"Post-deconstructivism"

The workshop from Monday and Tuesday was to build an 'informal settlement' outside architecture. When I heard this I was really shocked, a slum!? here?! It turned out to be a really nice workshop because you are undergoing experiences that people in Mumbai face daily.

To give an expample, we where faced with the security guys from FM who didn't allow us to pick certain materials, so it was al about being discreet as possible. An other feeling I personnaly had was that I felt really exposed. When we where dragging al kinds of materials people where looking weird and you could hear them think 'what the hell are they doing??"

We had a group of five people and we had a budget from E 50,- (E 10,- p.p.) to spend on food, the slum, interior etc.. We spend E 25,- on the slum and E 15,- on food. We spent E 20,- for the slum on a crappy Saran plastic material which afterwards was very expensive and there was to little on the roll. We had in mind to cover the airholes with the Saran. The other E 5,- we spent on a good joining material, rope.