Over the last decade urbz has organised participatory workshops in Delhi, Kochi, Istanbul, Chandigarh, Goa, Tokyo, Seoul and Lausanne besides the cities where its offices are located - Mumbai, Bogota, Geneva and Paris. Whether they last for a week or a couple of hours, our workshops always focus on getting the best out of collective intelligence and creativity. They produce output that can inform vision statements, designs and programs.
Since 2016, students of the Engineers for Social Impact studio at NYU AD (New York University's campus in Abu Dhabi) have spent one week handstorming in Dharavi, Mumbai.
urbz animated a session with filmmakers that foregrounded the idea of locality in storytelling, specifically in the making of fiction films.
Workshop at the Geneva Sculpturegarden Biennale around Yona Friedman's "Museum without building".
Urban gardens are multiplying around the world, responding to the impulse of people that want more green and social spaces in their neighborhoods.
The Breaking Ground Workshop in Geneva involved some interesting comparisons with density levels in Mumbai. Learnings from one space were strong inputs in discussions at another.
Cities around the world are acknowledging that local expertise, knowledge and skills are an effective mechanism to generate ideas, plans and strategies that can be impl
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?
Future fitting is a high-tech, forward-looking, and design-orientated version of “retrofitting”, which can be applied in growing cities from Shenzhen to Mumbai. MoMA workshop notes.