Diffusing edges : Social and economic restructuring

In an emerging and developing economy like India, the majority of urban workers come from informal sectors. This broad and heterogeneous workforce which includes construction site workers, venders on streets, women workers who work from home, etc. makes up for 80% of our economy yet they’re not considered while designing our cities and are often pushed to the peripheries that make it even more difficult for them to survive and serve the need. Hence a narrative-based decentralized and distributed infrastructural approach has been employed which makes the cities more inclusive in terms of their accessibility for the informal sector workers and its viability for them to survive without having to constantly move. This project is one such example of how an urban village like Makarba gaam can be included in city planning without entirely changing and redeveloping the site from scratch but instead recontextualizing them with smaller interventions.