The waste of a resource that could help India cope

In continuation to the last article on place making in an urban village, we explore Diwale goan to understand various collaborations.

A community-led water supply project as a device to upgrade urban citizenship

On a rainy afternoon, we visited Irfan’s workshop, somehow quieter than the surroundings. We assisted and watched him while he worked, and he narrated his story to us.

After the earthquake that shook El Choco region and Cali, local associations are mobilising to provide basic necessities and build shelters. 

Why is there a Bareilly street in Dharavi when Bareilly is infact in Uttar Pradesh? 

Behind the famed Renaissance hotel by the Powai lake is a small, homegrown village called Paspoli which is home to the workforce of the hotel. 

Similarities between urban villages in Mumbai and Italy. 

This animation presents what Dharavi could look like if it was allowed to continue develop incrementally. All designs in the video were conceived by contractors living and working in Dharavi, Mumbai, as part of the Design Comes as We Build project.

This series of articles seeks to shed light on the origin of the unplanned settlements that are home to more than half of Caracas’s population, but whose stories have never been told. Multiple inhabitants were interviewed and shared their stories of struggles, overcoming hardships, constant improvement and self governance that are the origin of unplanned settlements in Venezuela.