toolhouse

Ching’s story is emblematic of the reconversion of urban village habitats into commercial and manufacturing activities more adapted to their newly urban environment.

While residents may live here and work elsewhere, this neighbourhood also shows a high level of its own economic activities.

The tool-house as starting point for designers to learn from local skills, practices and aspirations.

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.

Design is on the move: it is migrating from the rigid domain of bureaucracy towards the rhizomatic realm of adhocracy’.

The urbz office located in a building on M.G. Road, Dharavi, demonstrates how the conviviality of the live-work dialectic actualizes itself in this particular case.

Drooging around the informal economyexploring the city’s streets that are dedicated to the production of goods and objects