Smart phones for smart construction

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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

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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 […]

Our pilots are live!

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Delhi might be seeing its hottest days yet but nothing stops our incredible team! Two of our pilot projects are live – at Sundernagri, Delhi in partnership with SEWA Delhi and Behrampur, Ahmadabad in partnership with Saath Charitable Trust where the community is availing the construction cost estimate service we have developed for small plots […]

ekSHELTER goes to Oxford

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We are delighted to share that mHS CITY LAB’s project ekSHELTER to provide low-cost night shelters to homeless families in Indian cities was one of the featured challenges at the Oxford Social Impact Case Competition 2016 organized by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and held at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. More […]