Compound 13 Lab is just one of many individuals and organisations working with the people of Dharavi and communities across Mumbai. Our practical work and research builds upon the rich tapestry of initiatives that combine education with creative enquiry, provide access to resources and evidence based solutions for communities and young people on the ground.
G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture
PUKAR Partners for Urban Knowledge and Research
SPARC Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers
ETC Group
WIEGO: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organising
Reinventing Dharavi - An Ideas Compendium
PARI: People's Archive of Rural India
Conflictorium - Museum of Conflict
PROJECTS ELSEWHERE
Agbogbloshi Makerspace Platform
Hazardous Travels and Toxic Commons
News reports, journal articles, essays, reviews and blog posts on topics of waste, work and survival in India, informality, recycling and circular economy
Waste management has a data problem. This approach can fix it.
Swati Singh Sambyal / 2023
Shaping our Cities and Urban Spaces: Arts and humanities research is addressing the complex challenges facing communities
UK Research and Innovation / 2022
Plastics: A Carbon Copy of the Climate Crisis
Ketan Joshi / 2021
Waste Narratives / 2020
Why Turkey became Europe’s garbage dump
By Selin UĞURTAŞ / 2020
Political Ecologies of Waste: Salvaged Livelihoods and Infra-structural Labour
Benjamin Irvine / 2019
ndia’s plastic waste crisis is too big, even for Modi
Niharika Sharma / 2019
What a Waste 2.0 A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Mangement to 2050
The World Bank
Arundhati Roy / 2020
CIEL What is the human and environmental cost of new technology?
Centre for International and Environmental Law / 2019
Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the wastepickers in the times of the pandemic
Smart Cities and Banality of Power
Ayona Datta / 2019
India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis
Harry Cockburn / 2019
Lucía Fernandez / 2020
Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism
Christine Bednarz, National Geographic / 2018
Things We Do - The Rural and the Urban: Women
Peoples Archive of Rural India / 2018
One of Asia’s largest slums is luring shoppers with the Internet of Things
Empowering the empowered? Slum tourism and the depoliticization of poverty
Melissa Nisbett / 2017
China: the secret lives of urban waste pickers
Tang Damin / 2017
e-scrap news
How The Dream Of ‘Clean India’ Ignores Ragpickers Who Work For Little Money And No Rights
Abhimanyu Kumar / 2016
Untouchable to indispensable: the Dalit women revolutionising waste in India
Carlin Carr / 2014
Women’s waste picker cooperative in New Delhi transforms recyclables into art
Infrastructure for waste pickers - Reclaim, Revalue, Reframe
Waste Picker integration Project, Melanie Samson, Durban South Africa