The thesis research aims to design a cultural sustainable center for the undeserved section of the society : women and children focused primarily in India. The concept is an effort to provide them visibility by restoring an endangered site in the midst of a metropolitan city, Mumbai. It incorporates the reuse of earthly materials and introduces the use of handicraft skills that starts to form an overall connection between user, site and program towards environmental justice. The thesis focuses that homelessness is not only providing a roof over them but also about providing design leadership and emotional inclusion in the society.
School of Design | Undergraduate Interior Design
Students: Vani Jain
Faculty: Melissa Cicetti
The collage curates a relationship between the environment and people that are most connected to adapting to natural materials. This includes women and children who are below the poverty line and are not given equal opportunities to grow. They tend to adapt to materials like terracotta, mud bricks, and renewable materials that they find readily available to use.
The image demonstrates providing power and autonomy to the invisible. The thesis focuses on restoring an endangered site, Esplanade Mansion, to provide environmental justice to women in need and provide them the opportunity to restore the handicraft industry and the site itself.
The research is extensively focussed on gender inequality and environmental injustices that are becoming brutal with time. Society is losing respect towards the environment and still considers poverty as unresolvable when homelessness and climate change are interconnected.
The reading here highlights Elisa Hoover’s reading on space, occupancy, and violence. It shares how oil companies are destroying the lands and the environment for power and greed. This affects the environment and the displacement of women who are pushed away from their land and sexually assaulted. Gender violence is growing with the poisoning of the environment.
The reading here highlights Elisa Hoover’s reading on space, occupancy, and violence. It shares how oil companies are destroying the lands and the environment for power and greed. This affects the environment and the displacement of women who are pushed away from their land and are sexually assaulted. Gender violence is growing with the poising of the environment.
The work here highlights the user research of homeless women in India. It emphasizes that they have no power, visibility in society. The social positions are entirely related to greed and economic power, pushing them down on the brink of poverty and having nothing to survive on. It is important to share that their presence matters.
This is a reading by Shirley Ardener where she introduces the relationship between space and gender and how women are affected by the norms of hierarchy and imaginative boundaries that are created within the space by society.
