day 18: intervention, my couch!!!!!!!

After carefully trying to understand 13th compound, we discovered that the idea of communal space is somehow ommitted in this area. This is due to the fact that it is a business area and recycling materials is the most important. almost every space is occupied with one business or the other but does this mean that they don't experience communality? In trying to find an answer to this, our intervention was to create a communal couch out of recycling materials. So, when we make a couch out of plastic bottles what happens? Are they going to steal the bottle or sit on it for communal experince. We made the couch by tieing plastic bottles together and placed it in a shaded area on shakir street in 13th compound. Immediately, we put the couch there, people started sitting on it. some said it is nice and they want more of it, one asked can i take it home?. They were all laughing, having fun, having communality, but they don't know what were up to, because after placing the couch there, we hidded somewhere, watching them. Talking about the importance of plastic bottles in dharavi, we sold the remaining of the plastic bottles we picked up for 30 rupees.
Urban typhoon presentation

At night, I went to see Urban typhoon presentation. I was really impressed with their presentation due to the time frame. They produced a lot of designs from communal spaces to low rise to high rise, to airport, and so on just to provoke the residents and see what their reactions are to these designs.