From 1990 onwards, Byculla Mahila Milan attended exchanges in India and internationally to share their experience of getting organized, of learning to use their own experience to design a core house for themselves, and of planning a settlement design from it.
Initially, women used boxes and cardboard to develop ideas to visually communicate with each other. This allowed them to question the practicality of ideas and explore ways to keep experimenting.
The community as a whole usually joined in to air their reflections and often groups would compete to find the best concepts. Nothing was right or wrong, the focus was on what was needed, affordable, and doable.Ultimately, the houses resembled the kuccha houses in which the pavement dwellers lived in. The vertical design allows the households to accommodate more members and have more space.
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