3. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying
READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias
• Every home tells a story
• Landuse planning
• Role of a contractor in Mumbai
• Notion of design and aesthetics
“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the
ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and
mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “
4. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying
READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias
• Every home tells a story
• Landuse planning
• Role of a contractor in Mumbai
• Notion of design and aesthetics
“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the
ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and
mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “
5. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying
READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias
• Every home tells a story
• Landuse planning
• Role of a contractor in Mumbai
• Notion of design and aesthetics
“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the
ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and
mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “
6. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying
READING: HOME-GROWN HOMES ~ Rahul & Matias
• Every home tells a story
• Landuse planning
• Role of a contractor in Mumbai
• Notion of design and aesthetics
“entering the life of the neighbourhood, becoming one of the characters, getting involved in the
ongoing drama, moulding and being moulded by the unfolding events, mixing, merging and
mashing up the different strands that emerge with every moment. “
7. Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Studying
METHODS OF UNDERSTANDING
THE STRUCTURALIST
WAY
• Community and
spatial response of
anthropometric
study
THE SUBALTERN WAY
• The individual is
important, so as
every detail about
him/her
THE ACTOR
NETWORK THEORY
WAY
• Individual is just a
part of the larger
system of networks
and institutes