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Dec 17 2016

36h Workshop plage Eaux-Vives

urbz a invité les citoyens invité à imaginer la Plage des Eaux Vives. Les idées ont été présentées sur 100 cartes postales.

#urbz_gva
participation
public space
geneve
usergenerated
Dec 15 2016

The Design Comes as We Build - Exhibition

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

#urbz_toolhouse
#urbz_design
#urbz_dharavi
dharavi
contractor
artisan
dialogue
incremental
homegrown
usergenerated
Dec 25 2014

Homegrown Things

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.

#urbz_Art_and_more
#urbz_design
handstorm
idea
community
productdesign
usergenerated
Dec 01 2014

To Make Housing Affordable, Keep it Local

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.

#urbz_housing
#urbz_construction
architecture
affordable
homegrown
usergenerated
construction
Aug 07 2014

Bogotá to Mumbai: Local Innovation For Sustainability

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

urbz_bogota
urbanology
bogota
mumbai
usergenerated
homegrown
community
Jul 13 2014

The Slum Outside

urbz' publication on Dharavi published by Strelka Press

#urbz_publications
dharavi
homegrown
usergenerated
incremental
urbanology
urban development
May 23 2014

Cairo: User-Driven Housing Construction

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.

#urbz_planning
#urbz_housing
housing
construction
community
usergenerated
incremental
homegrown
cairo
strategy
Oct 22 2012

Unmediated Design - Tool House City

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

#urbz_planning
#urbz_toolhouse
toolhouse
exhibition
design
contractor
unmediated
usergenerated
istanbul
Apr 14 2012

Paraisopolis-Dharavi News Update

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. 

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#urbz_paraisopolis
paraisópolis
dharavi
usergenerated
fiction
architecture
planning
Feb 07 2012

Joseph Grima on urbz in Domus

Editorial by Joseph Grima: Crowdsourcing the City

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domus
urbanology
dharavi
usergenerated
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