Prof. Kim Dovey, an architect from Melbourne University, revisited with SPARC, NSDF, and MM for a week in August 2012. Although his earlier trip was focused on Dharavi, his current trip was to explore other dimensions while working with us.
Even though numerous issues were explored, the one which was significant and linked to our present strategy was ways to improve our ability to support incremental housing. The following issues were discussed:
Firstly, why incremental housing is crucial to develop and support both at policy and financial level to help a larger number of the poor manage and develop their own housing.
Secondly, to explore how to deal with possible conflicts between private households choices versus collective needs for settlements about community spaces. Clearly the challenge was to develop simple rationale that would appeal in logic and simplicity for collectives to maintain.
Finally, the challenge was to see if the professionals, architects, planners, and others could make real contribution to this process, or whether this should be left to the evolution that emerges from community incremental construction.
The Dharavi development options were also discussed and the realization that delayed responses to solutions only leads to more compromises as densities and populations keep growing was acknowledged.
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