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.

Residents keep intervening and changing their homes in the process of living, and this contributes to conservation

Similarities between urban villages in Mumbai and Italy. 

A global trend may be more fantasy than substance. (The Hindu 17/02/2018)

Dharavi has been an interesting setting for many Mumbai based films. This article discusses a few films from the past decades that feature Dharavi as a place central to their narratives.

Inviting contractors from all over Mumbai to collaborate on designs for homes in Dharavi with residents, architects, and artisans.