area 128 – informal community
presentazione/introduction Informal community text by Marco Casamonti slum history: timeline by Laura Arrighi editoriale/editorial Re-thinking the informal city text by Rahul Mehrotra letture critiche/critical …
Informal Community
If images of slums, informal and spontaneous communities, favelas or whatever we want to call urban areas of poverty and hardship dominated the first room of the Corderie dell’Arsenale at the last Venice Biennial – titled “Common Ground” – realized by …
slum history: timeline
The expression slum is being used far too indiscriminately today. One speaks of informal settlements in more or less scientific terms, referring to different realities. However, the facility with which the term is pronounced fails to do justice to the …
Re-thinking the informal city
Today in most cities around the world there exist several forms of urbanism that coexists on the same space. These varied concepts of urbanism (whether Everyday Urbanism, New Urbanism, Post-Urbanism or the several forms of Indigenous Urbanism) actually …
Gran Horizonte: Taking a Walk in the Urban Planet
“The city is not prepared for the people, and the people are not prepared for the city” – the Perez family; Caracas, Venezuela In the last two years we have become urban explorers, wanderers of the city, recording the simultaneously timeless and time-b …
Women are heroes
Women – The Project Worldwide Always faithful to his 28mm lens, which gets close to the model in a way that makes it as expressive as possible, JR takes his photographs in post-conflict and difficult regions. These are portraits of African, Brazilian, …
Community School
The building of a public school in the village of Fansirà Corò is part of a public infrastructure program promoted by AFRICABOUGOU, an Italian non-profit organization that furthers education initiatives in the rural community of Yelekebougou, in the no …
Gando Library
The success of Kéré Architecture’s Primary School in Gando, Burkina Faso, attracted many more children from the surrounding area and an extension had to be built. As part of this expansion of the project, housing for teachers and a school library are a …
Incremental Housing Strategy
The Incremental Housing Strategy is the legalization of a natural construction process developed globally by the urban poor. When Urban Nouveau* arrived in India the Lehman brothers had recently collapsed. In consequence, the budget to build social hou …
Klong Toey Community Lantern
Klong Toey is currently the largest and oldest areas of informal dwellings in Bangkok. More than 140.000 people is estimated to live here, and most are living in sub-standard houses with few or no tenure rights or support from the government. The area …