Digital Labour Markets and the Future of Work in Indian Cities.

Urban Futures – March 8th to 12th 2021 Digital Labour Markets and the Future of Work in Indian Cities What is platform urbanism? How is it changing our cities and the nature of our urban economy? What are the challenges and issues that workers working in digital labour markets face? Urban Futures is one of … Continue reading Digital Labour Markets and the Future of Work in Indian Cities. →

VIDEO – Launch of MAKE/BREAK – a Digital Exhibition that traces the violence of Mumbai’s transformation into a “world-class” city.

VIDEO – MAKE/BREAK launch event.MAKE/BREAK – a Digital Exhibition that traces the violence of Mumbai’s transformation into a “world-class” city. The exhibition emerged from a research project about the effect of the ongoing socio-spatial transformation of Mumbai on marginalised communities in the city and their responses to it. The researchers approached urban transformations through the … Continue reading VIDEO – Launch of MAKE/BREAK – a Digital Exhibition that traces the violence of Mumbai’s transformation into a “world-class” city. →

VIDEO INNOVATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND PRACTICES IN LAND-TITLING: LEARNING FROM JAGA MISSION ODISHA.

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VIDEO INNOVATIONS, OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND PRACTICES IN LAND-TITLING: LEARNING FROM JAGA MISSION ODISHA. JAGA Mission, under the Housing & Urban Development Department, Government of Odisha, aims at transforming the slums into liveable habitat with all necessary civic infrastructure and services, to continuously improve the standard of living and access to livelihood opportunities by implementing the … Continue reading →

The Inside Story of JAGA Mission, Odisha. Inaugural Session of of New Lecture Series. Land, Housing and Property Rights: Tracing Policy Shifts and Emerging Issues in India and the Global South

Resurrecting Mumbai: Discussing challenges and strategies towards framing an inclusive action-plan for post-COVID sustainability

Mumbai has been dealt a blow by the COVID 19 pandemic with long term implications for its citizens. Questions arise about its planning and development trajectory, its ability to deal with future environmental shocks and pandemics. In the report Resurrecting Mumbai, Prof. Amita Bhide, Dean and Professor, School of Habitat Studies, weighs in on the … Continue reading Resurrecting Mumbai: Discussing challenges and strategies towards framing an inclusive action-plan for post-COVID sustainability →

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID

Here is our 12th community story, ‘Creating Communities of Care’, where residents of Cheetah Camp in Mankhurd have transformed a BMC school in their neighbourhood into a quarantine facility. The centre is equipped to accommodate almost 25 patients, and conduct saliva tests and assess oxygen levels. In light of the inaccessibility of private and state … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID →

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID

Here is our 12th community story, ‘Creating Communities of Care’, where residents of Cheetah Camp in Mankhurd have transformed a BMC school in their neighbourhood into a quarantine facility. The centre is equipped to accommodate almost 25 patients, and conduct saliva tests and assess oxygen levels. In light of the inaccessibility of private and state … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID →

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19

Our 11th community story is about Prakash, a social worker from the community in the Mankhurd Transit Camp. Prakash noticed that the transit camp, a marginalised and vulnerable community, was being left out of mainstream relief efforts. In order to address this, he contacted Professor Amita Bhide and other NGOs, and conducted a survey of … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19 →

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19

Here is our 10th story about reaching out to communities and individuals at risk during the pandemic. Irshad Sheikh, a member of the M-East Ward, with help from Transforming M Ward, TISS, helps manage five community kitchens in the area that feed close to 6,000 individuals each day. The idea for setting up these kitchens … Continue reading COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DURING COVID19 →