"The megacity's (/Mumbai's) shortcomings in comprehensible organizational and survival urban structures have generated ingenious alternative systems that work in spite of its improbably extreme conditions- an efficient dysfunctionality always on the edge of potential disaster. Finding one's own place within such transient complexity is crucial and challenging; it is even more so seen in the absence of available or thorough cartographies"
taxi_onomy
> is the practice of classification from the purview of the taxi.
> the notion of archiving as a social act and the investigation of cartography as a tool for the appropriation of space.
> an art architecture collaboration that reappropriates the taxi using it as a tool through which to rethink and propose a series of inteventions within and through the territory of the urban.
> an architectural and virtual interface.
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Asim Rafiqui, The Idea of India
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