Article Published in MINT/Wall Street Journal: Wed, Nov 25 2009
Written by Aparna Piramal Raje

Can the combination of art and academia nudge citizens into being more aware of their immediate environments? Certainly, this was the hope behind two recent exhibitions, Informal Cities and Mumbai Mashup, the latter part of an international urban research project called [...]

This is the latest update to the New Transit Camp Social Club project in Dharavi. We have worked mainly on the interior space and on the exterior walls. The newly designed interior space now functions like a huge staircase, with different shelves (3×4 meters)  built with plywood, which goes up and up, creating many different  [...]

The URBZ MASHUP Mumbai was automated by an enthusiastic bunch of creative urbanists from Mumbai and around the world. They mixed and matched their experiences to re-locate these old neighbourhoods within a contemporary context through their own histories and experiences.
They decoded the by-lanes of Chor Bazaar and re-arranged them in an alternative map that respected [...]

El día Jueves 20 de Noviembre se desarrollará en Santiago de Chile el Seminario “MASA CRITICA, contingencia como base de un análisis crítico” ,Seminario que es organizado por el Área de Historia y Teoría de la Universidad Central de Chile y en el que colabora el Colectivo Metapoli . Participan en el segundo día   “Crisis [...]

La propuesta “Activity Patterns” desarrollada por URBZ Chile, resulto ser una de las 6 seleccionadas, de un total de 67 propuestas que se presentaron a la convocatoria “SCL2110: Arte, Arquitectura y Performance, para diseñar la ciudad”. En SCL2110, Arquitectura, Arte y Performance se conjugan para armar un nuevo lente de observación y operación sobre la [...]