Discovering Khairatabad - Walkabout & Workshop

Discovering a city neighbourhood: Most of the times people only know the typical “touristic” information about a particular city or the locality they live in. Information and knowledge about one’s own neighbourhood is one of the first steps towards developing that sense of belongingness and pride for it.

Does this translate into better planning and upkeep? Does it result in better civic amenities, social bonding and security for the locality? This workshop is an attempt to discover, understand and document some key miles stones in the growth of a Khairtabad as one of the central and important constituent of this vast city fabric.

Join us in discovering a new Khairtabad!

Toilet Republic

In light of the Swacch Bharat Mission, talk of open defecation, clean cities and public toilet infrastructures has seemingly entered the mainstream discourse. But public toilets have been constructed for several years now and a variety of models have been tried to attain optimal results. The issue remains salient, though, due to a conjunction of inadequate (leave aside non-optimal) infrastructures and certain engrained attitudes towards sanitation.

Not only are public toilets sparsely distributed, they are poorly distributed. Not only are they badly designed, they are unjustly designed. Not only are they poorly governed & regulated, they evidently are not at all regulated. Not only do they not attract users, they deter them. This makes one wonder what kind of thought is put into designing/constructing/operating public toilets?

Toilet Republic, a workshop at Do Din 2014, seeks to bring together citizens and provoke them to think about public toilets. Why are they important? How have they been built and operated so far and what have been the problems? What would it take to come up with a feasible design? What will have to be the considerations and what resources will be needed?

Arvind Lodaya and Rajib Ghosh will be the anchors for this workshop. Both of them are  accomplished designers who are passionate about finding innovative solutions for tough problems and to improve quality of life.

A Place for Her - Design Workshop

Most women in the city confess that they do not have the time for any kind of leisure, or recreation, or self-enrichment!
Do Din 2014 will be hosting a workshop conducted by Srinivas Murthy. The aim of this workshop is to engage with women from different parts of the city and from different social situations, to think through the obstacles presented by their particular situations and locations and to think about designs for a possible public infrastructure or community infrastructure where women can seek recreation. A place for them.

Data Expedition at Do Din 2014

HUL will be running a day long Data Expedition in collaboration with The School of Data on 19th December 2014.
Data Expedition is a practice developed by the School of Data based on their two core philosophies of learning by doing and working with real data. The aim is to “explore unchartered territory”, and work in areas where quality data is hard to find, or not even produced. Contrary to general perception data analysis is not all or only about hardcore number crunching nor does it always require “data savvy” people to understand data or work with it. Do mark your calendars if you are excited by the prospect of working with real data and learning new skills, or even getting a deeper understanding of urban realities.