At 8:30 on a Monday morning, a city appears to be doing what it has always done. Cars move through intersections, trains arrive beneath crowded platforms, cafes open their doors…
Cities are often organised around movement, productivity and constant activity, leaving little room for the slower processes of observing, experimenting and simply staying with an idea. And yet, these slower…
How often would I explore a city that I knew was constantly tracking me? Would I sit alone in a quiet park or a public place knowing that I was…
How the cities of literature, cinema, and speculative design have always been more than stories they are blueprints for the real, rehearsals for the possible, and warnings about the probable.…
A woman gets down from the local train at Andheri station at 8:30 a.m., keeping one hand on her handbag while she uses the other to lift her kurta as…
For much of history, life has been organised into a simple sequence of spaces – home, work, and everything in between. It became routine: waking up in one place, travelling…
At night, big cities can look almost overflowing with life: apartment windows glow above busy roads, trains carry strangers shoulder to shoulder, and cafés remain busy long after sunset. And…
For a long time, architecture has served a singular purpose: to create shelter from wilderness. Concrete, steel and polished glass are put together to protect humans from wind, rain and…
A city is more than hard concrete, tall buildings, and skylines; it is the warmth, the conviviality, and the human connection that give it its true essence. Strangers meeting at…
Densification of cities is not a new phenomenon. Cities emerge, cities grow, and cities die. Jane Jacobs, in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, argues that…
In places such as Gurgaon, the sky opened up, and in a short time the city ended up being underwater. The heavy rainfall caused traffic on the roads, left stranded…
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer’s words perhaps describe Karwaan better than anything else: a journey that begins with escape…