Transforming Mumbai’s Indigenous Settlement Infrastructure
Over the Spring semester, Professor Rahul Mehrotra of the Harvard Graduate School of Design challenged his students in an Option Studio to examine the sanitation infrastructure of Mumbai. They were given one ultimate goal: to build a wide-ranging strategy that would upgrade the indigenous settlements of the Koli or fishing community and integrate them into the broader urban system through sanitation infrastructure. In the process, the students learned how design and architecture of sanitation infrastructure can catalyze the improvement of indigenous communities and potentially the informal settlements in the city. Last week, the Studio culminated in a Final Review where students presented their projects to a panel of critics.
