Archive for April, 2010

Mahatma Gandhi Road in-formation

Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by matias

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.
If [...]

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TEDxMumbai Video

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by urbzman

This is the video of the TEDxMumbai Presentation made at Blue Frog by Matias Echanove & Rahul Srivastava of URBZ on 3rd April 2010.
Click Here to read the complete description of the presentation.

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Updating Visions of a Gloomy, Gleaming, Exciting Bombay Crowd

Posted on Monday, April 19, 2010 by George

“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. [...]

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Photography at the Shelter

Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 by George

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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Tribal Indian, the natural way of living

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Sytse de Maat

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 [...]

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