Some collaboration background in English for you who are not familiar with Swedish and to make up for the fact that we are having difficulties with the regular ASF-homepage.
ASF - Sweden is addressing the urban poor in order to contribute in planning and technical environmental issues, social housing and incremental upgrading. The aim is to apply skills and knowledge with respect to the three dimensions of sustainability: environmental, social and economic design and planning. ASF will assist in participatory planning and in creating positive habitats that work for the urban poor. The learning processes are to be shared locally through workshops and seminars in both ends where students, professionals and civil society will be involved. All work will be documented for future application on similar situations elsewhere.
ASF collaborates with SPARC, an Indian organization which organizes slum dwellers in more than 70 Indian cities in order to find solutions in housing and sanitation. www.sparcindia.org
Some examples of exchanges within the India project are:
Helena Ohlsson studied women´s use of public space in a changing Dharavi for 6 months 2008-2009.
Anna Olsson and Ingrid Svenkvist are working within the collaboration with SPARC in Orissa during the autumn of 2010.
Anna Engvall recieved funding from Wernstedt (Chalmers University of Technology) and spends the autumn of 2010 partly in Orissa gaining experience in different phases of slum upgrading as a background for her thoughts about cohousing solutions.
Anna Vindelman (urban planner and environmental analyst) representative of ASF attended the conference "Informal Cities". She is networking with institutions, NGO´s and stresses the importance of environmental thinking.
Anna Vindelman is also the contact person for the project in India. You can contact her through email (anna.vindelman@gmail.com) or telephone (+ 46703490652).
ASF-Sweden collaborates with Indian slum organisation
ASF-Sweden collaborates with SPARC, an Indian non-governmental organisation (NGO) which organises slum dwellers in more than 70 Indian cities in order to find solutions in housing and sanitation. Together with the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF) and Mahila Milan (Kvinnor tillsammans), SPARC has formed an alliance in order to support the urban poor to access secure and healthy habitats in the cities. The ultimate aim of the alliance is to produce urban and development practices and policies that are inclusive of the poor. One important aspect in all projects is that the poor must be partners, not beneficiaries.
Within this collaboration, ASF has sent one archiect and one planner from Sweden to take part in the daily works of the Alliance. During the autumn 2010, Anna Olsson and Ingrid Svenkvist are staying in Orissa. Anna Engvall who recieved funding from Wernstedt (Chalmers) also spends time in Orissa gaining experience in different phases of slum upgrading.
Currently the Orissa-branch of the Alliance is working with three different projects, which are all in different phases of implementation.
ASF - Sweden is addressing the urban poor in order to contribute in planning and technical environmental issues, social housing and incremental upgrading. The aim is to apply skills and knowledge with respect to the three dimensions of sustainability: environmental, social and economic design and planning. ASF will assist in participatory planning and in creating positive habitats that work for the urban poor. The learning processes are to be shared locally through workshops and seminars in both ends where students, professionals and civil society will be involved. All work will be documented for future application on similar situations elsewhere.
ASF collaborates with SPARC, an Indian organization which organizes slum dwellers in more than 70 Indian cities in order to find solutions in housing and sanitation. www.sparcindia.org
Some examples of exchanges within the India project are:
Helena Ohlsson studied women´s use of public space in a changing Dharavi for 6 months 2008-2009.
Anna Olsson and Ingrid Svenkvist are working within the collaboration with SPARC in Orissa during the autumn of 2010.
Anna Engvall recieved funding from Wernstedt (Chalmers University of Technology) and spends the autumn of 2010 partly in Orissa gaining experience in different phases of slum upgrading as a background for her thoughts about cohousing solutions.
Anna Vindelman (urban planner and environmental analyst) representative of ASF attended the conference "Informal Cities". She is networking with institutions, NGO´s and stresses the importance of environmental thinking.
Anna Vindelman is also the contact person for the project in India. You can contact her through email (anna.vindelman@gmail.com) or telephone (+ 46703490652).
ASF-Sweden collaborates with Indian slum organisation
ASF-Sweden collaborates with SPARC, an Indian non-governmental organisation (NGO) which organises slum dwellers in more than 70 Indian cities in order to find solutions in housing and sanitation. Together with the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF) and Mahila Milan (Kvinnor tillsammans), SPARC has formed an alliance in order to support the urban poor to access secure and healthy habitats in the cities. The ultimate aim of the alliance is to produce urban and development practices and policies that are inclusive of the poor. One important aspect in all projects is that the poor must be partners, not beneficiaries.
Within this collaboration, ASF has sent one archiect and one planner from Sweden to take part in the daily works of the Alliance. During the autumn 2010, Anna Olsson and Ingrid Svenkvist are staying in Orissa. Anna Engvall who recieved funding from Wernstedt (Chalmers) also spends time in Orissa gaining experience in different phases of slum upgrading.
Currently the Orissa-branch of the Alliance is working with three different projects, which are all in different phases of implementation.
- Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar, In-situ slum upgrading. The layout plan for the area is being finalised with roads, sewerage etc. Some houses are already under construction and plans are being produced for other beneficiaries that want to start building.
- Puri. This project has just started. Beneficiaries have been identified and now proposals for how the area should be upgraded are to be developed.
- Cuttack. GIS-mapping of slum areas. Also Mahila Milan conducts a slum profile. Next step will be to connect a database with the slum profile to the slum boundaries.
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