY — ART DECO FILM SEASON · ZINE ISSUE 01 · EXHIBITION · WORKSHOP SERIES · PUBLIC INSTALLATION MUMBAI ↔ NEW YORK ANNUAL RESEARCH THEME 2026 CITY AS MEMORY — ART DECO FILM SEASON · ZINE ISSUE 01 · EXHIBITION · WORKSHOP SERIES · PUBLIC INSTALLATION MUMBAI ↔ NEW YORK
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NOW SHOWING — THE ART DECO EDITION

Cities have memory.

We just help it speak.

InquoLAB is a curatorial platform working between Mumbai and New York — bringing together designers, architects, writers and communities to document how cities are remembered, transformed and reimagined.

Collage — Bombay Gateway of India and Brooklyn Bridge, New York
BOMBAY · GATEWAY OF INDIANEW YORK · BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Postcard — wish you were here
“Cities hold what people forget.” — InquoLAB
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EXHIBITION GUIDE — 2026

City as Memory — Art Deco.

Each year, one research theme unfolds across seven rooms — on screen, in print, and on the streets of both cities.

ROOM 01 Film Season Screenings & conversations on the deco city on film NOW SHOWING ROOM 02 Zine — Issue 01 Our newsletter in print & digital, launching this season LAUNCHING ROOM 03 Exhibition Objects, drawings & oral histories of deco Bombay & NY OPENS OCT ROOM 04 Workshop Series In-person & online sessions — sign up below BOOKING OPEN ROOM 05 Public Installation A street-scale memory piece in each city IN RESEARCH ROOM 06 Articles Essays, interviews & photo stories from both cities ONGOING ROOM 07 Research Archive Everything we collect, catalogued & open ONGOING
Workshop table — mapping memories together
THE LAB — HOW WE WORK

Exploring cities through making, research and collective memory.

Workshops, partnerships and projects that document the everyday life of cities — the stories they hold and the futures we imagine.

BOMBAY 72.87° E
NEW YORK 74.00° W
PUBLICATIONS — THE NEWSLETTER, REBOUND

Issue 01 arrives
in print and in pixels.

Our physical newsletter launches this season — and every issue lives here too, page by page. Stories of migration, neighbourhoods, rituals and everyday objects, connecting readers across time and space.

QUARTERLY·PRINT + DIGITAL·MUMBAI ↔ NEW YORK
Issue 01 — open zine spread
ISSUE 01 — ART DECO№ 001
Read me slowly,
like a letter.
City of Postcards zines
ROOM 04 — WORKSHOP SERIES

Make with us, in person.

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City sketching workshop
MUMBAI · IN PERSON№ W-11

Deco Walk & Sketch — Marine Drive

Draw the world's second-largest deco ensemble with local architects.

22–23 AUG 2026 REGISTER →
Transit mapping workshop
NEW YORK · IN PERSON№ W-12

Ornament & Archive — Midtown

Photograph and catalogue deco ornament, from lobbies to spires.

12–13 SEP 2026 REGISTER →
Zine-making workshop table
ONLINE · BOTH CITIES№ W-13

Zine-Making — Memory on Paper

Fold, cut and bind your own city-memory zine with our editors.

03 OCT 2026 REGISTER →
ROOM 01 — FILM SEASON · MEDIA

Watching the deco city.

ALL FILMS & TALKS →
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Let's build the next edition together.

We collaborate with designers, architects, writers, photographers, researchers and institutions across Mumbai and New York — on editorials, products, exhibitions and everything in between. If your practice touches the city, we want to hear from you.

Gateway of India and Brooklyn Bridge
Two cities. Many stories. One lab.
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