urbz's participatory process in Kochi, Kerala ended with an exhibition and symposium at the town hall. Great working with @giz_india and urbanista! m.timesofindia.com/city/kochi/pro… see entekochi.net for more

The Khotachiwadi Imaginaries workshop (2016) urbz + ARA + Studio X + Goethe-Institut MUM + Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan urbanlab.org/khotachiwadi/I… #TheArchitectasanEthnographer #Khotachiwadi #India

”We need to be experimental, we need to live with the unknown!” This applies to planners, architects, civil servants and all of us! Amin Khosravi shares the inspiring urbz story #peopledrivencity #lähiöfest

Great article on Tokyo's special path to urban development by Christian Dimmer, quoting urbz' Matias Echanove & Rahul Srivastava. Do read!

The media love to present Mumbai's Dharavi as a 'ticking time bomb'. Here is a different perspective: urbz.net/articles/dhara…

Thanks urbz for breaking myths about the virus & community capacity.Hard to balance middle class give &keep communities empowered.This is an opportunity to strengthen this resilience without glorifying what communities can do on their own urbz urbz.net/articles/dhara…

#NewCitiesLIVE ⏭️"Beyond Megacities: Rethinking Density". Join us next week with Matias Echanove & Rahul Srivastava, Founders of urbz, and author + placemaker Jay Pitter. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

#NewCitiesLIVE "#COVID19 will go but many things will remain such as tracking #data and interactions - we need to be aware and careful to navigate in the post-pandemic world. Also #mobility needs to be a density variable to make it more #sustainable." - Matias, urbz

Thanks NewCities Greg Lindsay for the invitation! Stimulated by the discussion on #density with Jay Pitter and Enrique Peñalosa

Also great reflections from urbz on the need to think much more about the connections between density & mobility, and the closely woven nature of the urban & the rural in India and beyond. Both in relation to the academic & beyond it.

Jay Pitter + urbz is easily the best talk I've heard this past month! Still available here 👇👇

"The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has made visible something that official Indian statistics make invisible: the dual rootedness of millions of working class Indians who have one foot in the city and another in the village." en.forumviesmobiles.org/2020/05/19/one…

"We don't call #Dharavi a slum but a Homegrown neighborhood." -Matias Echanove, urbz #FutureOfHousing #thisisdextrUs @sankalpforum The Urban Vision

“We couldn’t look at housing as a commodity, but as encouragement to the community to contribute”, says Rahul Srivastava, Co-Founder, urbz. #FutureOfHousing #thisisdextrUs @sankalpforum The Urban Vision

Architecture Futures with Romi Khosla, Matias Echanove, Mukta Naik. 27 May 2020, 11 AM. Who do we build for? What and how do we build? And who will inhabit these buildings? Is the present more important than the future? Where are we going with the future of architecture?

Marking #worldenvironmentday, @csmvsmumbai and @avidlearning present a panel discussion exploring concepts of sustainable architecture and urban design. Date: 5th June Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm Register at: avidlearning.in

Don't miss it!