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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.

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ACORN India

URBZ

Artefacting Mumbai

Art 1st India

Dharavi Art Room

G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture

Artefacting Mumbai

Dharavi Dream Project

Toxics Link

Waste Lines Mumbai

Disappearing Dialogues

Living Waters Museum

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

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PROJECTS ELSEWHERE

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on the subject of plastics, waste and recycling

CLEAR Lab

Revolution Plastics (University of Plymouth)

Centre for Sustainable Curating

Governing Plastics Network (UK)

Discard Studies

Flip-flop Trail

Synthetic Collective

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on forms of radical pedagogy

Floating University Berlin

Devenir University

University of the Trees

Reflecting Oil

Àsìkò Art School

Participatory Urbanisms

Hazardous Travels and Toxic Commons

Practicing Ethics

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at the intersections of art, ecology and social change

PROJECT ANYWHERE

Feral Atlas

museum for the United Nations

The Arts, Environmental Justice, and the Ecological Crisis (British Art Studies)

Spatial Agency

Basurama

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News reports, journal articles, essays, reviews and blog posts on topics of waste, work and survival in India, informality, recycling and circular economy

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Global Treaty to end Plastics Pollution

WWF / 2022

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Waste management has a data problem. This approach can fix it.

Swati Singh Sambyal / 2023

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Less plastic or more recycling – nations split ahead of treaty talks

Joe Lo / 2023 

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Brussels tables new reuse and recycling targets to slash packaging waste.

Kiera Taylor / 2022

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Shaping our Cities and Urban Spaces: Arts and humanities research is addressing the complex challenges facing communities

UK Research and Innovation / 2022

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Plastics: A Carbon Copy of the Climate Crisis

Ketan Joshi / 2021

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Waste-picker & informal waste collectors of India seek safety measures from Indian government to safeguard against COVID 19

Waste Narratives / 2020

 

Why Turkey became Europe’s garbage dump

By Selin UÄžURTAÅž / 2020

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Political Ecologies of Waste: Salvaged Livelihoods and Infra-structural Labour

Benjamin Irvine / 2019

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ndia’s plastic waste crisis is too big, even for Modi  

Niharika Sharma / 2019

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What a Waste 2.0 A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Mangement to 2050

The World Bank

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‘The pandemic as a portal’  

Arundhati Roy / 2020

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CIEL What is the human and environmental cost of new technology?

Centre for International and Environmental Law / 2019

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Lockdown Diaries: Relief to the wastepickers in the times of the pandemic

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Smart Cities and Banality of Power

Ayona Datta / 2019

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India bans imports of waste plastic to tackle environmental crisis

Harry Cockburn / 2019

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Waste pickers and their right to the city: Dispossession and displacement in nineteenth-century Paris and contemporary Montevideo

Lucía Fernandez  / 2020

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Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism

Christine Bednarz, National Geographic / 2018

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Things We Do - The Rural and the Urban: Women

Peoples Archive of Rural India / 2018

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One of Asia’s largest slums is luring shoppers with the Internet of Things

Ananya Bhattacharya / 2017

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Empowering the empowered? Slum tourism and the depoliticization of poverty

Melissa Nisbett / 2017​

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China: the secret lives of urban waste pickers

Tang Damin / 2017

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Assessing Agbogbloshi 

e-scrap news

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How The Dream Of ‘Clean India’ Ignores Ragpickers Who Work For Little Money And No Rights

Abhimanyu Kumar / 2016

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Untouchable to indispensable: the Dalit women revolutionising waste in India

Carlin Carr / 2014

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Women’s waste picker cooperative in New Delhi transforms recyclables into art

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Infrastructure for waste pickers - Reclaim, Revalue, Reframe

Waste Picker integration Project, Melanie Samson, Durban South Africa

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