LANDSCAPES OF NECESSITY

Disrupted and disconnected urban ecosystems resulting from rapid urbanization have detrimental impacts on the health and wellbeing of urban citizens; particularly disadvantaged social groups. Two landscape sites in north Bangalore (Yelahanka and Hebbal Kempapura) represent an unplanned formal settlement with a culturally diverse and vibrant population experiencing environmental degradation and loss of vital ecosystem services such as food insecure and water stress. Through a community-engaged process, 24 MLA students in this studio develop new design strategies to integrate blue-green infrastructure and/or productive landscapes into the built, ecological and social urban systems with the aim of envisioning better work, live, and play environments.