In July 2016, a collaborative international workshop on Urban Futures, Urban Utopias: Narative, Play, and Planning took place in Kolkata, at the intiative of Barnita Bagchi, Paola Monachesi, and Achin Chakraborty.
Sujaan Mukherjee of Jadavpur University,Kolkata wrote a wonderful report about this event, to be found at