Projects

The Blueprint Phase of project 'Banao: Building Better Anganwadis' suppported by re:arc institute transforms three years of building anganwadis in informal settlements of Delhi into a public resource for advocacy, learning, and action. Moving beyond the documentation of the pilot projects, it distils a methodology for co-creating social infrastructure through design, community participation, and institutional collaboration.

In its advocacy stage, the Banao project explores how to build community-rooted social infrastructure in informal settlements - not just as architectural drawings, but as a web of strategies, collaborations, and processes to adapt and amplify. It will document and share how anganwadis can emerge through trust-building, negotiation, and participatory design, while also offering adaptable design solutions through public discourse and long-term partnerships.

It looks at architecture beyond the act of buildings and as that of creating an open-source blueprint for equitable care infrastructure. Combining architectural prototypes with process documentation, systems research, participatory toolkits, and public engagement, the Blueprint captures not only what was built, but how it was made possible. By translating practice into open knowledge, the project seeks to strengthen design literacy within government and civil society, support the adaptation of care infrastructure across diverse contexts, and reposition architecture as a civic tool for advancing equity, care, and housing justice in the Global South.