On the 6th and 7th of this month we organised a 48 hour workshop with and for the residents of New Transit Camp in Dharavi. We have spent now nearly 3 months working with the children at the Dharavi Shelter, creating a new platform for art and expression, learning about the residents’ lives and thoughts [...]

Save the date for the URBZ MASHUP ISTANBUL! July 26 – August 1. We are working on the program at the moment but one thing is certain it will involve nomadic explorations, street interventions, human interactions, multidirectional research, information sharing, knowledge production, public action, local activism, global brainstorming, collective dreams, individual expression, wild imagination, concrete [...]

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The architecture of the tourist industry
 
 
The idyllic image of the typical tropical beach often shows that romantic house made of bamboo poles and palm tree leaves. A blue sky, white sands, and waving coconut trees. It is as close to paradise as we can get, and apparently, paradise is very close to nature.

It is no [...]

On 27 February last several cities in Chile were asot a seventh grade 8.8 earthquake in the Richter scale.This was followed by a tsunami that hit several coastal towns, destroying more than 100 fishing coves.From URBZ Chile we appeal to help rebuild these cities. Help us
El 27 de febrero pasado varias ciudades en Chile fueron asotadas [...]