urbz is invited to host a workshop at Archipelago: Architectures for the Multiverse, a bilingual and hybrid event taking place in Geneva on May 6-8. We explore the city as a collection of fragmented left-over spaces, which need to be reassembled and given new meaning. We borrow strategies from the Collage City and the Situationist movement.
What looks like a city of aesthetic or economic contrasts may actually be a marker of the relation between urban space and individual agency.
Two powerful archetypes — the village and the city — are resolved in a third one: the slum (The Hindu 18/3/2018)
What do young Mumbaikars have to say about their family's rootedness to villages on the Konkan?
Many families live in between two households: one in the village and another in the city.
While New York and London house the people that move from city to city, all acquainted with the etiquette of an urban lifestyle, Bogotá and Bombay are cities of villagers on the road to urbanization.
The city is never already there; it is a perpetual work in progress. What seems disorderly to the untrained eye is in fact often perfectly sensible.
What does the mutation of colonial Bombay into global Mumbai mean for architectural forms and public life?
What began as a regular jostling and tugging of the idea in a brainstorm soon took off as an imaginative exercise that encouraged creative and personal readings of the concept and the making of its visual expressions.
The small streets in the big city are one of the most important features of Mumbai’s fabric.