Archive for October, 2010

URBAN TYPHOON Workshop NEW DELHI

Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 by matias

Nov 9-16, 2010 @ Khirkee Village in partnership with KHOJ.

Visit the Urban Typhoon Web page for more info.
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Learning from Dharavi… one house at the time

Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 by miriam

Our  time spent in Mumbai  is already over… it went so fast! Here is some of the output.
We worked on the URBZ building, measured each floor and drew the entire structure. We have to thank Rahul, Matias, Himanshu, Venkatesh, Bhau who have helped us during these  three weeks.
We produced a simple architectural board to show [...]

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A ROOF IN DHARAVI: Quest for Materials

Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by abhi2metal

We are three architecture students from Italy – Daniela, Serena and Valeria. We have been in Dharavi for about a week, and are just getting adjusted to this new but incredible place. We came here after having done a lot of research in school about informal cities. Being here however  is a completely different thing: [...]

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URBZ develops new website for PUKAR

Posted on Monday, October 4, 2010 by matias

URBZ has developed a new website for PUKAR, a Mumbai-based urban research and action collective. Based on Wordpress, an open source content management system, this website has been entirely customized to suit the needs of PUKAR, of which its flagship project – the Youth Fellowship program – comprises about 400 youth researchers across the city. [...]

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URBZ Mashup in Digimag!

Posted on Sunday, October 3, 2010 by matias

Digimag / Digicult a cutting-edge Italian digital art and culture magazine publishes an article on the URBZ Mashup Workshops in its October edition:
Tra la fine di luglio e l’inizio di agosto si è tenuta ad Istanbul la terza edizione di Urban Mashup, un particolare workshop internazionale realizzato da URBz, associazione attiva soprattutto [...]

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