When Mumbai-based urban designer / graphic artist Nikhil Chaudhary (see also this page) contacted us and said he is inspired by some of our work in Mumbai’s homegrown settlements – we egged him on. To interpret the crazy conversations and activities we face everyday in Mumbai’s neighbourhoods, in his own distinctive style. This is what he produced.
The “Urban Actions and Emergent Architecture:Community Architecture 2019” first Encounter was held in the city of Bogotá, Colombia on the 25th and 26th of October of 2019. This was the first event to ever bring together community leaders, architecture colectivos, professors and students to discuss around the topic of community development initiatives.
Our exhibition Koliwada Charcha was in the news (Asian Age)
Hubert, Eloise, Lucie and Chloé have all moved to Bordeaux from different parts of France and live there currently. But what's 'home' for them?
Cutouts from URBZ’s mural at the Uneven Growth exhibition opening at the MAK Museum in Vienna.
Conceptualised by designers in collaboration with users and local artisans, the Handstorm workshop takes objects used in everyday life and gives them a spin to be more functional to the users.
"My experience in Dharavi made obvious to me the essential gap between pre-conceived / pre-fabricated ideas of a place, and the actual, live, reality of it".
While Warli art has become as gentrified as an art gallery in a heritage urban precinct, the reality it represents is hugely significant.
What began as a regular jostling and tugging of the idea in a brainstorm soon took off as an imaginative exercise that encouraged creative and personal readings of the concept and the making of its visual expressions.