Water is a complex subject with myriad relationships to people, place, and the environment. Through this issue of Unmute, we want to open out the various ways of thinking about water and the city. Water can thus be thought about as an engineering system to be managed, a sociologically driven resource, a source of livelihood, a vantage point in the city, a conservation practice and eventually as a life-supporting resource driving design. What are the many ways, we can think of water and its potential to propel new ways of designing our cities at different scales?

The housing sector has a large number of actors including government, non-government organisations, architects and activists, all pulling it in different directions. Instead of allowing ideas to circulate in a nutshell within distinct professional bubbles, there is a need to cross-connect various perspectives towards unanimous goals or models of functioning in the housing sector. 
 
Through this publication, we collate ideas on housing from different professionals to bring them on a common platform, so that each one is encouraged to understand the other’s idiosyncrasy. We hope this behaves as a trigger to re-think the way housing is approached, extending each players’ role beyond what is assumed as their limited scope of work.

In cities, the housing fabric is driven by planning rules, economic demand and market rates. The principle decision makers are not the users but the bureaucrats and builders’ community, while users are pushed to the bottom of the decision-making chain, merely as 'buyers'. If user perspectives are given a voice, what kind of a cityscape and housing dynamic would they paint?

Through the publication we forage into peoples’ aspirations, memories or even realities, which shape their idea of living in a house. The narratives expressed in essays and illustrations, throw light on the user in housing and importance of thinking of nitty-gritties or smaller details in housing which gather multitude of meanings in a home. The variety of perspectives collated in the publication urges a re-thinking and possibility to break from the current limitations in housing design, by evoking an imagination in the elements of a house.

Unmute 4 - The States of Water

Unmute 3 : Songs Of Participation

Unmute 2 : Housing Nitty  Gritties - Ideas

Unmute 1 : Housing Nitty Gritties - Narratives

Unmute is a biannual  magazine that aims at curating content around contemporary architectural discourse of its time. Each publication is curated around a theme, discussed in a public forum as a part of FNC (Friday Night Conversations). Self published by Compartment S4, Unmute invites creators from various backgrounds to submit articles, essays, photo stories, illustrations etc. expressing ideas, observations or thought constructs in relation to a pre-decided theme.

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