The workshop started at the JJ College of Architecture and by the end of a long day the groups coalesced into the following themes:
(Note: The titles are tentative and may change from day to day till the final Mashup emerges on November 1, 2009 at 6:00p.m. at the Girgaum Catholic Club, Khotachiwadi.)
1. Toy Bazaar
Toys in [...]

Last chance to sign up for the URBZ MASHUP MUMBAI Workshop!!! We will only be able to take a few more super motivated participants along. We have just finalized the list of team advisers and the topics they are suggesting. All participants are welcome to either join a team or create a new one. Just [...]

Bijal Vachharajani writes about the URBZ MASHUP Mumbai in this week’s edition of Time Out Mumbai

Politicians and the media have been debating the plan to build a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji off Marine Drive. The municipality has been busy considering proposals for towering hotels across the city. Matias Echanove, Rahul Srivastava and Geeta Mehta, on [...]

Location: URBZ Office, New Transit Camp, Dharavi
Time: Part-time
Languages: English, Marathi, Hindi
Duties: Update the dharavi.org website. This involves surfing the web for new info on Dharavi, reading the newspapers and most importantly getting updates from local actors.
Skills: The intern will be trained on using the dharavi.org wiki system, uploading text in multiple languages as well as [...]

When we moved to Dharavi, we hoped that some projects would come to us from its residents. There is nothing more exciting than the idea of doing architectural and planning projects in Dharavi and other improvised settlements in Mumbai (and the rest of the world). After all, if Mike Davis is right, this is the [...]