Output details

The frontlines of contested urbanism: Mega-projects and mega-resistances in Dharavi

This output represent the development of a conceptual neologism “contested urbanism” as an enquiry into space and its multiple manifestations in conflicted environments in the complex, latent and malleable urban dimensions of the global South that characterized my involvement in design research and works in DPU along the lines of informalities and collective claims over urban transformations and the right to the city. As such it was creating the baseline for further works and teaching in the Bartlett and outside. It offers a trans-disciplinary investigation of the built environment able to substantiate the tension between the singularity of architectural objects and the multiplicity of contexts, powers and conditions that determine their emergence at different urban scales