Many people involved in urban issues in Mumbai (and elsewhere) have tried their hand at making the definitive proposal for Dharavi. Read more about ours in collaboration with sP+a

Street vendors in Dharavi

Our exhibition Koliwada Charcha was in the news (Asian Age)

How a public health emergency prompted a man-made disaster

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.

The so-called slums of the city are in many ways attempts at increasing affordable housing units through a different construction and financial system.

In a global context, populations marginalized because of race, class, gender, creed, etc. are those most incessantly stripped of this right to design the city in their own image within formalized constraints. In this way, the “informal” urban process of self-construction is inherently a product of this same marginality that excludes these groups from “formalized” city-making.

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