About Us

OURchitecture is a creative cartography initiative, an exercise in community-based spatial planning in unplanned neighborhoods in India (specifically Delhi-NCR). The aim of map-making and charting of such unorganized and temporary communities is to provide a bridge for the community members to firstly consolidate an identity of the space they occupy, and at a later stage for policymakers and urban planners to utilize these maps for development. While most maps in recent times are made using satellite imagery, in a manner that is distant from the people, OURchitecture hopes to understand these communities the way that they are seen by their residents, through participatory and democratic map-making.