Twinkle Elizabeth John

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Among the many tributaries that join the Sabarmati, the Chandrabagha River had been a valued water resource for Ranip’s residents before the 1900s. Decades of neglect has depleted it into a trickling backyard sewer brimming with trash. Inadequate water supply has left low-lying river banks riddled with poor housing, unemployment, and social exclusion in stark contrast with the prosperous higher grounds. Out of troubled waters addresses and proposes regenerative solutions for the dire situations faced by the marginalized communities living along these lower grounds of the rapidly urbanizing suburb. In a landscape where people, traditional livelihoods and natural systems are being rapidly displaced without proper city planning, we reimagine the nexus of energy, water, and waste management to develop a new pattern of non-definitive, regenerative tactical urban inserts centered on rebuilding natural systems and empowering those dependant on it, while continuing to adapt to the dynamism of the river.

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