Deriving Perspectives from Practice
Aside from our projects, we are driven by the idea of being in constant dialogue with the larger design fraternity. Through our in-house publication UnMute and Friday Night Conversations we keep a finger on the pulse of subculture, drawing from it and adding to it.
Initiatives like design and build workshops, research and urban mapping activities, blogs and travel stories allow the studio to push the boundaries of our creativity, while staying connected with a larger body of thinkers and makers.
PUBLICATIONS
The States of Water
Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?
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Contributors
Sarath Menon
Anoushka Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Chowdhury
Anirudh Govind
Maitri Shah
Aditi Subramanian
Jhanavi Parikh
Nimitt Karia
Aishani Goswami
Ambreen Massey
Elangkumaran S
Stuti Sohni Dalal
Shail Bajaria
Majid Abidi
Ujjvala Krishna
Unmute 1
In cities, the housing fabric is driven by planning rules, economic demand and market rates. The principle decision makers are not the users but the bureaucrats and builders’ community, while users are pushed to the bottom of the decision-making chain, merely as 'buyers'. If user perspectives are given a voice, what kind of a cityscape and housing dynamic would they paint?Through the publication we forage into peoples’ aspirations, memories or even realities, which shape their idea of living in a house. The narratives expressed in essays and illustrations, throw light on the user in housing and importance of thinking of nitty-gritties or smaller details in housing which gather multitude of meanings in a home. The variety of perspectives collated in the publication urges a re-thinking and possibility to break from the current limitations in housing design, by evoking an imagination in the elements of a house.
Unmute 2
Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?
Dummy Link
Contributors
Sarath Menon
Anoushka Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Chowdhury
Anirudh Govind
Maitri Shah
Aditi Subramanian
Jhanavi Parikh
Nimitt Karia
Aishani Goswami
Ambreen Massey
Elangkumaran S
Stuti Sohni Dalal
Shail Bajaria
Majid Abidi
Ujjvala Krishna
Unmute 3
Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?
Dummy Link
Contributors
Sarath Menon
Anoushka Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Chowdhury
Anirudh Govind
Maitri Shah
Aditi Subramanian
Jhanavi Parikh
Nimitt Karia
Aishani Goswami
Ambreen Massey
Elangkumaran S
Stuti Sohni Dalal
Shail Bajaria
Majid Abidi
Ujjvala Krishna
Unmute 4
Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?
Dummy Link
Contributors
Sarath Menon
Anoushka Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Chowdhury
Anirudh Govind
Maitri Shah
Aditi Subramanian
Jhanavi Parikh
Nimitt Karia
Aishani Goswami
Ambreen Massey
Elangkumaran S
Stuti Sohni Dalal
Shail Bajaria
Majid Abidi
Ujjvala Krishna
Unmute 5
Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?
Dummy Link
Contributors
Sarath Menon
Anoushka Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Chowdhury
Anirudh Govind
Maitri Shah
Aditi Subramanian
Jhanavi Parikh
Nimitt Karia
Aishani Goswami
Ambreen Massey
Elangkumaran S
Stuti Sohni Dalal
Shail Bajaria
Majid Abidi
Ujjvala Krishna
Unmute 6
Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?
Dummy Link
Contributors
Sarath Menon
Anoushka Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Chowdhury
Anirudh Govind
Maitri Shah
Aditi Subramanian
Jhanavi Parikh
Nimitt Karia
Aishani Goswami
Ambreen Massey
Elangkumaran S
Stuti Sohni Dalal
Shail Bajaria
Majid Abidi
Ujjvala Krishna
Unmute 7
Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?
Dummy Link
Contributors
Sarath Menon
Anoushka Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Chowdhury
Anirudh Govind
Maitri Shah
Aditi Subramanian
Jhanavi Parikh
Nimitt Karia
Aishani Goswami
Ambreen Massey
Elangkumaran S
Stuti Sohni Dalal
Shail Bajaria
Majid Abidi
Ujjvala Krishna
