We feel that the word ‘informal’ has now become another catchword that can be affixed to all kinds of terms to give them a superficial edge: informal settlements, informal networks, informal cities, informal design. The term has not been adequately thought through and glosses over many dimensions of lived reality.
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This is the video of the TEDxMumbai Presentation made at Blue Frog by Matias Echanove & Rahul Srivastava of URBZ on 3rd April 2010.
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“Bombay is a crowd. But I began to feel, when I was some way into the city from the airport that morning, that the crowd on the pavement and the road was very great, and that something unusual might be happening.”

Every new visitor to Bombay, has had a similar observation to that of V. S. [...]

The Shelter at Dharavi has started to translate the initial thoughts and ideas for specialized activities into scheduled programs that kids can now participate in. Drawing on the new connections from the Dharavi 48 event, the Shelter has moved ideas into actions, and the latest class to be offered at the Shelter has officially started.
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While studying photos taken after the atomic blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it came to me that seen from the hypocenter; most structures that still stood were trees. Scorched trees were still up where all else was reduced to rubble. Apparently, the qualities of nature’s oldest living structures cannot be met by human construction. It [...]