Our ethnographic research shows that individuals relate to production in three distinct classes – entrepreneurs, marginal entrepreneurs or strugglers, and toilers. Each group organizes around infrastructures for increasing productivity (material flows, access, etc.) and decreasing risk (removal and quarantining of toxins). Existing production based organizations such as the All Plastics Recyclers Association manage these infrastructures and spaces constituted by individuals who identify socially by community and form of labor. Thus forms of organization, labor and community identities, habitation and governance of infrastructure in space are intimately and inextricably related.

LOCATION
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

ROLE
Project management and technical advisement

TEAM
Vineet Diwadkar
Vyjayanthi Rao
Hector Tarrido-Picart
Christopher Alton
Tamer Elshayal

PARTNERS
City College of New York Spitzer College of Architecture
Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research

EXHIBITION
Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya 2014