Shah Dhanvi Chaxenbhai

UR2008

CROOKED CYCLE

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Crooked cycles is an intervention that has been injected in this cycle to act as an agent to arrest and destroy blockages in the sewer system. The action of clearing blockages is designed to be a participatory activity that engages people in the act of sewer maintenance. A hybrid of mechanical and electrical systems, each intervention is aimed to be a fun effort involving the community, dissociating removal of blockages as the duty of a certain section of the society. Sewers were introduced to Ahmedabad as a reform to improve public health, alleviate urban decay and create centralized order. Although associated with social reform and the removal of dehumanizing cleaning practices in its European counterparts, sewage and sanitation in Ahmedabad was designed to create new labor practices that enforced the definition of caste through coprology. It enabled caste based discrimination by giving manual scavenging a new form that made the practice a necessity but also concealed it. The mistrust in a self operating sanitary system ensured that the system was designed not as a self cleansing machine but as a hybrid of human and machine. Thus sewers were designed not as objects but work environments. They were designed sufficiently high for men to walk through them. Primitive maintenance technology continues to reinforce this cycle of discrimination. Lack of political will and the invisibility of the maintenance processes has arrested the development of maintenance technology. Manual scavenging continues to illegally persist in the city. The city in 2018 recorded 49 deaths related to manual scavenging, the highest in the state of Gujarat. Blockage in the sewer system due to irresponsible and non accountable disposal is the major catalyst that keeps this practice alive continuing the cycle of caste stereotypes


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Today we live in a world where social media plays a very big part in our lives.This project maps water infrastructure of social media on CEPT UNIVERSITY campus. How people are engaging with water on social media. How many places people have posted regarding water on the campus. Which are places with the highest posts. The video has posts from 2012 to 2019 of various locations on campus. The meters on the left shows highest number of posts from various locations.

This project looks at evolution of caste through corpology. How sewer systems were modified on the basis of caste system through social and political power. How the sewer system was understood as a mark of legitimacy and sophistication. How sewer system did not solve the problem of manual scavenging but merely gave a new form of it. The city in 2018 recorded 49 deaths related to manual scavenging, the highest in the state of Gujarat and India in 2016 recorded 53,000 manual scavengers still work

DRY LATRINES AND MANUAL SCAVENGING PRACTICING - NUMERIC DATA(2013) The central zone has comparetly more number of dry latrines because of its oldest construction.Although super sucker machines were purchased, they failed to work in some areas because of small streets.

EVOLUTION OF CASTE THROUGH CORPOLOGY

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation operates and maintains 9 Sewage Treatment Plants, 45 Sewage Pumping Stations and approximately 2500 kms. long Sewage Network throughout the city area. Saraspur, Rajpur, Amariawadi, Khadiya and Shahpur show the highest number in manual scavenging. Out of the following, khadia ward has been chosen to intervene.

Ahmedabad’s first sewer was laid in 1893 in the Khadia ward. Thus khadia ward has the oldest sewer pipes in ahmedabad. Today khadiya faces a larger problem of blockage and leakage in pipes due to being older and also an increase of population over the years. Machines used to remove blockages are not able to be used because of small roads. Thus this area has manual scavenging being practiced in the highest number.

LOCATED INTERVENTIONS IN KHADIYA WARD

This installation uses cycles as a medium to generate electricity which later is used to reduce blocking of sewage pipes. The electricity generated by each cycle per hour is 100 watt which is directly used to move water inside the pipes. These cycles are used by citizens of all ages as a medium for game, seating and exercise machines.This creates a fun, engagement movement during early morning, seeing people exercising on this crooked cycle. Also this engages citizens with the sewage system.

This installation uses wheel movement as a medium to generate electricity which later is used to reduce blocking of sewage pipes. The electricity generated by each cycle per hour is 100watt which is directly used to move water inside the pipes. While rotating the wheel motor inside the sewage pipe will start rotating. Various pipes with different sizes of holes are placed across wheels which will generate different sounds due to rotation of water and will make it fun to hear those sounds.

This walls have small big rotating rods fixed at various places, thus this becomes an hangout places for people where people can seat at various gaps of the wall and have fun conversation at the same time this walls act as game to be played where you can rotate this rods and play with it when you are bored. The electricity generated through these roads will be directly used by motor to remove blocking.