Los colegas de Urban Typhoon vuelven al ataque... Esta vez cambian el entorno urbano de Shimokitazawa, Tokyo (aquí un post anterior) por la comunidad informal de pescadores en Dharavi, un gran barrio de chabolas en Mumbai. En verdad, las cosas por su nombre, Dharavi es el segundo barrio de chabolas más grande de Asia, tiene una población de más de 1 (un) millón de habitantes y ocupa 175 hectáreas.
Urban Typhoon Koliwada (del 16 al 22 de marzo) en un encuentro internacional de arquitectos, sociólogos, activistas, urbanistas, artistas, antropólogos, etc que, juntos con los vecinos y habitantes de Dharavi, buscan alternativas participativas a los problemas de planeamiento y participación que sufre ese barrio. Durante 10 días se sumergen en la vida del barrio para llamar la atención sobre los deseos y necesidades de los vecinos. Una iniciativa muy interesante de intercambio de conocimiento.
Como nos informan desde UT, Dharavi está en pleno centro de Mumbai, al lado del nuevo centro financiero, y su suelo tiene un valor aproximado de 2 mil millones de dólares. El gobierno quiere expulsar a los vecinos para poder expandir el centro financiero y situar allí a todos los "servicios avanzados" que eso supone.
Cierre al Urban Typhoon style: "After having been completely ignored by the
government and public institutions for generations, the residents now
claim the right to develop their neighborhood on their own terms. After
all, Koliwada existed even before Mumbai was called Bombay by the
Portuguese..."
Nos encantaría ir amigos, pero estamos metidos de lleno en la producción de las próximas jornadas (fines de abril...) (!!!). Pero esperamos que este modelo de brain storming urbano se multiplique por diferentes ciudades!
Si alguien quiere participar, aqui hay más info, o el mail está mas abajo...
Good luck mi frends!
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The Urban Typhoon workshop is a multicultural, multidisciplinary and
multimedia experiment in participatory design. It is organized by the
residents of Koliwada and a global collective of researchers and activists.
Architects, urban designers, planners, artists, anthropologists
sociologists, photographers, media artists, activists and other creative
people from India and abroad are invited to Koliwada for a week to
brainstorm together with the residents on the future of Koliwada,
Dharavi, at a time when the city’s is experiencing dramatic urban
transformations.
The workshop will produce creative urban designs for the future of
Koliwada as well as a multimedia testimony to the unique spirit this
community. The workshop itself will be a joyous and participatory
takeover of the neighbourhood. It combines the city’s historic spirit of
activism with the celebratory, independent and culturally dynamic
traditions that the Kolis of Mumbai have always demonstrated. The plan
builds on these impulses in the best traditions of a festive exchange
with visitors, guests, strangers and locals of all shades and hues.
http://www.urbantyphoon.com ///// [email protected]
This year, the Urban Typhoon workshop takes place in the traditional
fishermen community of Koliwada in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest
informal settlements.
Dharavi is a highly diverse residential, commercial, and industrial area
with some of the highest population density levels in the world.
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.
Mumbai, the “maximum city”, epitomizes the transformation that the
Indian sub-continent is experiencing at a time of extremely rapid
economic growth, urbanization, and rural-urban migration. The largest
city in India, Mumbai is also its financial and commercial capital,
making it a strong magnet for global real-estate investors.
Dharavi was developed on marshlands in the periphery of Mumbai. It has
historically been a point of entry to the city for migrants from all
parts of the country. This 223 hectare settlement home to at least half
a million people finds itself today at the centre of greater Mumbai.
Situated a stone’s throw away from the new Bandra Kurla Complex,
Mumbai’s new financial centre, Dharavi has an estimated real-estate
value of USD $2 billion.
A recent attempt by the metropolitan government of Mumbai to sell the
land to private developers (The Dharavi Redevelopment Project) has been
loudly decried as being undemocratic, as it leaves locals completely out
of the decision-making process, despite some dispositions for the
in-situ resettlement of longer-term residents. The government is now
trying to address the main flaw of the DRP, which is the fact that it is
not based on any type of solid study of Dharavi -in physical,
demographic, social or economic terms.
Koliwada is at the forefront of a battle for self-determination that
concerns all of the residents of Dharavi and ultimately all the slum
dwellers in India. After having been completely ignored by the
government and public institutions for generations, the residents now
claim the right to develop their neighborhood on their own terms. After
all, Koliwada existed even before Mumbai was called Bombay by the
Portuguese.
http://www.urbantyphoon.com ///// [email protected]
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