Urbanology

Dear Sirs:

I am a graduate student of architecture at Penn State. I am doing my Master’s thesis on intergenerational living in one-room residences of Mumbai. I have read some of your writing on the slums of Mumbai and am very interested in your observations.

As I am from Navi Mumbai and will be coming to visit in August, I was wondering if I could schedule a meeting with you to talk about my thesis. In particular, I am interested in any research that your team may have done on the living patterns of people living in smaller accommodations in places like Shivaji Nagar. My thesis is about what resettlement colonies can learn from slums and chawls to combine the cnstraints of the former with the responsiveness of the latter. Any guidance I could get from someone like you would really help me.

Please let me know what you think.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Hi.

This is Rohan, here. I had emailed Matias regarding my research on processes and practices within the construction process, and whether we could figure out a way to meet and discuss. Please do let me know if this is possible.

Best,

Rohan

Hello URBZ group.

My name is Zuri Camille de Souza and am a spatial designer / human ecologist working in a slow-fashion studio in south Bombay.

I have spent the last few years doing research work on the relationship between nature and cities–nature as resource, as pleasure, as a medium through which to reclaim space from patriarchy, neoliberal hegemony. I’ve focussed on Dubai, Istanbul (where I worked with Yasar Adanali and Sinan Logie as part of the Beyond Istanbul team) and Bombay.

Through the compilation and curation of my photography and fieldwork, I have conceptualized and designed two books – one on counterspatiality in Istanbul and the other on feral wild spaces within Montreal and Bombay.

Here you can find my work:

PORTFOLIO http://cargocollective.com/zuricamilledesouza
COUNTERSPACES http://cargocollective.com/counterspaces
FERAL CITIES http://feralcities.bigcartel.com/

I’d love to see possibilities to collaborate/work for/with you!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Zuri

Hello Matias Echanove & Rahul Srivastrava,

I’m currently doing a post graduate research on related to the production of space in informal settlements in India (Case site is Dharavi). I’m based in Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

I will be visiting Mumbai in the last week of January 2017 and would love to discuss a collaboration with Urbz on my project, especially with regard to groundwork observations.

Do let me know if that is possible. I can send you more details via email if required.

Thank you,

Kritika Sha

Myself vinay cleetus, M Phil scholar at TISS, Mumbai. My research topic is about Paanwalas in Mumbai. I would like to know about that Urbanology have any work or information about Paanwalas.

Hello,

Intrigued by the work conducted by the urbz collective, I’ve sent a message with a CV and letter of motivation to contact–@–urbanology.org last Friday, to inquire about internship possibilities starting mid-June.
The issues your team works on seems to overlap with many of my own interests, and I would be excited to hear back from you regarding potential projects.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, and best wishes,
Raphael Gernath

Good Morning , My name is Leena, I have worked in Mumbai 23 years ago. Subsequently I migrated to Perth. I have worked i community and have a masters in Sociology. I have just finished a undergrad in Landscape Architecture and am really interested in the community driven design possibilities. I am coming to Bombay end Dec early Jan. Is it possible to meet someone to discuss possibilities?? Sincerely Leena

Respected Sir/Madam

I, Parth Bansal, Student of 3 Year Bachelors of Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal would like to apply for the internship in your esteem organization.

The internship need to be of 6 to 7 weeks between 15 May to 10 July, 2015.

I have gone through your website and your projects and I have found them in my line of interest. and hence i am writing to express my interest and enthusiasm for the opportunity to work with your organisation with an assurance of sincere work. I have good communication skill and public speaking and discipline and also knowledge on technical software.

I have also working experience on a project “TOD along Pune Metro” at “Parisar” an NGO at Pune, last summer.

Can you provide me with the information required for the application of internship at your organisation.

I would be highly grateful if you provide me the same.

Hello,
I am a final year student from Indubhai Parekh School of Architecture (IPSA) – Rajkot. I have sent you a mail on ‘ contact@urbanology.org ‘ regarding my research thesis proposal. I have keenly followed the activities of ‘URBZ’, and having read a lot of articles written by you, i strongly feel that my study could benefit immensely from your guidance, as it talks about a series of issues based on the same lines. I thus request you to please have a look at my proposal and revert accordingly.

Thank you very much.
Awaiting a positive response,

Ronak Gangdev

Hi!

I am a 4th year Architecture student at Rice University in Houston, TX. With my recent interest in urban design, I have spent some time reading up on the urban conditions of Indian cities and Mumbai in particular.

I would like to find out about any short term research projects and opportunities you might have for a month or so as I am here for the summer. I am willing to be a research assistant as well as work on the architectural aspect of urban studies. I would also be interested in shadowing a project.

Please let me know if there are any such opportunities available in Mumbai!

Sincerely,
Tanvi Sharma

Dr. Mr. Echanove and Mr. Srivastrava,

I’m a first-year undergraduate studying Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford. As part of my coursework, I’d like to spend at least three weeks over the summer holidays shadowing an anthropological researcher on a project they’re currently working on. Another former St. Hugh’s student, Ursa Mali, passed the Urbanology project on to me, and mentioned that it might be possible for me to shadow one of you for some time this summer.

I’d love the chance to come shadow and assist in any way I can–I’ve been interested in India for a long time, and academically interested in a lot of issues that are particularly relevant to urban anthropology in India, such as race, gender, and class relations, or small-scale politics and justice. Please let me know if this might be possible, or if there is any more information I can provide.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Anne Meeker

Hello, I’m a literary programmer and producer from Australia. I’m taking 6 authors (3 Indian and 3 Australian) around south India by train starting at the end of this month. We’re in Mumbai then Goa from Oct 31-Nov 7. I wonder if we might visit your organisation and learn about your work? Who could I talk to about this? My local number is +919167005869. Looking forward to hearing back. With best wishes, Catriona MItchell

I recently came across your work via the blog airoots/eirut. I was searching information on google on Koliwada Dharavi and your page came up. 

I am fascinated by your work. Thank you for making these extremely rich blogs/websites.