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The Future of Everyday Urban Spaces

The studio looks at the emerging behavioural and spatial patterns in the on-going and post-pandemic situation and how these could become the starting point for generating new design ideas to solve both old and new problems at the neighbourhood level. The students identify sites within a kilometre radius of their homes, in their own cities. The design outcomes will include redesigning - the street edge; the grocery store zone OR introducing a small, public space.

Everyday - Satellite Road

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- August 07, 2020

City: Ahmedabad.

Abhishek Mummithi.

"Look around. These tall and beautiful buildings. Are these the face of cities?" To listen to this audio walk, CLICK on the blog post title.

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Week 3: Crafting the Edge - PHOTOMONTAGES

- September 22, 2020

In this exercise, each student prepared two photomontages. In the first one, they used a photograph from IIM Bangalore - as the background; and superimposed images from their own streets, in their own neighbourhoods - as the foreground. In the second one, they were asked to use their own street - as the background; and create an imaginary condition to reflect utopia or a real-life situation that they might like to see as the future of their city. The exercises of Week 1, 2 & 3 - the audio walk, the threshold maps and the photomontages have been on the one hand, different methodologies to understand the everyday city; and on the other hand, a reflection of the back and forth between 'the real and the unreal' that we have been subjected to soon after the pandemic happened. Some have pointed out that the pandemic happened because man has tried to overtake nature and others who say that man is himself a part of nature. It seems then that our fallacy lies not in believing th...

Kid Mapping

- August 15, 2020

The past 3-4 months have been crucial for everybody staying home, but mostly the kids who had a hard time staying home and not enjoying their vacations or their day of the school. In the following plan of my aunt's house, I mapped the average amount of time spent by my 4-year-old brother in each room around the house. This mapping shows his time spent in a day and the safety threshold. The colours signify the amount of time spent, red being the highest and blue being the lowest, yellow is mediocre. His daily activities included, the meal timing, watch tv, studying for an hour, playing, etc. The lines dividing the rooms which act as walls are basically the thresholds of the place according to safety. The deeper we go into the home the privacy increases, similarly, the living room is the first room which comes in contact with the outsiders, rather than the bedroom. Muskaan Mansuri

Gurukul, Ahmedabad

- September 20, 2020

This utopia is inspired by the ideology of camouflaging the forest in the streets such that no one can differentiate between the two. The streets in the sky are pedestrian while that on the ground is vehicular. There is a staircase from the street which leads you to the cliff of the forest. The larger idea behind this is when the street is seen from the top or from bird's eye there shouldn't be any significant difference between the building/streets and forests. It also has a great futuristic approach that is reducing the built and increasing the greens. Bringing back the forest life and the fantasy forest world. Archita Varyani