The "Tool-house for the Future" workshop explores the possibilities of reimagining cities from the point of view of live-work arrangements.

A project that started early in the year with local contractors and carpenters to design ideal Dharavi Homes opens to the public. 

urbz invited local builders from Dharavi with a vast experience in construction, to design the best possible house they could imagine.

80 students design their own vision of one-day workshop where participants had to plan and design their own architecture studios/living space in a homegrown settlement of their choice. 

Ching’s story is emblematic of the reconversion of urban village habitats into commercial and manufacturing activities more adapted to their newly urban environment.

The tool-house as starting point for designers to learn from local skills, practices and aspirations.

Design is on the move: it is migrating from the rigid domain of bureaucracy towards the rhizomatic realm of adhocracy’.

The urbz office located in a building on M.G. Road, Dharavi, demonstrates how the conviviality of the live-work dialectic actualizes itself in this particular case.