[Reader-list] Fwd: Urban Typhoon - Koliwada Dharavi

[Shilpa Phadke]

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From: rahul srivastava
Date: Feb 5, 2008 3:07 PM
Subject: Urban Typhoon - Koliwada Dharavi


Dear Friends,

This is an invitation to participate in the Urban
Typhoon Workshop to be held in Dharavi, Mumbai
during March 16 and 22 2008.
(www.urbantyphoon.com)

The workshop is being organized together with the
residents of Dharavi Koliwada, the support of
PUKAR, a Mumbai based research collective and
Asia Initiatives.

Dharavi's Koliwada is a traditional fisher folk
community in one of Asia's largest informal
settlements. Koliwada's village like character
has been preserved even in the midst of the
dramatic urban and demographic changes that
Mumbai has experienced in the last century.

The workshop will produce creative design
alternatives for Koliwada as well as a multimedia
testimony to the unique spirit of the community.
This workshop will also be an experiment in
participatory planning and global collaborative
work.

Architects, urban planners, artists, activist and
legal experts from India and the rest of the
world will work in small teams with local
residents.

At the end of the workshop all the produced
output work will be uploaded on a community owned
website. This material could then be used to
inform any future redevelopment plan - whether it
is lead by the government, NGOs, or local
communities.

In case you or your organization is interested in
joining the workshop, please contact us at the
earliest - through the website -
www.urbantyphoon.com.

We look forward to your participation and are
confident that the workshop will generate
innovative ideas through this rare encounter with
a community in such an open and creative
environment.

The Urban Typhoon 2008 Committee

Ravi Keny, Secretary, Koliwada-Dharavi
Association
Anita D Patil, Director, PUKAR, Partners for
Urban Knowledge Action and Research, Mumbai
Geeta Mehta, Professor, Temple University, Tokyo
Matias Echanove, Coordinator, Urban Typhoon,
University of Tokyo.
Rahul Srivastava, Research Advisor, PUKAR, Mumbai
and others.







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