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The collection encompasses intellectual articulations—from course books and objectives to studio briefs and lectures—alongside a  documentation of student work, field studies, and thesis projects. Through this structure, the archive navigates complex inquiries into typologies, ontologies, and genealogies, while exploring themes of environment, urbanisation, futures, and ethics. It serves as a space for rethinking geographies and histories of type, offering the school's co-learning experiments and its ongoing articulation of space and form.


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Food streets, as infrastructure for the city: a study of the Khau Galis of the city

Humanising infrastructure
Hetvi Lapasia, 2019


How do Infrastructure of food, shape the experience of streets?

This question emerges in the backdrop, of new entrepreneurial informal economy, in forms of the food streets in various important locations of city. This question was addressed through my personal interests towards food. I explore this question by giving you an insight to the famous street-food places, also known as Khau Galis in the city of Mumbai. Vendors and hawkers set up their stalls on the on the streets, near important landmarks or locations of the city forming these food streets.

I chose these streets on the basis of their location, context i.e. typology and scale. First street is opposite Mithibai college, which I refer to as the "Student's Khau Gali" and second being, below the Vile Parle skywalk near the railway station, "The Local Khau Gali". Third one is behind the Cross maidan, "The Working Khau Gali". Fourth, few "Neighborhood Food Junctions". Fifth "Commercial Night Food Street" at Malad and last an "Informal Food Plaza" opposite Air India Building, Churchgate. I mapped the activities, the typology of the infrastructure and the user space which forms these food streets.

The Central argument of this dissertation is that food streets are an important public need and should be given encouraged to consolidate. The fieldwork helps further to break down into four sub arguments. First, food streets play an important role in the city's emerging social and informal economy. Second, perceived and sometimes actual, poor infrastructural quality in terms of the sanitation and spatial functionality of these food streets becomes a barrier for its legitimacy. Third, in modern terms, a typical street is considered only for vehicular movement, parking, sometimes for pedestrian movement but not for hawking and other informal uses i.e. creating issues of legality for hawkers. And lastly, Infrastructure of food on streets, act as an infrastructure for the city by energizing the city as food becomes a common ground for social interactions thus creating, a blurred
boundary between public and private spaces. Hence how can one reinterpret the food streets as an infrastructure for the city? How can architecture help to consolidate, improve and redesign a food street and present it as an infrastructure for the city?



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