SPARC SAMUDAYA NIRMAN SAHAYAK
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Action Research
 
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RE DHARAVI
 
In June 2007, a Black Flag day organized by residents of Dharavi demonstrated their rights to participate in the redevelopment plan thrown at them by the Government. In 2009, a committee of experts was formally appointed to advise the government on a participatory redevelopment process.

Soon after, an agreement was signed between SPARC-SSNS and KRVIA, a local college of Architecture to jointly develop an alternative strategy for the redevelopment of Dharavi, focusing on Sub-sector 1 of Sector 4 as a demonstration pilot. The KRVIA team alongside the residents documented all aspects of commerce, industry, existing urban context and its relationship with the city. Strategies were identified that create viable housing and work-space alternatives affordable to the people as well as to the overall urban development of Dharavi. These strategies are documented in the publication titled Re-Dharavi.
     
     
 
Impact
 
 
For solutions to long term challenges and vulnerabilities, strategies have to first identify the basket of problems and locate aspects of that process which first inhibit the poor themselves, believing they have a role and contribution to make in finding the solutions.

Action Research helps to document and analyze those challenges and vulnerabilities. Studies help priorities to get set and communities begin to link affordability and aspirations to balance out what is possible, then examine what structurally still continues to define obstructions in the form of resources, existing rules regulations and build strategies to address them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
         
MSDP TOILET SURVEY
2013-ongoing
BSUP 11 CITY STUDY
2012

INCREMENTALITY
2011-ongoing
RE-DHARAVI
2010
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
2010