The People Place Project

The People Place Project A research and publication initiative committed to create more consciousness about built environment. People Called Mumbai is compilation of many such accounts!

About The People Place Project:
The People Place Project is an initiative to chronicle the life and times we live in. Through a lens of people and places, we hope to pin together the narrative of how we have come to be here - our language, our thoughts, our attire, our structures - everything that defines us. The Project will travel through cities of the world to unravel fresh individual narrative

s that add to the whole. Started in 2014 under the title People Called Mumbai, the project now aims to travel across the prime cities of India and the globe. About People Called Mumbai

What makes Mumbai ‘Mumbai’, is its people. Every person here has a story in his own - but their story is not theirs alone. Many a time, it belongs to a collective narrative, falling into compartments of the city's history. It is in this context, we conducted a publication project - People Called Mumbai. Begun as a summer workshop, the project has blossomed into a narrative of how this city was weaved by narratives of people born here and those that made her their home. A photographer at Juhu Chowpatty who doubles up as a life guard, a businessman dealing with beads in Bhuleshwar who came to the city to fulfill his dreams, a stranded tourist now riding horse carriages, a Bollywood ‘duplicate’, a migrant who runs the city’s only Tibetian restaurant and many more - they bring alive Mumbai. We often zoom past people, landmarks, places, with a little thought to what they hold within.

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24/08/2025

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A book reading and workshop of one of our favourite books ❤️ With at Thursday evening
19/08/2025

A book reading and workshop of one of our favourite books ❤️
With at

Thursday evening

Snippets from an amazing evening🎉Go grab your copies now friends!!!It's out in the world now... Read Enjoy Explore - He...
02/08/2025

Snippets from an amazing evening
🎉
Go grab your copies now friends!!!
It's out in the world now...
Read Enjoy Explore - Heritage!!!!


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We are so thrilled to invite you all to the launch of four volumes of Heritage Handbooks on April 22nd, 4.30 pm onwards ...
26/07/2025

We are so thrilled to invite you all to the launch of four volumes of Heritage Handbooks on April 22nd, 4.30 pm onwards at Asiatic Society Durbar hall. 

Also so happy to introduce the volumes: 

Bandra and Western Suburbs by

Vasai-Virar- Sopara by

Thane- Kalyan by and Shwetal, edited by

Mumbadevi - Dongri by i and
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These books have been a huge endeavour of research,  writing and production processes over the last 5 years, led  by with the support of
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The RAs are the soldiers without which such a project would have been impossible - an appreciation post dedicated to them follows soon (also to editors). However would like to acknowledge some core team -

and to have been with the project ❤️🙏🏻

Looking forward to you all to be a part of this beautiful event, graciously being hosted by through booked

Please grace the event and spread the word ❤️

Kindly Note!!
21/04/2025

Kindly Note!!

We are so thrilled to invite you all to the launch of four volumes of Heritage Handbooks on April 22nd, 4.30 pm onwards ...
10/04/2025

We are so thrilled to invite you all to the launch of four volumes of Heritage Handbooks on April 22nd, 4.30 pm onwards at Asiatic Society Durbar hall.
Also so happy to introduce the volumes:
Bandra and Western Suburbs by ,
Vasai-Virar- Sopara by
Thane- Kalyan by and , edited by
Mumbadevi - Dongri by and
✨
These books have been a huge endeavour of research, writing and production processes over the last 5 years, led has with the support of
🌈
Many RAs have worked on this - doing fieldwork, illustrating and type setting the book! They are the soldiers without which such a project would have been impossible - an appreciation post dedicated to them follows soon (also to include editors). However would like to acknowledge some core team members -
to have been with the project ❤️🙏🏻

Looking forward to you all to be a part of this beautiful event.
Please grace the event and spread the word ❤️

We now introduce you to our next group of esteemed authors - Anavil Ahluwalia, Tarang Matia, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna, S...
27/03/2025

We now introduce you to our next group of esteemed authors - Anavil Ahluwalia, Tarang Matia, Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna, Shruthi Ramesh, Sourav Kumar Biswas, Natasha Sharma, and Anuj Daga ..

As we get closer to the launch of CULT OF PLAY, we introduce to you our first set of renowned contributors and authors ...
25/03/2025

As we get closer to the launch of CULT OF PLAY, we introduce to you our first set of renowned contributors and authors to the research and publication. Introducing ALEXANDER HAMEDINGER, RAPHAELA KOGLER, KORINNA LINDINGER, .l .l JINISHA LODAYA, AMITA BHIDE, AKHTAR CHAUHAN

“Play is a medium of learning; it is where children make the best memories” - . Published by and co-curated and edited ...
24/03/2025

“Play is a medium of learning; it is where children make the best memories” - . Published by and co-curated and edited by and .ind, the book is awaiting its launch on 27th March 2025 at the . Published in the feature briefs on the research methodology, play spaces and contributions to the book by experts.

Happy that this interview is a part of the edited volume on Children and Cities This wonderful interview provided the o...
24/03/2025

Happy that this interview is a part of the edited volume on Children and Cities
This wonderful interview provided the opportunity for and to discuss indepth this beautiful book (a manifesto in its essence!!) positioning their work in the context and practice of city making.🌈☀️
Thank you for this piece ❤️

✨Wishing and talking for equitable futures is not utopia is the need of the hour and lets start this conversation early with our future citizens...🌈

Take your time to read this and other wonderful journalism on online journal!!

Talk at About using writing can be a tool to 'make visible' lesser known/ invisibilised heritage.The talk goes through...
23/03/2025

Talk at
About using writing can be a tool to 'make visible' lesser known/ invisibilised heritage.
The talk goes through various possibilities and forms of writing - from maps, to guidebooks to illustrated books that weave in fiction and art; to posing questions:
- What counts as heritage?
- Who has a seat at the table when defining it?
- How can writing reshape urban belonging?
Arguing writing (or engaging) with heritage is deeply political!

You can now catch up with talk online on Khaki Labs YouTube!

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