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Feb 29 2024

No Place Like Here - building narratives through localities

urbz animated a session with filmmakers that foregrounded the idea of locality in storytelling, specifically in the making of fiction films. 

Fiction
neighborhood
Locality
fiction
place making
Oct 04 2019

Dharavi on celluloid

Dharavi has been an interesting setting for many Mumbai based films. This article discusses a few films from the past decades that feature Dharavi as a place central to their narratives.

Fiction
neighborhood
dharavi
urbanization
Dharavi Redevelopment Plan
The Cyborg
Jan 08 2019

Hacking the Cyborg

Can collective intelligence save us from self-destruction? (The Hindu 06.01.2019)

Fiction
collectiveintelligence
cyborg
marx
generalintellect
artificialintelligence
May 05 2017

Mumbai-Bogota Mashup workshop

The two ostensibly different cities have so much in common when you look beneath the surface.

Mashup
Fiction
bogota
mashup
mumbai
art
participation
Sep 13 2016

Circulatory Lives in Bordeaux

Hubert, Eloise, Lucie and Chloé have all moved to Bordeaux from different parts of France and live there currently. But what's 'home' for them? 

mobility
Fiction
Art
circulatorylives
circulatorylives
bordeaux
Conceptual map of the urban system produced at the workshop
Mar 15 2013

Infusing and Confusing India's Urbanness

What began as a regular jostling and tugging of the idea in a brainstorm soon took off as an imaginative exercise that encouraged creative and personal readings of the concept and the making of its visual expressions. 

workshops
Art
Fiction
Mashup
delhi
participation
city
art
workshop
Dec 12 2011

Maa toh Maa hai

Giving a voice to the kids is urgent and inevitable. In this series, the kids speak about their neighbourhood and lives.

Fiction
Art
dharavi
neighbourhood