The second article in the Makers of the Homegrown series takes a look at Ciudad de Barrios (City of Barrios) in Caracas, Venezuela. It is a compact and clustered neighborhood with a multitude of residents engaged in producing homes, urban space, and the city.

When people take matters into their own hands...community initiated schools in Dharavi

People with various expertise engaged themselves for a pragmatic yet humane urbanism.

Walking on Mahatma Gandhi Road seemed like being part of a big never ending real time movie.

A Swiss city re-imagines public space and experiments with direct democracy in the process (The Hindu 16.03.2019)

 Social distancing in a participatory process

This text explores some reflections Andreas Ruby started to develop when participating in the workshop "Limites x Limites", organised by Aidec and ConstructLab, which questioned the uses and design of a future park in Geneva's iconic neighbourhood "Jonction".

Koliwada's are fishing hamlets in Mumbai city and unlike most settlements, they extend beyond terrestrial boundaries. The waters of rivers, creeks and seas, all form part of an amphibious habitat that is integral and deeply familiar to the Kolis.