Over the last decade urbz has organised participatory workshops in Delhi, Kochi, Istanbul, Chandigarh, Goa, Tokyo, Seoul and Lausanne besides the cities where its offices are located - Mumbai, Bogota, Geneva and Paris. Whether they last for a week or a couple of hours, our workshops always focus on getting the best out of collective intelligence and creativity. They produce output that can inform vision statements, designs and programs.
Pedreiero Ataide opens up his house in Sao Paulo's homegrown neighbourhood, Paraisopolis to architecture students to learn the intricacies of on-site construction and renovation.
A workshop in Murbad, a village in Maharashtra documents the lives in rural area to find out what the 'New India' can take from it.
Future fitting is a high-tech, forward-looking, and design-orientated version of “retrofitting”, which can be applied in growing cities from Shenzhen to Mumbai. MoMA workshop notes.
Announcing the Breaking Ground Workshop in Geneva involved some interesting comparisons with density levels in Mumbai. Learnings from one space were strong inputs in discussions at another
Beyond the Bungalows of Khotachiwadi: call for participation at a workshop in an urban village at the heart of South Mumbai.
Hubert, Eloise, Lucie and Chloé have all moved to Bordeaux from different parts of France and live there currently. But what's 'home' for them?
