2013
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
group project with
Ammani Nair, Rohan Patankar, Vani Sood, Varun Bajaj
seminar co-ordinator
Dr. Ranjana Mital, Jaya Kumar
faculty guide
Dr. Leon Morenas
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
group project with
Ammani Nair, Rohan Patankar, Vani Sood, Varun Bajaj
seminar co-ordinator
Dr. Ranjana Mital, Jaya Kumar
faculty guide
Dr. Leon Morenas
Through primary research, we documented the characteristics of three mohallas in Shahjahanabad, Delhi. These findings were presented in a seminar titled By the People: Complexity in the Commonplace.
We learnt that these micro-communities have largely emerged through self-organized, non-designed growth and exhibit cooperation, resource sharing, and respect for public spaces- characteristics that planners value but are unable to recreate.
Our seminar also raised pertinent questions about the role of the designer in such a reality: how does this knowledge of self organization -of unconscious and spontaneous non-design, by the people- affect the designer’s response? Can active design make conversation with this self-organization in a way that multiplies its positives and negates its negatives?
You can read more about the seminar here.
We learnt that these micro-communities have largely emerged through self-organized, non-designed growth and exhibit cooperation, resource sharing, and respect for public spaces- characteristics that planners value but are unable to recreate.
Our seminar also raised pertinent questions about the role of the designer in such a reality: how does this knowledge of self organization -of unconscious and spontaneous non-design, by the people- affect the designer’s response? Can active design make conversation with this self-organization in a way that multiplies its positives and negates its negatives?
You can read more about the seminar here.
