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Practice of repair

 Regulation of Housing; Practices of Home-Making
Dhruv Sachala, 2022


The thesis looks at the practices of repair in different contexts in Mumbai.  Repair means the nudges made to  the inhabitation over time. These transformations are brought about by the social and political forces at work on them.    

Architects build only for 5% of the population. The remaining 95% of people live in homegrown neighbourhoods, co-operative housing societies and cessed buildings, which follow a very nuanced and intermittent way of transforming their built form and work spaces through small acts of repair.  This seemingly irrational growth is an incremental process in which new layers are added to spaces with the intention of continuously changing the space based on the needs of people who inhabit it. The change in the habitation occurs in a very sporadic manner, in contrast to the linear set of parameters set up by modern design processes.

In order to investigate these processes, three sets of case studies from different contexts in the suburbs of Mumbai have been documented to help understand the process of making a habitation. This  includes an analysis of the political economy of the neighbourhoods, kinship networks, solidarities involved and the material practices mobilised in the making of these three inhabitations.



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