Muzaffar Ahmed Nagar Basti in Miyapur is representative of hundreds of neighborhoods in Indian cities where migrant workers have made some abandoned land their home. Children here play around garbage dumps.  As the settlements are not authorized by the government it is not easy for the residents to make investments or mobilize to get public infrastructure or services. The Idea here focuses on creating an interactive space cum park for the children of unprivileged settlements that can facilitate their cerebral and physical development. This space shall bring into focus the need for equitable accessibility to social and physical infrastructure irrespective of economic class one belongs to. Not restricted to only children this designed space must also be a place for social interaction for the whole community to some extent.

Ahok Jhillela

Arsh Mahal hill meets the Mir Alam Tank at a narrow strip of land that connects Road Number 9 to Nehru Zoological Park. At the moment it acts as a backyard to several communities with sewage flows and garbage heaps at the lake edge. This proposal reimagines this dead rotting strip of land as an active aspirational front yard – to launch a regenerative process.

Suraj

Rocks are the unsung cornerstones of Hyderabad’s ecology. To embrace rocks, one must walk around them, observe life around these, feel the contours, correlate the shapes with weather patterns, check flow patterns, and notice life around it. The abundance of life and the way of life around rocks is deep and highly diverse. Yet, not even a tenth of children have touched Hyderabad’s boulders in their life. This initiative will introduce the Olympic sport of climbing and eventually lead a movement where young people will come to embrace rocks which are the signature of Telangana’s landscape. This will also provide all who are interested, with a healthy dimension to associate with any place in the world by climbing say at the walls of Yosemite or the monoliths of Seoul or the boulders of Hampi.

Team

Arun Vasireddy