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Flat No. 4,
1st floor,
Girishant,
Plot No. 351/A,
Linking Road,
Khar (West),
Mumbai – 400052

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Snehalaya Pratisad Kendra,
Lendkar Mala,
Balikashram Road,
Ahmednagar – 414001

351 A, Ground Floor, Girishant Khar, Linking Rd, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400052

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Updates from the field! Our first building at the

Updates from the field!
Our first building at the Sanjaynagar Slum Rehabilitation project site is nearing completion and we couldn't be more excited. Some of our team members from Mumbai and Ahmednagar visited the site together today and shared these beautiful images with us. Stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks!

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Field Notes in English and हिंदी from o

Field Notes in English and हिंदी from our Natwar Parekh Colony project (Link in the bio)

The social space created in Natwar Parekh Colony earlier this year was a youth-led initiative, where the young boys and girls of the neighbourhood expressed a desire to clean up and beautify a space in the colony that would be safe for everyone to use. When they chose the space outside our community partner Najmunnisa Khan's building for this initiative, she shared how the view from her window has been completely transformed. Click on the link in the bio to read her account.

नटवर पारेख कॉलोनी में हाल ही में बनाये गए सोशल स्पेस का निर्माण वहाँ के लड़के लड़कियों द्वारा किये एक पहल का नतीजा था, जहाँ उन्होंने कॉलोनी में सभी के लिए एक साफ़ और सुरक्षित जगह बनाने की चाह ज़ाहिर की थी। जब उन्होंने इस पहल के लिए CDA की कम्युनिटी पार्टनर नजमुन्निसा खान के बिल्डिंग के सामने की जगह को चुना, तो नजमुन ने हमें बताया कि कैसे उनके खिड़की के सामने का नज़ारा पूरी तरह बदल चुका है। नजमुन के निजी अनुभव को पढ़ने के लिए बायो में दिये गए लिंक पर क्लिक करें।

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Catch Bhawna Jaimini (@jaiminibhawna), Lead- Commu

Catch Bhawna Jaimini (@jaiminibhawna), Lead- Community Development at Community Design Agency, speaking about the purpose of building on the margins at the Building Agency sessions organised by the School of Environment and Architecture (@sea_edu) and supported by Urban Centre Mumbai (@urbancentremumbai)

Date: 6th August (Friday)
Time: 5:30 pm
Free entry

Click on the link in our bio or visit www.sea.edu.in for event details and Zoom Link

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Field Notes in English and हिंदी (link

Field Notes in English and हिंदी (link in the bio)

Through the Field Notes section on our website we wish to bring to you the perspectives of different stakeholders as our projects progress. Our first such post is from the Sanjaynagar Slum Rehabilitation project in Ahmednagar. Ashutosh Singh (@ashutoshkumarsingh211191), Construction Manager at CDA, shares his account of how he navigated the second wave of COVID personally as well as on the project site. In the last couple of months, he and the project management team have ensured that the quality of the work and adherence to safety protocols on the construction site are given equal importance. They have daily temperature checks and have distributed face masks to all those working on site. A weekly reward system has also been introduced to incentivise the following of safety norms. Click on the link in the bio to read the field notes!

हमारे वेबसाइट के फील्ड नोट्स हिस्से के ज़रिये हम अलग-अलग साझेदारों के नज़रिये से अपने प्रोजेक्ट्स के प्रगति और चुनौतियों को आपके सामने लाना चाहते है। पहला पोस्ट हमारे संजयनगर स्थानीय पुनर्वास प्रोजेक्ट से है, जहाँ CDA के कंस्ट्रशन मैनेजर आशुतोष सिंह ने COVID की दूसरी लहर के दौरान अपने निजी व् कार्य सम्बंधित अनुभव का वर्णन किया है। उनके और प्रोजेक्ट मैनेजमेंट टीम के निगरानी में आज साइट पे बिल्डिंग के निर्माण का काम और स्वास्थ्य सम्बंधित नियमों का पालन, दोनों ही बखूबी से किया जा रहा है। मास्क्स का वितरण और टेम्परेचर चेक्स के द्वारा सभी के सेहत का ध्यान रखा जा रहा है। हर हफ्ते उन ३ व्यक्तियों को पुरस्कार भी दिया जाता है जो इन सभी नियमों का पालन अच्छे से करते है। फील्ड नोट पढ़ने के लिए बायो से जुड़े लिंक पर क्लिक करें।

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Some updates from the field! In spite of the del

Some updates from the field!

In spite of the delays caused by the second wave of Covid, our work at the slum rehabilitation project in Ahmednagar has been making slow and steady progress, following all safety protocols required in these uncertain times. This wouldn't have been possible without our dedicated construction, project management and design teams who, along with our social partner @snehalayaindia, overcame several challenges to ensure the work went on. Swipe across to see how the first of 8 buildings is shaping up. Stay tuned for more updates!

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We are happy to share 2 announcements with all our

We are happy to share 2 announcements with all our friends and followers!

We now have our own website - communitydesignagency.com! In the middle of two successive lockdowns, our team got together virtually to work with the brilliant minds at Alternatives (@alternativesny) to create a platform that would help our work reach far and wide, be accessible to all, and communicate our ethos and on-ground experiences. Click on the link in the bio and share your thoughts and feedback with us!

We are also using this opportunity to take our work forward under a new name – Community Design Agency, an initiative of Curry Stone Design Collaborative. The new name takes a cue from how our community partners have referred to us in the past 4 years. Since many found it difficult to say the complete name of the studio, they would refer to us as either “Curry Stone waale” (The people from Curry Stone) or “design sanstha waale” (The people from the design agency). We finally landed on "Community Design Agency", a name which struck a chord with everyone!

The social space created with the residents of Nat

The social space created with the residents of Natwar Parekh Colony in Mumbai earlier this year was meant to be the first of many such activities initiated for and by the youth of the neighbourhood. With the help of the municipal body, local representatives and partner organisations like Reverse Daan and Tulsi Patra Foundation, our plan was to create a library and install computers for all the young residents.

The wheels had been set in motion, but the second lockdown was soon upon us and work once again took a backseat. Last week, our community organisers finally received the computers and were able to set them up last night. The excitement among the children is palpable from these pictures they shared with us! We can’t wait for the situation in Mumbai to improve and join them in setting up a beautiful, nurturing space that girls and boys alike can benefit from.

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Natasha Sharma (@urban.poetics), Artist and Design

Natasha Sharma (@urban.poetics), Artist and Design Researcher at Curry Stone Design Collaborative, will be speaking at the Global Solutions Summit 2021, organised by the World Policy Forum in Berlin on May 27th and 28th, 2021. She will be talking about the participatory planning process initiated with the informal e-waste dismantling community in North East Delhi, as a part of our work with E[co]work Association International.

The project with E[co]work seeks to conceptualise and design an industrial co-working space for the e-waste dismantling community through a participatory and socially inclusive process. Only 10% of India’s e-waste is treated formally, and a majority of the informal treatment is carried out in North East Delhi. The environmental and health hazards of unsound recycling practices, barriers to compliance with legal standards and marginalization threaten the livelihood of the unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled labourers working in this sector. This project aims to enable their transition and integration with the formal sector, and create a safe and healthy space to work for them.

Date: May 27th
Session: Global Challenges - Local Solutions
Time: 17:30 - 18:15 (CEST)
Click on the link in our bio to register for the summit!

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The nationwide lockdown last year had a major impa

The nationwide lockdown last year had a major impact on the residents of NPC, with several families losing their livelihoods and many going back to their villages in the absence of any opportunities. We were concerned that the socio-economic hit would have impacted their state of mind and their resolve to continue working on improving their neighbourhood. But when we returned to the community late last year, to our surprise, not only did they welcome us back but also showed great enthusiasm in picking up where we left off back in early 2020.

It was important to build on this momentum and to resume work with a quick, positive and tactical intervention. This blank canvas of a wall (image 2) became an inspiration for a mural and, among other initiatives, we decided to paint it with the residents. This proved to be extremely effective in getting everyone on board, creating an atmosphere of hope and celebration (image 3) at a time when people are still figuring their way around the new normal.

By projecting the artwork on the wall (image 4), the outline was traced using chalks (image 5) and filled in the next day till late in the evening, for no one wanted to leave!

Thank you to all the volunteers who joined our team and the residents in bringing the artwork to life!

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Since 2016, we have been working with the resident

Since 2016, we have been working with the residents of Natwar Parekh Colony (NPC), a public housing neighbourhood in Mumbai, to understand the implications of poor planning on the present and future of the community.

Having returned to the community late last year, after nearly 10 months of the COVID-19 lockdown, we decided to work on something exciting and positive with them. Here is a glimpse of our ongoing initiative at NPC. Stay tuned for more updates from the field!

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