Light Infrastructures by chaalchaalagency

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Copyright © 2020 Chaal.Chaal.Agency All rights reserved Published by Chaal.Chaal.Agency Ahmedabad/Bogotá info@chaalchaalagency.com What is this document? It is a compilation of work from the design-research collaborative project Chaal.Chaal.Agency, in collation with all the works done by the students of CEPT Univeristy enrolled in the studio ‘Light Infrastrucrures’ developed in the Spring 2020. Edited by Kruti Shah kruti.shah@cept.ac.in Sebastian Trujillo sebastian.trujillo@cept.ac.in Aakash Jain aakash.jain@cept.ac.in

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OVERVIEW LIG HT INFR AS TRU C T URES IS A PRO JEC T OF SPECU L ATIVE DE VELOPMENT. AN INITIATIVE SE T FORWARD BY CHA AL .CHA AL . AG ENCY, TO E XPERIMENT WITH INFR AS TRU C T UR AL C ONDITIONS IN THE INDIAN S UBC ONTINENT -WHILE FORESEEING IT S APPLICABILIT Y IN OTHER C ONTE X T S OF THE G LOBAL S O U TH- THRO U G H A DES IG N-RESE ARCH AG ENDA AIMED AT THE S UPP ORT OF C OMMUNIT Y LE ADERSHIP. THE MAIN INQUES T OF THIS PRO JEC T, IS TO UNDERS TAND INFR AS TRU C T URE NOT AS A ONE-TIME S OLU TION PREDE TERMINED BY THE ES TABLISHMENTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AG ENDAS, B U T R ATHER A TECHNO -P OLITICAL MECHANISM MANUFAC T URED BY UNDERSERVED C OMMUNITIES THAT IS CAPABLE OF TRIG G ERING P O S ITIVE TR ANSFORMATIONS IN THE EC ONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL , AND S O CIO - CULT UR AL RE ALMS, THRO U G H THE AG ENCY OF PARTICIPATORY DES IG N. THIS BO OK, IN THAT MANNER, AT TES T S TO THIS THRO U G H T WO MAIN AVENUES. ON THE ONE S IDE, THRO U G H THE ARTICUL ATION OF A MANIFES TO THAT HAS RISEN THRO U G H THE RIG OR OF PR AC TICE: A G AME PL AN, THAT HAS S TRU C T URED THE L ARG ER -DIS CIPLINARY AND PHILO S OPHICAL- INQUES T S THAT CHA AL .CHA AL . AG ENCY HAS MANAG ED TO S IMULTANEO USLY MATERIALIZE IN DIVERSE ( ARCHITEC T UR AL AND URBAN) E XPERIMENTATIONS. A SE T OF PRINCIPLES

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AND VALUES THAT C ONS OLIDATE A PROP O S ITION TO REINVENT O U T FU T URE. FURTHERMORE, THE ALTERNATE DIMENS ION OF THIS PRO JEC T TR ANSL ATES TO IT S PEDAG O G IC APPLICATIONS; THE S TRU C T URING OF THIS AG ENDA OF CHANG E THRO U G H THE VALIDATION OF ACADEMIC INVES TIG ATION. IN THAT WAY, FROM CHAP TERS 3 ONWARD S, THE BO OK DELVES WITH THE S TRU C T URE OF A S T UDIO OFFERED IN THE FACULT Y OF URBAN DES IG N OF CEP T UNIVERS IT Y ( AHMEDABAD, INDIA ), AS AN AT TEMP T TO NOT ONLY INTROD U CE PRINCIPLES OF INFR AS TRU C T UR AL E XPERIMENTATION, B U T INTROD U CE C OMMUNIT Y AG ENCIES TO THE CL AS SRO OM AS AC TIVE PARTICIPANT S OF KNOWLED G E PROD U C TION. THE BO OK FINALIZES WITH T WO OF THE E XPERIMENT S DE VELOPED BY S T UDENT S, AS A MANNER TO ILLUS TR ATE THE P OTENTIAL S AND PRO SPEC T S OF THE PRO JEC T. ULTIMATELY, THIS C ONS TIT U TES AN AT TEMP T TO TR ANSFORM THE DIS CIPLINARY FO UNDATIONS OF ARCHITEC T UR AL AND URBAN DES IG N, BY R ADICALLY INTROD U CING THE P OLITICAL VALUE OF PUBLIC TECHNOLO G IES AND RES O URCES INTO THE C OLL ABOR ATIVE FU T URES OF DES IG NERS, WHICH WE SEEK TO REINS TATE AS S TRU C T UR AL D OERS AND THINKERS, R ATHER THAN ORNAMENTAL BE AU TIFIERS. THIS IS THE LIG HT INFR AS TRU C T URES PRO JEC T.

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>SEBASTIAN TRUJILLO

After completing her undergraduate studies from Academy of Architecture, Mumbai, she carried out her post-graduate studies at CEPT University, where she received a Master of Architecture within the Architectural Design specialization. After her masters, she went on to work with Shimul Javeri Kadri Architects in Mumbai (2016) and JMA Design Collaborative in Ahmedabad (2017-2018) where she worked as a Senior Architect heading various Architectural projects. Her interest in research lie in understanding micro and macro narratives of lived spaces, their intangible quality, and how they can be translated into small design interventions that impact larger contexts.

As a Colombian architect graduated from the National University of Colombia, he worked several years in Sergio Trujillo Arquitectos as studio coordinator, where he was involved in the proposition, design, and development of several public buildings in the country. He completed the Masters of Architecture programme at CEPT University -within the History, Theory and Criticism specialization- being interested in the function of architecture as a tool for agency, the role of the architect as political agent, the potentials of informality, as well as the spatial/ historical contingencies of the global south. He has been a faculty at CEPT University, a Research Associate in the University Press, a visiting faculty at the Isthmus University in Panama and a studio tutor at the National University of Colombia.

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He is doing his undergraduate studies at school of architecture, CEPT University and currently working as a teaching associate in the bachelors of urban design programme. His interest in the field of academics and to look at architecture beyond four walls and understand it in the larger context, is what has led him to join the faculty of planning as a TA.

DESIGN + RESEARCH + PEDAGOGY DEVICES /ARCHITECTURE /URBANISM INDIA {ahmedabad} <--> COLOMBIA {bogota}

is a design/research collaborative project founded by Kruti Shah and Sebastian Trujillo, which works between Ahmedabad (India) and Bogotรก (Colombia). CCA specializes in experimental infrastructures, transformative design, and transdisciplinary pedagogy, locating their area of investigation in the intersection between politics and space.

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Daksh Tak

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Kanishk Devlal

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

C M Sanandana

Third year, Bachelor in Architecture

Dhwani Doshi

Fourth year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Krisha Arun

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Shashank Shaskar

Second year, Bachelor in Architecture

Vidisha Sahay

Third year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Heer Upadhya

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Naveen Prasad

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Vasanth K S

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Vikramaditya Karnavat

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

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OUR COLLABORATORS STUDENT STARTUP & INNOVATION POLICY Government of Gujarat has developed a policy for providing assistance to Startups/ Innovation. Under this scheme, any individual/ group of individuals having innovative idea/ Concept will be eligible and/ or Universities/ education institutions, Incubation Centre/ PSUs/ R&D Institutions/ Private and other establishments will be eligible as an institution to support and mentor to innovators as approved by Committee.

CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT Centre for Development (CfD) was established in 1996, to address the issue of child labour in the poorer areas of Ahmedabad city. Sustained efforts of CfD got these children back to school. This process deepened our understanding that there were no easy solutions to child labour; it is intricately linked to urban poverty, displacement and violence. For years, the poor in Gujarat have been reeling under the impact of recurring communal violence, unemployment and impoverishment, and the continuous eviction and displacement of slum dwellers in urban areas. For CfD, it has been a long journey that began with formal education for urban poor children culminating in the engagement with rights and issues of vulnerable groups. The ambit of our work thus expanded to work with women, youth, and other critical stakeholders on issues like human rights, violence against women, peace and communal harmony through the formation of two community-based organizations.

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A game-plan manifesto. Infrastructures are a fundamental condition for urban life, embedded -nevertheless- in an implicit demarcation of disparity. Enter your bathroom, turn on the light, and take a shower. Check the weather forecast online to then make a phone call, step out to the street and take a bus. Apparently simple, trivial, even frivolous. These habits however, are facilitated almost imperceptibly by complex and diverse infrastructural systems that nonetheless do not exist in territorial homogeneity: from the most intimate to the most public, infrastructure consolidates not as inert matter, but as a means to facilitate social and political means that are clearly proportional to individual agency . Infrastructure enables the individualÂ´s capacity for action, while being itself predetermined by the biases and agendas of governmental structures. Infrastructure is also movement and exchange of resources, which in turn relate to essential livelihood parameters; infrastructure circumscribes our socio-economic status, the relationship with the state, and even our corporal and psychological integrity. Thus, imagining life in its absence or precariousness implies empathizing in the historical experience of an important part of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban population. One of the main questions of this essay is how to re-imagine these circumstances of disparity as the operational engine of a disciplinary project. A design-research agenda purposed through the engine of solidarity: building light infrastructures. To re-imagine these supply systems from an-other power structure: untied from institutional and bureaucratic rigidity -yet in a space of dialogue and negotiation- therefore allowing to build the territory within social

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contingencies, as an opportunity for experimentation and required invention. An opportunity to generate alternative development operations, surpassing tacit conditions of structural violence i.e. the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dynamics of systematic exclusion. This is a project of sustainability. Yet, a sustainability understood not necessarily as a direct reconstruction of biological or environmental features, but rather the onset of systemic transformations that would make the intervention on these ecological factors more accessible. Light infrastructures constitute a transitional strategy for environmental betterment, by enabling organizational alternatives

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opportunities, which can eventually retrofit into more equitable policies, geopolitics and synergetic ecologies. This then, is a game-plan manifesto. A series of strategic and tactic principles that can trigger not only a specific set of actions and interventions, but a structured set of guidelines of infrastructural development working as a positive index for equality. An ad-hoc manifesto -i.e. a set of inventive principles engineered for this particular purpose, working from the entrails of our design disciplines- constructed not as a utopian imaginary, but as a small-scaled, practice-based blueprint, which are nonetheless aligned with aspired large-scale changes. A game-plan. From the words of John Holloway, light infrastructures could be hence a way of â&#x20AC;&#x153;changing the world without taking powerâ&#x20AC;? (Holloway 2002); acting from the possibilities of architecture, urban design and related disciplines, into an aspirational present of power balance and proportionality.

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Infrastructures are intrinsically political. Infrastructure is usually defined as a set of systems that support the functional city. A series of interrelated networks that provide different resources or services, generally manifesting by means of more-than-human constructions defined by ‘objective’ technicians or specialists. Though a legitimate trope, this seems somewhat limiting. On the other hand “Infrastructural Lives” (Graham and McFarlane 2015) explores a wider understanding of infrastructure, through a series of essays that employ a micro-political lens and hence are informed by everyday, citizen-level experiences. More than a clearly definable system, network, or structure, they propose an understanding of infrastructures as a complex set of social, material and technological processes, which are in constant transformation while being the podium for political power struggles and economic uncertainties: negotiations that shape and polarize our cities. They examine these processes from the “supply” side, exhibiting the social role that infrastructures have as mediators between instances of citizenship, control mechanisms, and even a relevant focus of experimentation for initiatives against climate change, while targeting social justice. Infrastructures in this way, are framed as context-sensitive mechanisms, which are increasingly being conditioned by the participation and expectations of its users. By us. In “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure” (Larkin 2013) Brian Larkin argues that aside from being “matter that enables the movement of other matter”

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(Larkin 2013, 329), infrastructure has a particular ontological condition which obliges us to theorize it as a technology. As such, he encourages us to think of it as something that mediates exchanges and interactions, hence predisposing certain power relationships that are implicitly differential. Furthermore, he adds that these “technopolitics” have the singularity of embodying diverse purposes beyond the pragmatic, explicit, and functional objectives that seemingly characterize these constructions. Purposes reaffirmed by releasing meaningful and symbolic elements, which remind us of aesthetic practices. Hence, a poetic constitution: desires and promises are reiterated through the purposed manipulation of formal conditions, which are in turn utilized to achieve larger political agendas. Now, one of the further reflections that can emerge from all this, is how infrastructures are problematically entrenched as a matter that is limited exclusively to specialized experts, bureaucrats, and administrators, while designers and ordinary citizens tend to be excluded from the discourses these entail. An exclusion by intention, omission, or even self-choice: it goes both ways. Despite being an integral part of the urban landscape while embodying political and poetic frameworks, infrastructures are something that often go unnoticed by those who are supposedly in charge of thinking and acting upon our shared spaces. Designers are absent. Even worse, we –as citizens- have very little agency to act within these conditions given that state monopoly on infrastructures is absolutely naturalized, especially in contexts of the global south such as India or Colombia. In that manner, aside from circumstances of community activism, infrastructures tend to be a cryptic and secluded set of processes delimited to a decision-making ‘meritocratic’ elite. It tends to surface to the public sphere, as long as it aligns with governmental or demagogic agendas. Thus -as Partha Chatterjee describes it in “The Politics of the Governed” (Chatterjee 2004)- we are seen as populations rather than citizens: infrastructure is adopted as an instrumental strategy to mobilize “vote banks” in the promise of rights, but these are ultimately denied in order to privilege property and the perpetuation of an

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established order. The inverse situation, however, can still take place. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Populationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; often seem to understand their power and value as vote banks and hence are able to claim access to infrastructure in return for voting loyalty: people do try to utilize the existing power structures in their favour to transform the built environment. This relationship is nevertheless mediated and underscored by restrictive operational mechanisms, which are fostered in the burden of centralization and tend to curb the agency of regular citizens and community organizations, by employing redundant bureaucratic schemes. This, evidently, is clearly problematic. Not only because infrastructure is in itself the stage for democracy (the setting where the public and the shared acquire political value) but -at the same time- constitutes the safeguard of individuality. Infrastructure is synonym with what is public yet, simultaneously, pertains to something extremely private and intimate. From the courts to your toilet. In this way, from urban to industrial design -and going through any architectural scale- the infrastructural incidence is constant and pervasive. Inevitable, not only from an operational perspective but even from a symbolic level, since it may even be emblematic of the workings of a particular culture: while its absence or deterioration may be a sign of dysfunctional societies, in other cases it may be evidence of resilient and ingenious ones . Moreover, is fair to say that it is evident that part of the disassociation of design disciplines from these subjects has to do both with state monopoly -in the construction and planning of infrastructures- as well as with the value of design itself, within the context of the Global South. This, precisely, implies reconsidering the role of the designer and how we consolidate as agents of change in society: have we become beautifiers of capitalist growth and state dysfunction, or do we have any political agency? This monopoly needs to be broken, in the same way as design needs to be

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revalued. The first one involves the reclaiming of citizenship outside preconditioned channels, the re-invention of political collaboration, and the manufacturing of new organizational dynamics, while -the second- implies re-engineering our practices as fundamental engines to achieve those changes. In that manner, while this entails legitimizing design as a practice that is not necessarily geared through the logics of profit and consumption, it also encompasses broadening the scope of design. An expansion towards systemic awareness and agency, capable of addressing prevailing logics of infrastructural production that are exclusively finance-based, and render them obsolete by exposing their insufficiencies and limitedness. Given the fundamental character of infrastructures and the amplitude of design competencies, the synergy between them can thrive on our current political needs for change. Design does not only need a new agenda; it needs a new value. Infrastructure addresses both.

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From crime without criminal, to the reappropriation and potentiation of a medium. It has been stated that infrastructure has an intrinsically political condition. We know it functions as a mediator of power relations between groups or individuals, restricting or facilitating lives. The question that remains then, is to what extent it can be used as a tool for active solidarity or -on the other hand- a vehicle for structural violence. Now, before discussing what solidarity is (and how it is relevant) perhaps it would be appropriate to briefly map the backdrop to which solidarity responds to; in this case, structural violence and its manifestation as infrastructure. So, although structural violence is a fairly broad term, Akhil Gupta defines it very precisely in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in Indiaâ&#x20AC;? (Gupta 2012). He states that structural violence is not only a phenomenon of circumstantial exclusion -an implicit banning of access to specific resources (i.e. water, electricity, food, etc.)- but a systematic rejection to acquire different forms of institutional recognition and legal rights. Factors that define the condition of citizenship itself: amongst these, infrastructure stands out. Infrastructure surfaces as part of the social contract between a governing body and the governed, which is used -in many cases- to operate as a medium to neglect.

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The most elemental form of structural violence, occurs when someone is prevented from developing their capacities to their full potential, a process in which is usually quite difficult to identify a responsible agent. Structural violence is impersonal. It is embedded in institutional power structures and made up of abstract and immutable guidelines. Crime without a criminal. In that sense, infrastructures can be understood as a medium that can manifest anonymous violent practices, either because of its unexplained absence, or because of precarious and poor design. An expected aftermath, given the production of bureaucratic or administrative arbitrariness, involved in the accustomed management practices of our governmental institutions. Silently and extensively, infrastructures play a very important role as a bio-political agent, which can be assimilated to conditions of systemic disenfranchisement. No surprises so far. However, two interesting questions arise from this, which can nevertheless allow us to reaffirm our agency in the matter. On the one hand, is it possible to appropriate and re-orient processes of infrastructural construction and planning, in cases where they present conditions of structural violence? And, on the other, how to potentiate the political and social function that this medium possesses, so that a momentum of positive changes can be triggered in the urban environment, beyond conventional mono-functional guidelines? This is where solidarity enters into play. In a recent paper by a research group from Purdue University (Einwohner, et al. 2019) solidarity was defined as a way of countering unequal power equations, while opening spaces for marginalized agencies to participate in larger decisionmaking processes. This, evidently, demands dismantling disproportional privileges while coordinating not only the connection between marginalized groups, but promoting action within regular citizenship in order to achieve larger, common goals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Active Solidarityâ&#x20AC;? then, is interestingly defined as a coordinated

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set of actions that engage with the deconstruction of practices that produce intersectional marginalization, while designing alternative scenarios. The infrastructure of active solidarity -in contrast with that of structural violence- is precisely that which opens up spaces for political opportunity. The capacity to participate, decide, and act collectively in an allied, intersectional agenda. Is the capacity to magnify the agency of neglected social geographies. Henceforward, these queries are relevant within very specific territories. Marginalized territories. Geographies where not only informality is an underlying structure, but also the absence or neglect from the state has encouraged the appearance of self-management systems, which frequently allow other structures of contingent democracy to arise. Thus, it is worth emphasizing that the possibility of re-appropriation and potentiation of these city-building processes through direct action, citizen collaboration, and community activism, is a legitimate and needed project. Repurposing this medium, i.e. infrastructure, is in fact an imperative agenda . A re-articulation meant to be used flexibly, under logics of conciliation and sensible progress. A projective ambition based on the strategy of lightness; structures that are unburdened by the wights of bureaucracy, centralized political agendas, and the subsequent consequences of its violent ethos.

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The light-space strategy as the force of nonviolence. Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens propose the idea of ‘loose spaces’, through a very interesting set of essays published in 2007 (Fanck and Stevens 2007). Stemming from the same intellectual tradition as Henri Lefebvre , Franck and Stevens theorize space as a social phenomenon and not as something exclusively defined by formal or material conditions. ‘Loose space’ in that sense, is described as a phenomenon of appropriation with no delimitations by absolute categories: in terms of function, composition and temporality, it is not forged within rigid and immutable definitions, but rather loose notions of operation. It is a space predisposed to evolve, adapt, and transform by and into diverse circumstances. Additionally, it is in itself the space of hybridization since it is constantly amalgamating different conditions of use: it is poly-functional in the broadest sense, which means that it operates from a decentralized outlook having weak links with static -or rather consolidated- organizational arrangements. Its order is not definitive or clear, and its mechanisms of control, imprecise. Now, the idea of loose space can be taken a step further. Aside of thinking this space-production process solely as a matter of relative position to something else (i.e. being detached from a normative establishment), it could also be understood in terms of relative weight, of relative presence.

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Relative permanence. It can be not only the fact that a space does not fit within functional and regulating categories, but that it can provide substantial uses with minor material usages and energy consumption. So minor, that is can be easily intervened and transfigured. It can easily cease to exist when necessary. Lightness as a state of being, adaptability, and sustainability, is also a design strategy. Under this logic, a library can be a transportation device, and a playspace, without even setting foundations. A water purification unit that can be a pedagogical space, and a community meeting place, being at multiple places through the day. Infrastructural necessities are addressed, while working with the minimal capacities of material activity. Radically reducing the intervention footprint with seemingly inconsequential mediations, while supplying fundamental requirements. An apparent design oxymoron. Methodologically, it is perhaps closer to the character of play: designing ‘light’ presupposes a challenging but strategic attitude, because it confronts the weight of monumentality, the burden of orthodoxy, and the load of material pollution, responding with minimal, frugal, and silent retorts. ‘Lightness’ is based on mockery and humour, being witty and quick with unanticipated comebacks. It is a bit of gambling, as it is a hushed planning operation. A practice of negotiation, in which dialogue and learning, even words in themselves, become construction materials. We could further associate this proposition of the light-space strategy, with some of Judith Butler’s arguments in “The force of nonviolence” (Butler 2020). This examination of contemporary ethics and political philosophy, investigates the relevance of nonviolence as an instrument of political experimentation, which radically opposes the destructive impetus of neo-liberalism by encouraging a resistance to its constitutive factors; i.e. corrosive individualism, the

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‘ungrievability’ of certain lives based on identity “phantasms”, as well as the structural constructs that legitimize its administrative violence. Moreover, what is relevant to our design agenda, is how she frames nonviolence not as a passive, introspective, and solitary exercise, but rather as an energetic and vigorous collective undertaking. A project that stands forcefully against processes of destruction and death, almost like a physical barrier that prevents violence from injuring those whose lives are not ‘grievable’. Perhaps a design undertaking, which involves the elaboration of a spatial vocabulary outside of ‘heavy’ institutional idioms, and is capable of forcefully resisting waves of structural violence. A vocabulary of lightness. The light-space strategy then, can be considered as the equivalent instrument for intuitive examination, testing, and discovery of spatial practices that run in parallel to the non-violent project. An experiment of learning in interaction: a collective construction that operates outside the establishment of violence. A spatial-political experiment.

The water filter, Play Methodlogies studio, Spring 2018, CEPT Univeristy, Ahmedabad, India

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Informality as state of exception: an experimental negotiation. According to Aaron Betsky (Manuel Gausa 2008, 208), experimental architecture presupposes the unusual. The ‘experimental’ is not taken for granted, but makes itself evident; it is an explicit participant in the political processes of daily life as it bursts and transforms its context. It seeks to solve problems differently from the conditioned: it tends to be counter-intuitive. Although it may be predisposed to failure till a certain extent (since there is no guarantee for specific results) the risk in itself is essential, because it gives way for radical transformations. Asking difficult questions (experimenting) is an indispensable risk. On the other hand, we could complement this with Teddy Cruz’ notion of experimentation (Cruz 2013) or rather, what he calls “responsible experimentation”. He argues that the context of experimentation itself needs to be re-thought, given that it is typically located in the realms of form and hyperaesthetics. This formal oversaturation of our discipline -where the capacity to experiment is equated to conditions of opulence and ostentation- is problematic, because it usually operates in territories of extreme privilege. Tends to be the emperor’s newest garments. He challenges this, by stating that it is actually from

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the margins of power -the realm of the informal- that the new design and research paradigms are emerging. Consequently, experimentation is evolving as a process of implicit commitment to more diverse and broader issues that lay beyond our disciplinary frontiers. This design methodology therefore, understands and uses informality not as an aesthetic category, but as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;praxisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: a series of material, spatial, economic, social, and cultural operations, which lead to the construction of a much more equitable environment. The informal -in that sense- is understood as a series of practices that are apparently marginal to the centrality of an establishment, insofar as they appear to be independent of institutional procedures. They seem to retain a great degree of autonomy. However, we cannot understand the informal as opposed to the formal, or even liberated from it; one and the other exist in constant negotiation and exchange, especially in the Global South. In that way, we have to think of informality not as a condition associated to a specific economic or social class, but rather as a state of exception. According to Ananya Roy (Roy 2009) citizens from middle- and higher-income groups violate institutionalized rulings -for their own benefits- as much as low-income groups do. Even the state in that matter is not devoid of informality, given that it often attempts to subvert the rules it establishes in order to amass wealth, fast-track prioritized projects, or shift power balances in its favour. Informality then is not synonymous with poverty -or even haphazard un-regulation- but a de-regulation by design. Roy in that manner, conceptualizes informality as a strategy of planning that is characteristic of the Global South, one in which the state inadvertently suspends its own regulations to assert sovereignty over justice and resources, which are aligned to its strategic pursuits. Roy even goes to the extent of saying that informality is an integral characteristic of state power in the Global South, given that it is flexibly utilized in the wielding of territorial power practices. Informality in that way, is framed as a tool of power exercised within the reach of privilege.

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Now, intuitively, the question that arises from this would be; ‘if they do it, why can’t we?’ However, this requires further reflection and a more elaborate retort. For this, Jayaraj Sundaresan (Sundaresan 2017) could contribute, when he argues that the scholarship of informality tends to reiterate the trope of opposing the state -as category of the formal, abstract, and macro- in assumed opposition to the complex processes of (informal) governance that make up our societies, and that are intrinsically woven into multifaceted cultural circumstances. This formal-informal duality: …” misses the opportunity to understand how, in practice, planning processes get embedded within specific socio political relations and political cultures of governance” (Sundaresan 2017, 7). Sundaresan urges an understanding of the ‘state of exception’ brought about by informality, as a form of constant negotiation between state and society, which could be re-purposed as an actual space of governance and planning. Consequently, informality is transposed not necessarily as a powerapparatus, but rather an aperture where different levels of decision-making agencies can meet. A space of exchange; an infrastructure of dialogue. Our challenge henceforward, consists in devising such infrastructure. Envisioning the logics of spatial production that, although may prescribe a new set of tangible and complex issues altogether, can nevertheless open towards new possibilities for the built environment. A task not only of experimentation, but of significant categorical invention.

The Kavaad, Play Methodlogies studio, Monsoon 2018, CEPT Univeristy, Ahmedabad, India

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“Or we invent, or we err”. Simón Rodríguez, the famous Venezuelan pedagogue and tutor of Simón Bolívar, encapsulates through his words the teleological endeavour of this essay. Specifically, in terms of the relationship between liberation and political experimentation, he seems exceedingly relevant when he said that the: “Spanish America is original = original must be the Institutions and its Government = and original the means of founding one and the other. Or we invent, or we err” . This, is a fundamental idea in the argument of this essay. In a nutshell, what Rodriguez argues, is that reproducing institutional systems -which have been thought and practiced under diverging circumstancesis not an option, given that this will inevitably lead to error. The universal validity of organizational systems is, of course, a fallacy. Our challenge then is to invent, inescapably. Now, if we extrapolate this agenda, guiding ourselves through the prospects of experimentation that informality offers along with the promises of light infrastructures -as the force of nonviolence- we could then begin to withdraw a series of projective principles, which may allow us to speculate on disciplinary possibilities. Prospects of design and research. In that sense, we can -for instance- start reconsidering developmental possibilities of infrastructures not within modern logics of unlimited expansion (based on the production, consumption and disposal of limited resources) but from a systemic logic of sustainable models, which rely on the conjunction of small-scale, synergic, collaborative activities. Something closer to what has been termed as “degrowth”: a relatively recent economic concept, which precisely

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aims at the decolonization of public discourse from a modern collective mindset, which implicitly advocates for consumerism, the depredation of natural resources, and the maintenance of pernicious financial hierarchies. In itself, degrowth proposes to rethink production as a process driven uniquely by profit and the satisfaction of immediate consumer appetites, but rather work as a more comprehensive process that responds to substantial and measured needs. In other words, restraint liberalization. Economy then, would become a means to balance social justice, environmental sustainability, and consumer needs (Kallis 2017). “Small is beautiful” (Schumacher 2011) rather than “bigger is better”. The light-infrastructure agenda then, not only assumes environmental challenges by a process of strategic de-materialization and the re-appropriation of resource-provision systems, but also by opening the challenge of economic reorganization. This is a call to assume our contexts -understood as a set of diverse practices- within their own particular conditions and potentials, in an outlook for appropriate invention. Assuming such complex contextual singularities of the Global South, consequently implies the embracing of responsible processes of trial and error, in order to suitably invent necessary alternatives. Invention however, is far-off from the tabula rasa mentality: not the ‘Eureka’ stroke of genius. Rather, it is closer to principles of ‘Adhocism’ (Jencks y Silver 2013). Charles Jenks and Nathan Silver wrote “Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation” in 1972, producing an immediate cult classic. As is well known, ‘ad-hoc’ means ‘for this specific need and purpose’ and, as such, is taken as a point of departure to propose a general and loose approach to problem-solving. Adhocism therefore, works as an amalgamation of the inessential, the fortuitous, and even the redundant; vectors of multiplicity which are incorporated into design equations. An open, suggestive, and rich set of patterns that combine readily available subsystems, set together spontaneously through the same rationale of the palimpsest, the bricolage, or the exquisite corpse. Likewise, by appropriating

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and re-articulating previous knowledge systems onto a stage prior to harmonic synthesis, adhocism -as a design-research methodology- leaves a significant gap for happy accidents and plural adaptations, which can lead to unanticipated encounters. In fact, the practice of adhocism follows conditions that are closer to the do-it-yourself culture, by relying on subjectivity and circumstantial needs to form multiple-functioning objects, which are aimed towards a reasonable and meaningful articulation of the environment. A process that evidently celebrates the imperfection of things (therefore their evolutionary standing) as well as the value of open-ended participation in the quest for appropriate invention. Project wise, this can be quite liberating. We could thus ponder on the possibility of transitory operations, which rely in the amalgamation of existing social-spatial practices exercised on urban networks and systems. A set of concurrent and progressive assimilations that could slowly -but radically- transform (and capitalize on) existing challenges in the built environment. We could then aspire to dismantle structural violence, by re-appropriating and re-purposing infrastructural mediums. Re-invent them. ‘Intervening’ in that case, would not denote a unique and permanent solution to a design ‘problem’, but rather the adaptation of small operational design-subsets, that act immediately to the challenges at hand. Specific spatial-production strategies, capable of being replicated (and thriving auspiciously) within the appropriate social, environmental, and infrastructural conditions. Strategic mediations that not only possess the sufficient self-awareness to recognize their own scope, limitations and eventual obsolescence, but to simultaneously contract enough ambition to address larger socio-political issues in a significant and enduring manner. Infrastructural manoeuvres that allow themselves to be transformed, intervened, transported, disassembled, and reused, while encouraging more robust alternatives to arise. Therefore, the present proposal: inventing light infrastructures as a response to the socio-political challenges and opportunities of our states of informality.

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Evolving architectures that, although can be easily misunderstood as objective interventions, are set in a developmental scope of triggering positive transitions, especially in contexts of scarcity and conflict. Therefore, it is evidently not a matter of singularity, but of scalable cooperativity aimed at structural incidence of institutional frameworks and territorial decision-making processes. What begins with a small (exceptional) response, can trigger the transformation of a neighbourhood, a city, a discipline. Light infrastructures are ought to incorporate the invisible processes that support urban life into design outcomes, making them participant in everyday power relations under equitable frameworks. Open protocols for ecological improvement, pedagogical support, and economic restructuring.

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How to change the world infrastructure without taking power. More than a straightforward instructive, this is a tongue-in-cheek, openended investigation within the horizon of our possibilities. A wink to John Holloway. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Change the World without Taking Power: The meaning of Revolution Todayâ&#x20AC;? (Holloway 2002) he brings forward an interesting set of arguments, in reference to the different forms of power. According to him, the difference between power-over and power-to, lies in a fundamental relational difference. While the former predisposes a condition of domination and control of someoneover-another, the latter is equivalent to a capacity for collective action. Powerto amounts for the possibility of enacting change in the world through small, yet meaningful acts of collaboration; through the exercise of nonviolence. Not taking over. Indeed, an accessible, citizen-based instrument that -if employed strategically- can reverberate in large scale and structural transformations, without resorting to channels that the power-over logic often employs; i.e. those of domination and violence. Power-to capitalizes on individual capacities and thrives within the synergies these produce; a category of potentiality that exceeds in the superior effectiveness of nonviolent resistance.

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Needless to say, the agenda behind the invention of light infrastructures -situated in the territory of ‘informal’ dialogue and negotiation- is aligned to the possibilities of the latter. The power-to change the world in this arena, translates into transforming ‘the infrastructure’ in two levels: the political and the projective. Firstly, transform the understanding of infrastructures from an objective background of everyday activities, to a set of techno-political processes that deliberately mediate and determine the relation between bodies and their environments, while frequently perpetuating structural violence. This understanding is therefore fuelled by the practice of active solidarity, as a tool not only to empathize with social-geographies that are located in the receiving end of this situation, but to deconstruct structures of disenfranchisement while opening the necessary spaces to negotiate new alternatives. This transformation, is aimed at capitalizing on the possibilities of the ‘state of exception’ that informality offers as a path to the invention of other organizational systems, which can be fundamentally based on a nonviolent agenda. The politics of infrastructures then, would be those of collaboration, negotiation and dialogue; a proposition that departs from the informal as field of action, towards the transformation of the substrates of power. This backdrop, evidently fuels the projective agency of light infrastructures. This pertains to the alignment of the research-design agenda -in pertinent disciplines such as architecture or urban design- with the re-appropriation of shared systems, common urban spaces, and functional structures that make up our built environment. Technological circumstances, critical networks, and extended systems: re-imagine infrastructure as a tool for liberation. An opportunity for responsible and supportive experimentation that predisposes inventive values, imagining futures of power equity, economic restructuring, drastic environmental improvement, and the potentiation of our social relations. A paradigm of learning through action, radically focalized in the problematics of everyday citizenship. Ultimately, this is about changing the world through a gradual revolution in

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the built environment. A transmutation of the meanings and materialities that comprise our infrastructures. Within that line of thought, Richard Sennett and Pablo Sendra recently coauthored “Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City” (Sennett y Sendra 2020), in which they examine ‘new’ city-making understandings that move beyond the utilitarian-rationalist approach, into what they term as “infrastructures for disorder”. Not entirely ‘new’ notions however, given that it functions as an extension of Sennett’s “The Uses of Disorder” from 1970, in which he celebrates the benefits of a dense, diverse, disorderly, and dynamic metropolis, in view of the expansion of the “secure cocoons” that the suburban lifestyle has been advocating for since then. Along with Pablo Sendra, this is reframed from the prospective capacities of social infrastructures in the XXI century, through a set of principles that challenge the stifled, profit-oriented, and surveillance-based urbanism that drive the top-down construction of global cities. And although this dissertation is broadly structured form an Anglo-Saxon and euro-centric perspective, there are two concepts worth highlighting in our scope: incomplete forms and nonlinear narratives. The former, suggests the possibility of an infrastructural environment that is never fully designed, in such a way that urban structures are permeable to the intervention and the completing initiative of citizens; towards the construction of an “open city”. Stemming from this, the latter -i.e. nonlinear narrativesdeliberates on the idea that the spontaneous assemblages of (sometimes incoherent) architectures, encourages the progressive aggregation of diversified stories and meanings, which comprise a more empowering sense of collective memory. Henceforward, we can position the idea of light infrastructures itself as a notion within that process of completion, which can lead towards a more plural and open-ended construction of our social environments. Open, free narratives. Light infrastructures could be set as an array of transitional techno-

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political tactics, capable of feeding into larger environmental strategies, which themselves gravitate around the materialisation of more equitable systems. Light infrastructures, both as a technique of communication as well as a method of understanding and assert a claim upon resources, can arrange the guidelines for organizational futures where â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;freedomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; -in its multiple forms- is ensured. Something closer to Amartya Senâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understanding of development (Sen 1999): an overarching process where political freedom, economic facilities, social opportunities, guaranties of governmental transparency and protective securities, are the means -and the end- to advance as society. This, as a game-plan manifesto to construct them.

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1. Agency -according to sociologist Anthony Giddens- is the capacity of an agent (individual) to act independently from the power structures that make up a cultural environment. While religion, capitalism or patriarchy could be said as structures that somehow determine behaviors or hierarchical relationships, skepticism or even activism could be understood ways of exerting agency within them. 2. Design-Research is a relatively recent area of study within the disciplines of the built environment, wherein methodologies of doing vis-a-vis thinking are used in an interlaced and even interchangeable manner, without strict binary differentiations. 3. Beyond ‘The Broken Windows Theory’; referring to the article “Broken Windows” by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, whose hypothesis is that maintaining an urban landscape in good condition directly affects the decrease of vandalism and crime rates. An oversimplification, given that these detrimental factors are symptoms of larger structural processes, which interlace in very complex and circumstantial conditions. That image of decay (broken windows) ends up being another resultant of profound dynamics of deterioration. 4. A larger project that, nevertheless, is framed within a compelling history. Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till in “Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture” widely documented and studied a multiplicity of examples around the world through a theoretical framework that allowed them to be assimilate it into the professional practice of architecture, urban design and allied disciplines. 5. Henri Lefebvre in his book “The Production of Space” (1974) develops extensively the idea that “(social) space is a (social) product”. Henceforward, it is not an abstract, disembodied notion, but rather a resultant from the interactions, exchanges and appropriations that we set forward in our everyday life. 6. This quote is taken literally from the Complete Works (1: 343) of Simón Rodríguez.

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THE STUDIO AS S TATED BEFORE, LIG HT INFR AS TRU C T URES WAS OFFERED AS A DES IG N-RESE ARCH S T UDIO IN THE FACULT Y OF URBAN DES IG N OF CEP T UNIVERS IT Y ( AHMED ABAD, INDIA ) IN E ARLY 2020. AS AN E X TENS ION OF C CAÂ´S G AME PL AN MANIFES TO, THE PEDAG O G IC PRO JEC T WAS S TRU C T URED BY KRU TI SHAH AND SEBAS TIAN TRUJILLO, WHEREIN KRU TI WO ULD TAKE THE LE AD ROLE AS S T UDIO T U TOR IN THE C O URSE WITH THE AS S IS TANCE OF A AK ASH JAIN AS TE ACHING AS S O CIATE. THIRTEEN S T UDENT S OP TED FOR THE S T UDIO, AND EMBARKED IN A PRO CES S OF C O -DES IG N THAT WO ULD L ATER RES ULT IN T WO FINAL PROP O SAL S.

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A creative paradigm framed within the process of collaboration where -through different sets of iterations- the final outcome capitalizes on the combined skills and knowledge of each contributor, while surfacing individual aptitudes and reaches. It is not only an enriching and productive technique (fundamental for urban designers) but also pedagogical approach to incentivise self-awareness and negotiating skills.

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that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;endâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in its implementation. The object of design then, will be a transportable architectural object that can accommodate diverse productive activities infrastructural

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Mobile carts modified to suit the particularities of each vendor.

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A large part of Indian cities is structured around temporal landscapes of ‘laris’ or mobile carts for informal commerce, ‘katlas’ or ‘light woven beds’ used as seats when kept outside in the public realm. It is these devices or objects along with the agency of people that produce space for a

certain period that does not leave a trace of its presence and is easily replaceable by another kind of function in a matter of minutes. It is with this idea that the studio would like to bring forth the idea of urbanity as temporal, reversible, disassembleable, movable and so on.

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STUDIO STRUCTURE The s tr uc ture of the s tudio fluc tuated bet ween lec tures and discussions on the theories of infras truc ture and design ac tivism, to prac tic al de velopments of infras truc tures. A design-research inques t, materialized in the form of implementation manual s (containing working drawings, op erational model s, on-ground s trategies, market research, s tep-by-s tep cons truc tion processes, and its impac t on the urban contex t). However, the overall methodologic al format was set within an inverse logic: the s tudio began with an exercise of design, to eventually use it as a tool of research. This means that the ‘design outcome’ was used to evaluate, unders tand, and eventually trans form a specific site, while it trans formed itself through iterative cycles that ‘ended’ in an implementation manual. These dynamic s were organized in t wo sub sequent formats. Firs tly, an initial phase s tr uctured as a competition, wherein pairs of s tudents developed proposal s for one of the t wo brief s presented to them (which were contingent to either of the sites selec ted) out of which t wo final groups were selec ted by a panel of ex ternal re viewers. This resulted in the consolidation of t wo

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main projec ts which were to be developed as implementation manual s. Fur ther on, a subsequent second phase of cooperative work initiated bet ween s tudents and f acult y, concentrating in the c apitalization of both individual creativit y and collec tive intelligence to obtain a set of highly-detailed projec ts. More specific ally, this was s tr uc tures in four dif ferent modules: co -design, design development, cons truction manual, and systemic thinking.

CO-DESIGN Students were introduced to the sites of intervention and their respective briefs. Then onwards, a competition format was established wherein each group of two students were to propose an appropriate design as a response to the given briefs. At the end of this module, two projects (one for each site) would be selected to be further developed.

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After the selection of the proposals by faculty members and community leaders, students were reorganized in two groups that subsequently developed the required technical drawings, while elaborating operational models to facilitate construction with mockups and an extensive market survey. Additionally, students exchanged constantly with the end users in order to understand further design particularities.

For four weeks, students were challenged with the different sets of tasks entailed in the process of materialization: efficient planning and coordination of agencies, material estimation, assemblage and redesign, ďŹ nishing and so on. This pushed the students to investigate their propositions through a more empirical act of making. The output for this module was then conceptualised as a manual of construction that acts as a step by step guide to build the urban devices.

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Having both devices ďŹ nished, students were to now use the device as way to understand the larger system and how it has an impact on that system. To do so, the students were asked to pick a lens through which they were going understand the placement of the device into an existing system and would speculate the changes it could bring about to that system.

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SITES The two sites selected, were henceforth understood not necessarily as a determined geographical area where a construction could take place -in purely pragmatical termsbut rather a convoluted set of relations, networks, and systems, which ranged from the ecological and climatic to the social and political. When we talk about a site, we talk about the embedded infrastructural conditions of a space, which need to be analysed in a sensible and nuanced manner taking into account that -as a web of relations- these are constantly changing and adapting to different circumstances.

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>New Faisal Nagar The 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saw a major development of informal settlements along the peripheries of Ahmedabad: New Faisalnagar is one of them. Located south of the walled city of old Ahmedabad and between the Pirana dumping ground -on the west- the textile and chemical industries -in the Southand Chandola Lake -on the East- New Faisalnagar is set in a somewhat marginal condition that has isolated the community inhabiting it for quite some time. Evidently, this is a consequence of a series of disenfranchising town planning and political events, which have led to the emergence of what we think is a clear example of structural violence. Originally a farming field, New Faisalnagar -as part of what is called the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bombay Hotelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; area- began to urbanize quite rapidly due to the Urban Land Ceiling Act of 1976. This policy indirectly incentivized an accelerated informal acquisition of farmland from diverse developers, who acquired these terrains at low values to subsequently divide them and re-sell them through a series informal agreements to low-income families, without ensuring basic infrastructural amenities. These settlers of New Faisalnagar were majorly Muslim families, which were either directly displaced by the communal riots of 1969, 1980, 1990 and 2002, or indirectly affected by them; migrating in order to seek safety and housing affordability. Up until very recently the AMC (Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation) did not recognized most of the propriety rights of the residents as official, and hence did not provided basic amenities and infrastructure. This clearly encouraged the emergence of informal service providers who monopolized water, electricity and drainage systems: an illegal capitalization which systematically disadvantaged the community. Currently, although water connection has been provided to most of the neighbourhood and the endowment of infrastructure has slowly become more apparent, the neighbourhood still faces a great number of challenges and difficulties, for which they have devised different ways to manufacture alternatives.

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CEPT University

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BRIEFS The s tudio depar ted from the unders tanding of these t wo dif ferent sites and communities in the cit y, as contex ts that were compatible with the idea of infras tr uc ture not necessarily as a morethan-human (one -time) solution, but rather, a transitional set of s trategies that would allow for the re -imagination of Indian urbanit y. In that manner, as a point of depar ture, s tudent s were encouraged to delve into fr ugal tac tic s of spatial-produc tion, that could be manifes ted through small-sc aled urban devices. Elements that has the c apacit y to plug into exis ting infras tr uc tural sys tems: transpor table and dismountable objec t s, c apable of accommo dating diverse produc tive ac tivities. Flexible and multi-func tional equipment s, with a low- energ y impac t that simultaneously dealt with resources in a direc t manner. Therefore, af ter discussing with dif ferent agencies of loc al communit y leadership (majorly onground NGOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and communit y leaders) we withdrew t wo main infras tr uc tural necessities. In the c ase of New Faisalnagar, was specific ally in relation to women healthc are and educ ation, and given that one of our main collaborators ( The C enter for D evelop ment) had a set of initiatives in place we decided to suppor t it though a movable device that could allow a door-to -door dis tribution of sanitar y pads.

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On the other hand, one of the mos t pressing needs in G anesh Nagar was in relation to early childhood educ ation; something that CFD addresses through what they c all a ‘Lit Club’, a weekly ac tivit y of engagement though literature. Hencefor ward, the second brief posed the challenge of providing appropriate infras tr uc tural conditions to this, through an af fordable prerequisite. A s will be seen in chapters 4 and 5, while the “Experiment #1:Jaagruti” successfully responded to the firs t brief, “Experiment#2: Play Pal s” interes tingly addressed the challenges posed on the second.

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‘PAD LARI’:

THE PAD CART

The challenge of this project is to ideate a moving platform meant primarily to sell sanitary pads to audiences that usually do not have the access (or knowledge of them) in the settlement of New Faisalnagar. A manner of supporting infrastructurally a set of dynamics that are already in place by a local NGO (CFD), by reinforcing the spatial and material conditions in which this takes place. Additionally, the ‘lari’ is taken as an opportunity to reinforce this initiative as a project of urban pedagogy: a way of developing knowledge in the public sphere which can largely improve the livelihood conditions of the city, focusing on cultural and social development.

The main idea of the project is to support the Centre for Development (CFD) in its initiative for sanitary pad distribution, by designing movablearchitectural facilities capable of potentializing the efficiency and reach of this resource. Additionally, the project must accommodate CFD’s awareness campaigns that target social stigma and lack of awareness. Furthermore -and as a way of capitalizing on the dynamics of mobility CFD has in New Faisalnagarthe proposal is expected to adopt the typology of the ‘lari’: a cart that traverses the neighbourhood, offering these resources directly to the audience’s doorstep. This not only curtails the expenses and difficulties of land acquisition and so on -in comparison to a conventional urban intervention- but, in a parallel manner, is capable of providing a certain level of intimacy to a large population of women that are usually limited to domestic bounds. In that way, the challenge is not only restricted to values of economy, frugality, and movement, but also the conciliation between the public and the intimate, in such a way that propitiates productive activities.

Meeting with Rafi Malik from center for development, Ahmedabad

_ AB O UT TH E PRO P O SAL

C H A A L .C H A A L . AG E N C Y

D E S IGN G U I D E LI N E S AN D OVE RALL RE QU I RE M E NTS _

E STI MATE D B U D G ET_ S ITE_

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Identification of movement routes and activity nodes.

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Consideration on wastedisposal possibilities and cycles of sanitary pads.

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Comply to ecologic principles of production and development.

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Re-evaluate economic model of project and the role of the device within it.

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Propose a light-weight device, which can be easily transported through the ‘kacha’ roads of New Faisalnagar.

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Consider climatic conditions for comfortable spatial conditions in the urban realm.

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Arrange storage spaces for merchandise protected from external contingencies as well as areas for display and distribution of said merchandise.

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Ideate surfaces or elements for information display, which could eventually serve as platforms for participation.

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Devise spaces for gathering and setting of workshops, events, instructions and so on.

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Outline operational relation of device with existing infrastructural systems (electricity, water, parking, etc.).

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Closely collaborate with CFD as a partnership of double retribution.

RS. 50,000 ~ 75,000 GANESH NAGAR

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The settlement of Ganeshnagar is a transit camp for some of the communities that were forcefully displaced by the Riverfront Development Project, but till date have not been given any alternative housing arrangements from the state.

‘LIT C LU B’:

THE IN STANT C LAS S RO O M

Now, given that the architectural conditions where the ‘lit club’ usually takes place lacks the appropriate spatial qualities, its activities usually spill into the chowk adjacent to it (especially in the summer time). Therefore, the expected design presupposes the proposition of a classroom where these activities can take place within the urban realm: it needs to mediate architectural and urban conditions as a way to negotiate different relations, appropriations and usages. In present conditions, the ‘lit club’ involves around 30 children in two batches (boys and girls separately) and within spans of two hours each. The sessions are conducted by Rajniben between 11 am and 4 pm (which entails very harsh weather conditions) involving different book-based activities (like reading, writing, drawing, etc.). Consequently, the challenge consists not only in providing better spatial conditions within the possible scope, but -at the same time- diversify these activities in time and appropriation. This means understanding that by setting them in the public realm, not only the implications change but also the possibilities of action are multiplied.

As a way of stimulating processes of self-management within the community, CFD (Centre for Urban Development) supports an event that takes place every Saturday, in which children are brought together to participate in a ‘literature club’. Herein, boys and girls are engaged in different reading activities that encourage their interest in reading and studying.

_ AB O UT TH E PRO P O SAL

C H A A L .C H A A L . AG E N C Y

D E S IGN G U I D E LI N E S AN D OVE RALL RE QU I RE M E NTS _

E STI MATE D B U D G ET_ S ITE_

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Outline economic and financial potentials of device within larger networks.

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Propose a light-weight device, which can be easily stored in available spaces.

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Ideate different movements and sequences through which the device can accommodate to given conditions.

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Craft an expanded brief for usages/timings to optimize the device’s possibilities.

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Consider climatic conditions for comfortable spatial conditions in the urban realm.

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Ideate surfaces or elements for information display, which could eventually serve as platforms for participation.

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Devise spaces for gathering and setting of workshops, events, instructions and so on.

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Outline the operational relation of device with existing infrastructural systems (electricity, water, parking, etc.).

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Closely collaborate with CFD as a partnership of double retribution.

RS. 50,000 ~ 75,000 NEW FAISALNAGAR (BOMBAY HOTEL)

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4_EXPER #01:

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Heer Upadhya

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

JAAGRUTI Jaagr uti, a visionar y projec t set amids t the bus tling neighborho od of new f aisalnagar, aspires to re - evaluate the role of women by touching upon their so cial lives via a design inter vention which chiefly concerns it self with the selling of sanitar y napkins and other women-rel ated produc t s. The projec t aims at providing an oppor tunit y to the women to b ol s ter their hobbies whil s t providing them a chance to displ ay their craf t smanship as par t of the various womenoriented programs we of fer under jaagr uti. It is envisioned that the l aari will eventually b ecome a par t of their daily routine c atering to dif ferent s treet s at dif ferent times of the week. The use of the l aari could then b e ex tended to other ac tivities like a public mel a or a public film screening and has cer tain provisions for usage by children to o; the l aari thus, intends to dynamic ally trans form and rejuvenate the lives of women and the neighborho o d as a whole.

DESIGN + RESEARCH + PEDAGOGY

DEVICES /ARCHITECTURE /URBANISM

Krisha Arun

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Shashank Shaskar

Second year, Bachelor in Architecture

C M Sanandana

Third year, Bachelor in Architecture

INDIA {ahmedabad} <--> COLOMBIA {bogota}

Vasanth K S

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

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EVERYDAY LIFE LIFE EVERYDAY >>

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Creating awareness about green spaces

> Children playing the an abondoned car

(Top left) > Khatla (Top left) > Existing otla (Left) > Use of shading devices

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Harnessing the solar energy.

Involving women in the making process.

Focus on the children.

Clues from the site.

Heavy at base; light on top.

Heavy at the front; light at back.

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A CUBOID

> ANGULATING AT 18

> SOLAR PANEL

> VENDING MACHINE

> KHATLA + WEAVING

> SEATING + SHADE

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FILM SCREENING > WOMEN + KIDS

PROVISION OF KHATLA > DIY WORKSHOPS

> PIVOTING PANELS > BOOKS + BOARDGAMES

IMAGINING A STREET PLAY

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TIME

> CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT

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> THE COMMUNITY

WOMEN AND CHILDREN

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TO POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES

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OPERABLE FRAME

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STORAGE CABINET WITH POLYCARBONATE SHUTTERS

FOLDABLE SEATS WITH BISON BOARD INFILL

FOLDABLE SEATS WITH BISON BOARD INFILL FLOORING ALUMINUM CHECKERED PLATE

FLOORING ALUMINUM CHECKERED PLATE

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PIVOTING PANELS BISON BOARD INFILL WOVEN WITH NYLON THREAD

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a LAARI BASE ATTACHED TO A BICYCLE

FODABLE KHATLA WITH BISON BOARD INFILL ALSO WOVEN WITH NYLON THREAD

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926

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194

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306

196

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20 x 20 x 3 MM M.S L-SECTION Members for bracing 2100

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20 x 20 x 3 MM M.S L-SECTION Bracing Members

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300

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30 MM DIAMETER M.S CIRCULAR PIPE

20 MM DIAMETER M.S CIRCULAR ROD

25 x 25 x 3 MM THICK M.S BOX SECTION

18 MM THICK BISON BOARD

RUBBER CAP REDUCE FRICTION BETWEEN GROUND AND BOX SECTION

20 x 2 MM THICK M.S PLATE

110

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1120

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450

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450

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111

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Clamp to hold the weave frame

L section 20 x 20 x 3 mm

Weave Frame Rod

Rotating Panel

L section 20 x 20 x 3 mm Weave frame L section 20 x 20 x 3 mm Weave Metal Strip 50 x 2 mm welded with L section

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112

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585

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TO HOLD THE LEGS 1185

492

876

BACK ELEVATION

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25 x 25 x 3 MM M.S BOX SECTION

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30 MM DIAMETER M.S Circular Pipe

D3 Clamp to hold the weave frame

20 MM DIAMETER M.S Circular Rod

L section 20 x 20 x 3 mm

Weave Frame Rod

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114

482

1050

1500

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1143

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1350

PLAN OF THE FRAME

OPERATING

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115

x 25 x 2 MM L-SECTION ERABLE FRAME

G THE FRAME

25 x 25 x 2 MM M.S L-SECTION OPERABLE FRAME

DETAILS OF THE FRAME

116

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584

266

544

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306

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434

395

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577

318

596 926

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PLA

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L-BRACKET

285

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285

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BEADING PATTI

BISON BOARD

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285

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POLYCARBONATE

600

BISON BOARD

578

600

12 MM THICK

285

419

12 MM THICK BISON BOARD

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117

914

25 x 25 x 3 MM L-SECTION FOR MAIN FRAME 20 x 20 x 3 MM L-SECTION FOR BRACING

584

12 MM THICK BISON BOARD

4 MM SCREW

12 MM THICK BISON BOARD

596 926

AN at +1320mm LVL

10 MM THICK POLYCARBONATE

12 MM THICK BISON BOARD

FRONT ELEVATION

118

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B U Y IN G A PREFABRICATED PEDAL L ARI TO BE U S ED AS THE BAS E ON WHICH THE PAD L ARI WAS TO BE B U ILT. HERE, THE S T UD ENT S TES T RUN IT AND S TART TO MAKE MODIFICATI ONS

C H A A L .C H A A L . AG E N C Y

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jaagruti CONSTRUCTION MANUAL

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Vulnerable women can be forced to use improvised, unhygienic materials that may cause leaking and infection, JAAGRUTI AIMS TO PROVIDE SANITARY PADS WITH A HIGH HYGIENE VALUE + AIMS TO SPREAD AWARENESS ON HAZARDS OF USING POOR QUALITY ABSORBENTS.

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M Y T H

According to a cross-sectional study carried out IN ONE of the Indian villages, it was found that 2/3 of the respondents (65.4% illiterates + 62.1% literates) believed that menstruating blood is dirty + believe in placing PECULAIR ITEMS around the girl prevents intrusion of evil spirits

> >

IT IS BELIEVED THAT during menstruation, the body emits some specific smell or ray, which turns preserved food bad. HENCE WOMEN ARE they are not allowed to touch sour foods like pickles.

menstrual blood is believed to be dangerous, and a malevolent person can do harm to a menstruating woman or girl by using black magic. It is also believed that a woman can use her menstrual blood to impose her will on a man.

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ACCORDING TO HI PERCEPTIONS, All w regardless of t social caste. in pollution throug bodily processe menstruation

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girls inability to manage their menstrual hygiene in schools, results in school absenteeism, which in turn, has severe economic costs on their lives.

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The illustration, in an abstract format, tries to capture the system of taboos and myths associated with menstruation and how does it impact the everyday life + well-being of a woman. What it clearly outlines is to how the project Jaagruti steps in, in order to overcome or minimise such negative impact.

H S

INDU women, their ncur gh the es of n.

UNDER JAAGRUTI, DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS WILL BE ORGANISED TO SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT MENSTRUAL HYGIENE + NORMALISE THE CONECPT OF MENSTRUATION.

religious taboos on menstruation are often compounded by traditional associations with shame and embarrassment.

ROOT CAUSE

+ +

Not entering the “puja” room, kitchen and holy spaces are major restrictions imposed on these women. they are also restricted from offering prayers and touching holy books. THEY must be “purified” before returnING to her NORMAL LIFE.

In some cultures, women bury their cloths used during menstruation to prevent them being used by evil spirits since it is considered impure.

in some cultures, Menstruating women can be banished to outside sheds according to custom, where they suffer in cold and isolation, often at risk of life-threatening illness and attack.

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ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR TO COME TOGETHER BY PR A PLATFORM TO WORK TO PROVIDES READING RESO ON MENSTRUAL HEA

sanitary hygiene products are often inaccessible or too costly, particularly for those living in poverty or crisis SITUATION + MEN DO NOT ALWAYS PROVIDE MONE

IMPACTS

JAAGRUTI AIMS AT PROVIDING GOOD-QUALITY SANITARY PADS AT AN AFFORDABLE RATE AT THE DOOR STEP > INCREASING ACCESS TO THE WOMEN + ENABLES WOMEN TO BE INDEPENDENT.

ROLE OF JAAGRUTI

ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF LACK OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TO COME TOGETHER BY PROVIDING A PLATFORM TO WORK TOGETHER + PROVIDES READING RESOURCES ON MENSTRUAL HEALTH.

GIVES RISE TO INADEQUATE DISPOSAL OF MENSTRUAL WASTE > flushing in toilets + THROWING IN AS A PART OF THE DOORSTEP SERDUSTBIN + burying + burning VICE, WOMEN ARE PROVIDED A

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Poor menstrual hygiene practices leads to numerous physical infections + AFFCETS the dignity, bodily integrity and overall life opportunities of women.

PAPER BAG FOR KEEPING THEIR USED PADS AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO PRACTISE NATURE FRIENDLY DISPOSING TECHNIQUES.

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+ Due to stigma and a lack AWARENESS, menstruation knowledge remains limited leaving WOMEN with negative and ambivalent feelings and experiencing psycho-social stress.

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UNDER JAAGRUTI, SPEAKERS/COUNSELLORS WILL BE MAKE VISITS AND HAVE PEP TALK OF SORTS INCULCATING AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SAME THUS CHANGING THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF WOMEN.

sanitary hygiene products are often inaccessible or too costly, particularly for those living in poverty or crisis SITUATION + MEN DO NOT ALWAYS PROVIDE MONEY. JAAGRUTI AIMS AT PROVIDING GOOD-QUALITY SANITARY PADS AT AN AFFORDABLE RATE AT THE DOOR STEP > INCREASING ACCESS TO THE WOMEN + ENABLES WOMEN TO BE INDEPENDENT.

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LEADS TO THE CREATION OF A gender-unfriendly school culture and infrastructure WHERE MENSTRUATION BEGANS TO BE SEEN AS SHAMEFUL + STRONGLY CURBS THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY. ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR WOMEN TO COME TOGETHER BY PROVIDING A PLATFORM HENCE DYNAMICALLY CHANGING RELATIONS TO CREATE MORE OPENNESS + AWARENESS.

+ + Vulnerable women can be forced to use improvised, unhygienic materials that may cause leaking and infection, JAAGRUTI AIMS TO PROVIDE SANITARY PADS WITH A HIGH HYGIENE VALUE + AIMS TO SPREAD AWARENESS ON HAZARDS OF USING POOR QUALITY ABSORBENTS.

girls inability to manage their menstrual hygiene in schools, results in school absenteeism, which in turn, has severe economic costs on their lives.

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UNDER JAAGRUTI, DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS WILL BE ORGANISED TO SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT MENSTRUAL HYGIENE + NORMALISE THE CONECPT OF MENSTRUATION.

M YT H S

JAAGRUTI AIMS TO PROVIDE SANITARY PADS WITH A HIGH HYGIENE VALUE + AIMS TO SPREAD AWARENESS ON HAZARDS OF USING POOR QUALITY ABSORBENTS.

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religious taboos on menstruation are often compounded by traditional associations with shame and embarrassment.

ROOT CAUSE

> >

IT IS BELIEVED THAT during menstruation, the body emits some specific smell or ray, which turns preserved food bad. HENCE WOMEN ARE they are not allowed to touch sour foods like pickles.

> > >> >>

Vulnerable women can be forc gienic materials that may ca

ACCORDING TO HINDU PERCEPTIONS, All women, regardless of their social caste. incur pollution through the bodily processes of menstruation.

in some cultures, Menstruating women can be banished to outside sheds according to custom, where they suffer in cold and isolation, often at risk of life-threatening illness and attack.

In some cultures, women bury their cloths used during menstruation to prevent them being used by evil spirits since it is considered impure.

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IMPACTS

ROLE OF JAAGRUTI

M OF LACK WOMEN ROVIDING OGETHER + OURCES ALTH.

GIVES RISE TO INADEQUATE DISPOSAL OF MENSTRUAL WASTE > flushing in toilets + THROWING IN AS A PART OF THE DOORSTEP SERDUSTBIN + burying + burning VICE, WOMEN ARE PROVIDED A

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Poor menstrual hygiene practices leads to numerous physical infections + AFFCETS the dignity, bodily integrity and overall life opportunities of women.

PAPER BAG FOR KEEPING THEIR USED PADS AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO PRACTISE NATURE FRIENDLY DISPOSING TECHNIQUES.

+ Due to stigma and a lack AWARENESS, menstruation knowledge remains limited leaving WOMEN with negative and ambivalent feelings and experiencing psycho-social stress.

<<<

UNDER JAAGRUTI, SPEAKERS/COUNSELLORS WILL BE MAKE VISITS AND HAVE PEP TALK OF SORTS INCULCATING AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SAME THUS CHANGING THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF WOMEN.

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LEADS TO THE CREATION OF A gender-unfriendly school culture and infrastructure WHERE MENSTRUATION BEGANS TO BE SEEN AS SHAMEFUL + STRONGLY CURBS THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY.

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ced to use improvised, unhyause leaking and infection,

M Y-

ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR WOMEN TO COME TOGETHER BY PROVIDING A PLATFORM HENCE DYNAMICALLY CHANGING RELATIONS TO CREATE MORE OPENNESS + AWARENESS.

+ girls inability to manage their menstrual hygiene in schools, results in school absenteeism, which in turn, has severe economic costs on their lives.

<<<

UNDER JAAGRUTI, DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS WILL BE ORGANISED TO SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT MENSTRUAL HYGIENE + NORMALISE THE CONECPT OF MENSTRUATION.

+ +

religious taboos on

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Daksh Tak

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Dhwani Doshi

Fourth year, Bachelor in Urban Design

PLAY PALS G aneshnagar lies in the southern mos t edge of cit y, almos t out of it, surrounded by garbage dump Pirana, an elec tricit y power s tation and sewage treatment pl ant. This is a set tlement that has b e en allot ted plot s for housing but is cut of f from the cit y ’s basic s of infras tr uc ture. We are lo oking to inter vene in a literature club, for the kids of G aneshnagar, where they conduc t ac tivities like drawing and s tor y telling. Given the l ack of infras tr uc ture and the increasing numb er of children, the current space is f ar from suf ficient. Hence, a device that c an fit in this contex t c all s for something that requires minimum maintainence but al so b e an agent for change in such a communit y. O ur ‘Pl ay Pal‘ do es jus t that. Children have the potential to b e that agency, so what the new lit club do es is to enhance their learning exp erience by creating that bal ance b et we en a closed and an op en environment. What it al so do es is that it brings in the pos sibilit y for the communit y to o cc asionally gather up.

Kanishk Devlal

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

DESIGN + RESEARCH + PEDAGOGY

DEVICES /ARCHITECTURE /URBANISM

Naveen Prasad

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

INDIA {ahmedabad} <--> COLOMBIA {bogota}

Vidisha Sahay

Third year, Bachelor in Urban Design

Vikramaditya Karnavat

Second year, Bachelor in Urban Design

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DESIGN CRITERIA Creates a sense of enclosure to create an environment of study

Creates a sense of openness for a breathable space given the context

The device is easily movable and light weight

Becomes an active part of the learning process

Suggests appreciation for nature.

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DESIGN

CONCEPT The panels are to be used to support the activities of the lit club but also serve the community in the case of any event, community gatherings, night time celebration, etc.

PIN UP BOARD

BLACK BOARD

SITTING SPACE

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THE MODULES

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LITCLUB

ACTIVITIES It is primarily for the LitClub activities conducted by Centre for Developement (Ahmedabad) in collaboration with LitWorld (New York) that this design came up. It was developed keeping in mind activities like reading, writing and read aloud session.

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USES

Apart from their main purpose, these modules and the environment create a pocket of space such that it can be of use to the surrounding community. Given the fact that each module is not physically attached, even though they work together for a particular kind of activity, the placement of each module can be appropriated to create a different kind of public or semi-public space. This encourages different age groups in the community to develop their own space, out in the open. To put out a few versions of the space, it can be used for displaying all the works of the kids in the club to create awareness about the achievements of their children. To celebrate occassions like birthdays or festivals or any special occassions. Having leveled the ground, the space, even without the modules can be used by the community in general for the purpose of leisure.

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COMMUNITY

ENGAGEMENT

This community in Ganeshnagar, as mentioned above, are cut off from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basics of provisions. Such a situation leads to vulnerablility. They need to ensure that they are active in voicing out their opinions. In such a scenario, they can use this space to mobilise themselves which has been designed as a designated public space for the community that can be used to hold meetings, discussions or even awareness campaigns. The modules can thus be an agent that aids this process by putting out information or being used to actively engage with information.

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S TAG E 1 DR AWI NG S < Obtain consent from the communit y to inter vene on their l and. < C all up on l ab ourers for the cleaning of l and. > Af ter clean-up, c all for mud, according to requirement

< Level the ground with the mud.

> While leveling the ground, create a pl at form, around the tree, for sit ting.

< C ompac t the mud.

> Af ter compac tion, add a l ayer of P CC. < While l ayering the P CC, s tar t pl acing the flooring tiles.

> Af ter the completion of the flooring pro ces s, ins tall the roof.

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PROP O S ED PL AN OF CHOWK

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Cement Mortar

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S TAG E 1 ON - SI TE #playpals

DAKSH TAK

BACHOLRS OF URBAN DESIGN

A s 3 memb ers of the team progres sed with making drawings and mo ck-ups for s tage 2 -the modules- the other team took on various responsibilities to commence s tage 1 of the projec t. D ue to the enforced lo ckdown, s tage 1 could not b e completed. _we were 6 individuals in a team to work on the selected design_

MY ROLE _understanding the site and measure draw_

I teamed up with Naveen to understand the site context to take design desicions for flooring, roofing and plantation. Later on put all the things together for making construction drawings for better working at the site during the phases of construction.

_after measure drawing design the roofing system and flooring pattern_

Roofing and flooringpatterns were restricted to a limited budget, to design and execute the process, we had to take careful desicions like using waste-recycled tiles and stones and simpliest of roofing structure.

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_understanding the site landscape to figure out plantation_

After the visit at the site, we found out various spieces of plants and trees that exists in the neighbourhood could be used for platation. And to study plants that could be used in a sphere where children is the main focus.

_market survey for roofing and flooring material_

Finding the perfect fit for the flooring and roofing, we had to figure out various price factors and aesthics to finally take a desicion for the site installation of the both.

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> THE S T UD ENT S TO OK ON CRITICAL ROLES OF BEIN G C O C ORDINATORS TO ENS URE THE S MO OTH PRO G RES S OF WORK ONS ITE . THE TE AM WAS ABLE TO C OMPLE TE THE FIRS T LE VEL OF FILLIN G AND C OMPAC TIN G OF THE CHOWK .

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PROJECT TITLE :

PLAY PALS,

570 628

AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT.

DRG. TITLE : 5 PANELS

INFILL DETAILS Scale 30 mm MS box

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Unit Light Infrastructure has proposed a pop-up classroom for an informal settlement (Ganeshnagar) in Ahmedabad, India. Derived on the basis of the concept of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;light infrastructureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; developed by Chaal Chaal Agency, the design is a set of modules that are mobile and create an environment for kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities instantly. While the modules have the potential to create such a space wherever needed in the world, in Ganeshnagar, Ahmedabad, it needed to cater to the conditions on ground in order to allow for the best possible functioning of the activities and modules. Hence, the ground was also then designed to create a space that can also be claimed by the community for general use. Given the heat from the scorching sun in Ahmedabad, a roof was also planned for as part of design.

This construction manual is, thus, divided into two parts Stage 1 and Stage 2. Stage 1 of the design elaborates on the methods of flooring and roofing while Stage 2 details out the construction of the modules themselves.

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