usergenerated

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

Conceptualised by designers in collaboration with users and local artisans, the Handstorm workshop takes objects used in everyday life and gives them a spin to be more functional to the users.

The official target of producing millions of quality homes for all can be re-imagined, as one in which the process of construction itself becomes a transformative moment.

In both Colombia and India, homegrown settlements are present but differ largely in their social make-up. 

urbz' publication on Dharavi published by Strelka Press

Housing must be seen as a process rather than a product: its values lie in the relationship and inter-action between the actors, their activities and the produced house.

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

The connections we evoke between our work in Dharavi, Mumbai and Paraisopolis, Sao Paulo seem to have became a distinct new arc in this multi-city story. 

Editorial by Joseph Grima: Crowdsourcing the City