Jaaga, which means space in Kannada, and awakening in Hindi, was born when Archana Prasad, an artist, noticed the lack of an affordable creative community spaces in Bangalore.
Archana,in association with a group of artists created a platform called Samuha to exhibit their work. But her thirst for a “creative common ground” was fulfilled only when she met Freeman Murray, a technologist from California, in a pure chance. Freeman suggested the modular low cost structure of raw pallaks, a structure built from pallet racks.
Within a year they came up with Jaaga, the structure came up on land donated by city-based architect Naresh Narasimhan off Richmond Road. Today Jaaga is registered as a charitable trust, which offering core infrastructure and mentorship to a few tech start ups, conducts educational workshops for aspiring students, it make available space for tech groups, artists & social organizations to meet and show off their work.
Jaaga seeks to nurture innovative endeavors by providing space, core infrastructure, and a diverse social environment. The space is a free venue for networking, partnerships and collaborative work and is open for use to anyone interested in displaying their art, performing a play or presenting a dance recital.
Since its inception, Jaaga has hosted more than 300 events, mostly to packed houses. The first event held at Jaaga was the Robert Bosch Art Grant ceremony.
The structure of Jaaga is a made up of red and blue pallet racks put together and looks like a movie set. Meant for supporting pallets of heavy material at multiple levels in a warehouse the pallet rack uprights support loads of 4 tons each and the beams support loads of 1.5 tons per pair. They can be assembled and modified easily without the need of cranes or any other special equipment. With the assistance of volunteers, the 3-storied Jaaga structure was built up in all of 15 hours. The flooring is made up of plywood and metal wires and the walls are made of billboards. Being fully mobile, it can be dismantled and reassembled within hours, can be moved to different neighbourhoods, cities and countries.
Jaaga also hosts an Electronics Lab where people work on next generation lighting systems, and a Media Lab that enables people to explore new media technologies.
A cool place for work
Fed up with your routine work at the cubicle, tired with the revolving computer chairs and corporate work culture? Well, then it is the time to join the Jaaga Co-working and make use of the Jaaga space to create a fun and productive culture.
Working in a common space led to interesting conversations and the birth of new ideas. With your lap top and internet connection you can make money in a way such as programming, video editing, web design or graphic design.
The idea is for people to form small groups or startups run by founders working alone or in small groups of 2 or 3 could plug into the Co-working and they will get the benefit of a healthy company culture – having other smart people around to bounce ideas off, go to for technical help, or play ping pong in the morning and Jaaga will provide electricity, food and a great culture.
Jaaga Juice
Jaaga Juice is an interactive arts hacker-maker collective comprising of
Archana Prasad(media artist/poet), Freeman Murray(hacker), Clemence Barret(artist/film-maker), Kiran D(maker), Ria Rajan(designer) and Sean Blagsvedt(hacker).
They are interested in hacking cutting-edge consumer and beta technologies to create artworks that are interactive and sentient. The theoretical frameworks that they have begun to articulate and are constantly developing are: Enlightened Singularity and The Living Building.
Jaaga is not just another room for people from all over, its uniqueness be made up of the diverse social environment it provides and the way it look at art in the community.
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