Trouble in paradise: Iron Ore Mine in Bicholim, North Goa

We have been busy looking at Goa’s complex urban system and networks together with a group of graduate landscape architecture students from Sweden. This studio, taking place from Feb 14th to 25th, is part of a year-long programme organized by Henrietta Palmer and Michael Dudley of [...]

Rahul and Matias were invited to particiapte in a one-day long charette organized by Studio X (Columbia) Mumbai along with Smita Srinivas, Ritu Mohanty-Padora and Gijs Van Den Boomen. Our site was the area starting from the Bandra end of the Sea Link to Bandstand. We explored the village around the Kudeshwari temple which occupies [...]

I came to Dharavi to learn about how people run their businesses here and  to inquire if it is business that makes  street life in Dharavi so intense. What I learned is that it is more than economic activities that makes this neighbourhood a community.
THERE`S BEEN A BRIDGE …
The commerce in Dharavi is [...]

Photos taken by the children of the Shelter at Dharavi are being exhibited and sold at the Kala Ghoda Festival in Mumbai this week. Please come and purchase a photo in support of the Shelter’s activities.
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After some inspiring discussions with Dipti Hingorani (who’s an URBZ member), Sophie and I were invited to organise a few afternoon workshops for the Kids of the Dharavi Shelter, with the support of URBZ. Working with Marina and Himanshu, we put together different playful activities around the topic of global environmental issues. Our aim was [...]