Year: January 8th 2017
Event Location: Luz corner, Mylapore, Chennai

Concept behind the Event:
We wanted to throw light upon effective utilization of sidewalks and also the importance of community participation. To bring awareness to this issue, Cityworks partnered with Kreeda, a company that works with bringing back tradition through games, A carnival of traditional games was conducted on Luz corner, Mylapore. With over 50 people across all age groups were seen playing games. The entire sidewalk turned into a festive atmosphere.

A Beautification of Chennai’s Sidewalks
Project Background:

Year: 2017
Site Location: Luz Road, Mylapore, Chennai

With rapid urbanization and more people from the villages moving into the city, there is very little thought going into the planning of neighborhoods. A safe and walkable neighborhood is a result of ‘care for the street’ from the residents in that neighborhood. It creates a sense of ownership and connect to the physical spaces around them. With this in mind Cityworks initiated a wall art project on Luz church road to break barriers and encourage community participation in public spaces. The rest as they say, is history. After the successful completion of this wall, many residents around Chennai have formed communities to beautify sidewalks in their areas.

On September 14th at Infinity playspace-Santhome, this fun exercise was conducted by Cityworks to strengthen inclusive participatory activities among citizens in the community. Artist Senthil Kumaran was called to paint the outline and people from nearby communities, special children kids and parents participated in filling the outlines with vibrant colors. This was done with the support of Corporation of Chennai and Kilikili.

Project Background:

Year: 2016-2017
Site Location: Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
Kanchipuram kamakshi amman temple is one of the most ancient temples in the vicinity of kancheepuram among the other ancient temples. This temple was to be restored and the surrounding infrastructure around the temple improved. The Our scope of work on this project was to document the restoration of the temple and design to improve the surrounding infrastructure around the temple

Concept behind the Event:

Year:  2017
Workshop Location: Anna University Campus, Chennai
A course was initiated by Cityworks for the BRR department, in conjunction with Chennai corporation and Anna University. The course was developed by ITDP. A five day program where the participants were introduced to the basics of street design and process of conducting a proper survey. The participants were also asked to a practical study of a in the vicinity street and come up with a proposal to make it more pedestrian friendly.

Solid Waste Management problems in Chennai city have assumed unmanageable proportions. The convenience of the ‘use and throw’ culture has become so deeply ingrained in everyday lives of citizens, that it seems almost impossible to think of another way of life. Children are inheriting this culture and sustainable waste management is an essential life skill that needs to be imparted at school. 

CityWorks Design Consultants Pvt. Ltd., along with 100 Resilient Cities (an organization helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, economic and social challenges they are facing) would like to use this opportunity to educate children in schools about Solid Waste Management and its associated risks and, to encourage a culture of environmental awareness and citizenship. 

“Trashonomics” book that has been developed by Solid Waste Management Roundtable (SWMRT), Bangalore, is an application based book that includes several fun and practical activities and games, that gives students the opportunity to not only learn but also see the outcome and carry their learnings back home. This would be one attempt to build the much needed civic consciousness amongst school children, so as to induce behavior change in their homes and communities.