Speculating Stories from ‘Shahpur Jat’
Can design break complacent normalcy that peripheral development has gained? Investigating futures through critical design.
/ 2019-20
/ SOCIETY X URBANISMS X CRITIQUE
/ Research Sponsor: Treemouse Research & Design
/ Advisors: Dr. Shilpa Das & Dr. Jignesh Khakkar
/ Core 77: Design Award 2020, Community Choice Prize
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Overview
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BACKGOUND
The marginalised section is an afterthought to all developmental efforts made by the government. The implications of this afterthought manifests itself into various intangible aspects of everyday life. "The existence of villages, known in policy and planning circles as 'urban villages', within the sprawling metropolis, is just one paradox" that has emerged. The questions of inequality of access, of economic opportunity, of stability are
therefore raised.
The growing inequality in Delhi is concerning. What is the fate of spaces of urban contradiction?
The marginalised section is an afterthought to all developmental efforts made by the government. The implications of this afterthought manifests itself into various intangible aspects of everyday life. "The existence of villages, known in policy and planning circles as 'urban villages', within the sprawling metropolis, is just one paradox" that has emerged. The questions of inequality of access, of economic opportunity, of stability are
therefore raised.
PROCESS
The project started by understanding urban villages and conducted an ethnographic study in one such urban village, Shahpur Jat. The insights were then extrapolated to build futures. The future scenarios were created from intersection of future trajectories of rapid urbanisation, socio-economic inequality and climate change.
OUTCOMES
These scenarios have been imagined in various ways and illustrated through collages, short-stories and a film. These articulations are diegetic prototypes from the future and aim to provoke various stakeholders. Tools for creating contextual futures was also created.
An exploration into speculative narrative building embedded in ethnographic accounts of the present.
The project started by understanding urban villages and conducted an ethnographic study in one such urban village, Shahpur Jat. The insights were then extrapolated to build futures. The future scenarios were created from intersection of future trajectories of rapid urbanisation, socio-economic inequality and climate change.
OUTCOMES
These scenarios have been imagined in various ways and illustrated through collages, short-stories and a film. These articulations are diegetic prototypes from the future and aim to provoke various stakeholders. Tools for creating contextual futures was also created.
Film Snippets
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Tools & Workshop
The Change Map
The future cannot exist without the past; This notion is acknowledged and visualised to map context over time and through forces of ‘change’.
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The future cannot exist without the past; This notion is acknowledged and visualised to map context over time and through forces of ‘change’.
Futures Beam Diagram
These scenarios have been imagined in various ways and illustrated through extrapolating the present with forces of change and trends,
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These scenarios have been imagined in various ways and illustrated through extrapolating the present with forces of change and trends,
Narratives
