In our quest to improve the use of pallet racks for the proposed Social Club in Dharavi, we had a chance to visit Jaaga Creative Common Ground, in Bangalore. Jaaga is a new cultural centre built with this construction system. It was built this summer and is already hosting events and happenings. It was rewarding [...]

“..don’t leave me now.”, Documentary, 16 minutes, English/Hindi/Marathi with subtitles in English, High Definition Video
The Slum Sanitation Program or SSP is the initiative of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The program aims at building sustainable toilet blocks in the slums of Mumbai and training slum dwellers to operate and maintain them. Phase I of [...]

In an email sent to all registered participants on the 22nd of October, 2009, the URBZ team wrote:

Please come with whatever equipment you plan to use in the workshop – laptops, USB modems, cameras books, pens, drawing materials.

And in this email, they’d introduced all of the Team Advisers and their projects etc. I’d decided that [...]

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for more photos.

By Amit S. Rai