URBZ complements the use of online systems and tools for localities and neighbourhoods with workshops, events and grassroots initiatives. Workshops are integral to our methodology and symbolize the collective spirit that guides our use of online resources. They are the means through which we communicate with residents, provide a means of interaction and evolve visions and plans collectively. It is through the workshops that the online resources get used to their maximum and it is also through the web that the workshops become successful. The Urban Typhoon workshops focus on community participation in urban planning and the URBZ MASHUPS engage residents and international participants in creative exercises about cities.

In a small but significant way, these workshops represent new modes of activism and knowledge practices that engage with realities of the day, realities that affect millions of people.

Our attempt is to facilitate the creation of inclusive spaces in which people participate freely, express their visions and ideas and collectively hone their skills with regard to living in cities. We hope to minimise gaps between self-governance, free cultural expression and  activism, in which the workshops also act as means of bringing us closer to those ideals.