Urban Repository Archive

The Urban Repository Archive (URA) is dedicated to exploring and documenting Karachi through the lens of student work from the Fine Art Department of the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. As art students in Karachi respond to the physical and intangible changes within their urban environment, the city emerges year after year as a vital visual resource. 
Characterised by rapid expansion and limitless possibilities, Karachi serves not only as a site of artistic production but also as a catalyst for the evolving nature of urban craft and research. In this context, the URA functions as a digitally curated platform, featuring documentation of methodologies, pedagogies and fieldwork that reflect the art school’s dynamic relationship with the city’s complex identity. 
The URA is supported by Art South Asia Project and is led by Seher Naveed and Veera Rustomji, both faculty members and alumni of the Fine Art Department at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture.