THE RESILIENCE OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS -ADDRESSING QUALITY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
An article on incremental housing and informality by Rakhi Mehra, Marco Ferrario and Amarinder Arora published on the ISOCARP Review nr.14. ISOCARP Article mHS
Investigating Urban Housing Context in Ahmedabad
mHS CITY LAB in partnership with SAATH Charitable Trust, and supported by Abdul Jamil Lateef Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology is investigating the Urban Housing Context in the city of Ahmedabad.
Marco Ferrario at TEDxChennai 2018
Our Founder Marco Ferrario talk about our digital project to empower low-income communities to plan and build better. “We want to democratize the access to construction technical assistance” is a sentence that well resume our mission! Watch his presentation at TEDx Chennai 2018.
Digital Tools for Low-Income Housing in Indian Cities
In case you have been wondering what we do exactly, here is a research paper by our team on our ongoing work in digital technology in informal settlements – published in the reputed Facts Reports Journal ‘Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the City’ by the Veolia Institute and The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School
Agony and Ecstasy of Housing
Nidhi Sohane, our community architect, recounts her first field experience as part of mHS team and her vision of better housing for all. I find myself maneuvering up a chasm of a two feet wide staircase, so steep that I clamber on its one foot high steps. They are too short and leave the heels of my […]
The relativity of resilience
Our founder Marco Ferrario writes on the complexity of resilience. On 24th August, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the centre of Italy and almost destroyed the town of Amatrice, also heavily damaging other villages and towns in the area. With almost 300 killed, it left thousands more without a roof over their heads apart from […]
Rakhi Mehra at TEDx Bocconi 2018
Rakhi Mehra, founder of mHS, talks about Cities, housing and her life as a social entrepreneur. How innovative solutions can solve complex urban challenges and contributing to the creation of inclusive Cities? Watch her talk at TEDx Bocconi 2018!
Panel Discussion at MoHUPA
mHS CITY LAB was a part of the panel discussion on affordable housing organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation on 24th June 2016. Our Senior Designer Swati Janu presented our work over the last 7 years along with our latest project that leverages digital technology. It was a great platform to be able to […]
Smart phones for smart construction
Our co-founder Marco Ferrario talks about our latest theory of change and how a simple tool or an idea can change the world, one house at a time. Remember those little black gadgets called pagers that could be hooked onto belts? Or playing ‘Snake’ on the Nokia hand held mobile phones that weighed almost a kilo? In less than two […]
Digital Networks in Informal Settlements
This post is second in series of Social and Digital Media at the Sarai programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi made possible by a Social Media Research grant to our senior designer Swati Janu. The research is based on our ongoing project to provide design and technical knowledge to masons and homeowners […]