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.
"I was fortunate enough to be a part of the urbz network through my internship with them in Mumbai. I then travelled to Bogotá, Colombia as part of their network. Having lived in Mumbai, combined with my experience of life in Bogotá, naturally led me to compare the two cities; their multiple similarities and not so many differences".
What the world’s largest city can teach us about local development (The Hindu 16.02.2019)
The two ostensibly different cities have so much in common when you look beneath the surface.
A series of collages juxtapose Dharavi's landscape with other international scenarios to question if Dharavi's context is actually omnipresent.
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.
This seminar explores the shadow history of Tokyo's rise as the largest and the wealthiest agglomeration in the world.