March

Dharavi Reloaded:
Workshop on the use of Dharavi.org with the residents of Koliwada, Dharavi Mumbai.

Around ten participants familiarised themselves with the tools required for uploading multi media material onto the URBZ www.dharavi.org website that emerged through the Urban Typhoon held earlier that month. More such workshops will be held from October onwards in different pockets all over Dharavi, through the Koliwada Design Cell.

April

Writing Imagination
On philosophies and practices of writing with post graduate media students from the Center for Media Studies unit, Tata Insititute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

The five day long workshop explored the relationship of knowledge, writing and context. It examined histories of knowledge practices and attempted to connect them to the way in which pedagogic practices are weighed down by interpretations and over interpretations that need reflection.

July

Narrating Fantasies
On story telling in different forms of media practices, with undergraduate students of St. Xavier’s College, Goa.

Participants examined the elements of narratives with concepts and tools that are not weighed down by a selfconscious literary imagination and which combine the image and the word as an organic part of expression.

August

Archiving Action
A workshop on Urban Knowledge Practices with the coordinators of the PUKAR Youth Fellowship Project, PUKAR, Mumbai.

This attempted to evolve strategies for the coordinators of the PUKAR Youth Fellowship Project to document their interventions with 400 young ‘barefoot researchers’ with whom they work all over Mumbai. This workshop is part of a series that will be held every month. The next one is scheduled for mid September.

Forthcoming

From November onwards, a series of workshops will be held with the participants of the PUKAR Youth Fellowship project. These focus on the use of information and communication technology within the frame of urban research action practices of the project.