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Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322)

STUDYING AN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT

DISCUSSION 3

Nipesh P Narayanan

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias

• Every home tells a story

• Landuse planning

• Role of a contractor in Mumbai

• Notion of design and aesthetics

“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and

mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias

• Every home tells a story

• Landuse planning

• Role of a contractor in Mumbai

• Notion of design and aesthetics

“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and

mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias

• Every home tells a story

• Landuse planning

• Role of a contractor in Mumbai

• Notion of design and aesthetics

“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and

mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias

• Every home tells a story

• Landuse planning

• Role of a contractor in Mumbai

• Notion of design and aesthetics

“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and

mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

METHODS OF UNDERSTANDING

THE STRUCTURALIST WAY

•Community and spatial response of anthropometric study

THE SUBALTERN WAY

•The individual is important, so as every detail about him/her

THE ACTOR NETWORK THEORY

WAY

•Individual is just a part of the larger system of networks and institutes

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

PHYSICAL ASPECTS

• Mapping the settlement

Ref:

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Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

PHYSICAL ASPECTS

• Mapping the street

Ref:

Lear

ning

from

Del

hi. ~

Mau

rice

Mitc

hell

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

SOCIAL ASPECTS

• Mapping the activity - Transcript

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

SOCIAL ASPECTS

• Mapping the social network – Mental Mapping

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT!

Monoaspect study