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Aftermath: it was gone. A group defended it from people taking it to sell the bottles. That group brought it into their factory, and later dismantled it and sold the plastic bottles for 140 R. They said if we gave them a real couch, they would have kept it, as they cant make money out of it. They liked the intervention and wished for more things like that…
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Intervention: we made a couch from plastic bottles, string and tape (we sold the surplus bottles for 30R). At lunchtime, we placed it under a canopy in one of the compound streets, at a T-junction with a small lane, and recorded how people reacted. People were timid at first, then tested its durability, sat down and socialized with eachother.
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13th Compound: another contact:
Met with a 100+ yr old woman who was the first one to arrive to the 13th Compound. She constructed her house after filling the marsh with sand and mud. She lives in the residential Kabba Walla Compound on the other side of the 60ft rd. Most of the people here collect waste from Mumbai, and store in the upstairs of their house.
13th Compound: more contacts:
Met with an owner of a plastic recycling factory, a doctor, and a former political leader today. All of these men have experienced decline in business in the wake of future development, and high electricity prices.
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13th Compound:
We have noticed that EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON THE STREET: sorting, storing, hammering, assembling, washing, thoroughfare, trucks, carts, bags on head, gutters;
self-washing, clothes-washing, cooking, eating, buying, selling; socializing at corners, under a canopy, at unused space.
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We had so many conversations with children, families, locals, drunk men on annual day out from Mumbai. They liked taking pictures of us…
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Aaaaaaaaaaah…
Train taxi ferry bus rickshaw: 6 hrs – worth it. Sun, fresh air, cool breeze, T-shirts, coconuts, goan curry.
