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.

In collaboration with local pedreiro Ataide, the urbz team helps build a house in Paraisoplis right from digging the foundations. 

While documenting the work of a local Mumbai contractor, Marie Malchow questions if a different conception of space operates during the construction process. 

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

Can design input be streamed into a process rather than given as a starting point to the construction process? 

Architecture academics makes it difficult for the student to understand the practicality of the profession. This hands-on approach was taken by urbz and the team so that the students could understand the depth of it.

What if neighbourhooods that have been dismissed as slums for decades actually offer viable options for affordable housing? 

Local contractor Amar Madhukar Nirjankar constructs the most affordable house for one of his clients in Bhandup's homegrown neighbourhood.