Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322)

DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

“and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon; there is no dark side of the moon really; matter of fact it's all dark."

Nipesh P Narayanan

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INFORMALITY: GLAMORIZED LIVING CONDITION OF THE POOR!

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INFORMALITY: GLAMORIZED LIVING CONDITION OF THE POOR!

1972

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE PICTURE PERFECT CITY OF THE WEST!

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE PICTURE PERFECT CITY OF THE WEST!

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE PICTURE PERFECT CITY OF THE WEST!

Aping the West/USA

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE ‘VROOM’ CITY !

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE ‘VROOM’ CITY ?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE ‘BRAVE NEW’ CITY !

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE ‘BRAVE NEW’ CITY !

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : THE ‘WORLD CLASS’ CITY !

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

CAN WE? : WHAT WILL ‘IT’ BE SUPPORTED ON?IT = The mad Indian rush!

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 32140

Growth rate – 6.8 % (2009-2010)

Assuming the growth rate – 7 % (assumed to be constant)

At 7% growth rate, per capita income will double every 10 years

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 321402020 $ 16002030 $ 32002040 $ 64002050 $ 128002060 $ 256002070 $ 51200

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 321402020 $ 16002030 $ 32002040 $ 64002050 $ 128002060 $ 256002070 $ 51200

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 321402020 $ 16002030 $ 32002040 $ 64002050 $ 128002060 $ 256002070 $ 51200

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 321402020 $ 16002030 $ 32002040 $ 64002050 $ 128002060 $ 256002070 $ 51200

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 321402020 $ 16002030 $ 32002040 $ 64002050 $ 128002060 $ 256002070 $ 51200

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 321402020 $ 16002030 $ 32002040 $ 64002050 $ 128002060 $ 256002070 $ 51200

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

WHERE DO WE STAND?

PER CAPITA INCOME OF INDIA

Year India USA2010(volatile now) $ 800 $ 321402020 $ 16002030 $ 32002040 $ 64002050 $ 128002060 $ 256002070 $ 51200

By the time we make it, people in this room will be too OLD or DEAD!

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

THERE IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REALLY; MATTER OF FACT IT'S ALL DARK

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

THERE IS NO DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REALLY; MATTER OF FACT IT'S ALL DARK

IS IT?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

IS MONEY THE CRITERIA?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

IS MONEY THE CRITERIA?

STATE PER CAPITA INCOME HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX

Haryana Rs. 19,021 0.621Gujarat Rs. 20,000 0.644Kerala Rs. 12,302 0.814 (USA - .92, UK - .849, Germany - .885)

HDI not GDP!~ Mahbub-ul-Haq

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

THE OTHER PATH IS INEFFECTIVE!

1989

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

1. Co-Housing (late 1960s in Denmark)– Women going to work!

2. Labour housing collective living (post liberal India)– No choice

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

1. Co-Housing (late 1960s in Denmark)– Women going to work!

2. Labour housing collective living (post liberal India)– No choice

3. Community Technical Aid Centres (mid 1960s in UK)– Answer to slum clearance and mass housing programs

4. Technical Assistance Kiosk (mHS, post retail FDI India)– Answer to degrading built environment

5. The Jugaad Mumbai slum contactor

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

1. Co-Housing (late 1960s in Denmark)– Women going to work!

2. Labour housing collective living (post liberal India)– No choise

3. Community Technical Aid Centres (mid 1960s in UK)– Answer to slum clearance and mass housing programs

4. Technical Assistance Kiosk (mHS, post retail FDI India)– Answer to degrading built environment

5. The Jugaad Mumbai slum contactor

NO

Fr

eedo

m

to li

ve

Mis

sing

Id

ea o

f the

co

llecti

ve

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

DE SOTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

DE SOTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)

Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY)– Community participation– Mortgage rights– Formalizing the informal

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

DE SOTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)

Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY)– Community participation– Mortgage rights– Formalizing the informal

Prog

ram

med

to

feed

the

GD

P m

odel

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

INDIAN INFORMAL IS DIFFERENT!

TURNER’s ‘FREEDOM TO BUILD’ (1972)

DE SOLTO’s ‘THE OTHER PATH’ (1989)

WHAT DO WE DO?

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

ARCHITECT: WHAT IS OUR ROLE?

Imag

e So

urce

: htt

p://

dura

nvirg

inia

.file

s.wor

dpre

ss.c

om/2

012/

10/v

irgin

iadu

ran_

mya

rchi

tect

.jpg[

Onl

ine]

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL ??

1974 by Brian Anson & AA Students

Call for an “International movement towards

community Architecture”

1934 - 2009

Imag

e So

urce

: htt

p://

ww

w.g

uard

ian.

co.u

k/ar

tand

desi

gn/2

009/

dec/

17/b

rian-

anso

n-ob

ituar

y [O

nlin

e]

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

ARCHITECTS REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL ??

“Brian Anson realised that the problems plaguing the profession, i.e. the pandering to developers and lack of ground roots community communication were a result of a deeply flawed education system.”

Brian Anson obituaryArchitect, planner and tireless battler on behalf of the underdog

~Richard RogersThe Guardian,

17 December 2009

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

TIME TO RETHINK ABOUT THE PROFESSION!

beyond the philanthropic views…

Informal Settlements – Understanding + Interacting (AP-322) – Dark Side of the Moon

“it is a definite social relationship between men that assumes…. the fantastic form of a relation between things…. This I call the fetishism

which attaches itself to the products of labour so soon as they are produced as commodities”

~Karl Marx, Das Capital, vol 1