Innovation Centre

SPI will engage directly in evolving the new development trajectory. This could range from participation in active commercial projects to the promotion of new innovations. By allowing our staff and students to engage with on-the-ground initiatives, we create a symbiotic relationship between business innovation, research innovation, and human capital formation. To pursue this goal SPI has collaborated with UHF.

Urban Habitats Forum
Urban Habitats Forum is a public-private partnership, led by the Delhi-based India Habitat Centre, and managed by Mirabilis Advisory. The forum serves as a collaborative platform for a network of multidisciplinary thinkers and changemakers to push for innovation in shaping the next generation of cities in India. The forum aims to mobilise action by being a platform for intelligent discourse, impactful research and result-driven advocacy.

The Urban Habitats Forum was launched in April 2008 with an inaugural symposium on “Creating Places for People” For an overview of the forum’s past events and activities, click here.

GIST
Sustainable Planet institute is working in collaboration with Green Indian States trust on a project on environment accounting. SPI-GIST team is located at our Gurgaon campus and is working on number of international initiatives.

Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon & Sushant School of Art and Architecture
www.mcg.gov.in
www.sushantschool.org

a) Project to redesign Mahavir Chowk which is a major commercial area in Gurgaon.We will be looking the full range of issues hanging from walkability to propert rights and street-vending

b)On working out new municipal laws for the new city of Gurgaon. Specifically we are working with SSA to standardize the advertising and signage in the Municipal area

WWF

SPI is working with World Wildlife Fund to study the impact of urbanization on India's environmental landscape.Specifically we are studying the impact of urban growth in the Coimbatore-Nilgiris area and in the Kolkata-Sunderbans landscape

Delhi Nullahs: The Fractal metropolitan layer
www.delhinullahs.org
‘The fractal metropolitan layer’ is an endeavor in progress by Morphogenesis, that aims to reveal the hidden opportunity that lies within our organically evolved cities by establishing a green and sustainable network as an alternative source of engagement with the city for the common man. The initiative aims to reclaim the derelict, the forgotten, the recyclable, and the toxic by involving all stakeholders, thereby collapsing the boundaries of decades of non-systemic thinking which have generated unsustainable urban growth. The contiguous, sewage-laden nullahs, the greens, the alleyways and the river are viewed as the arteries of a city that can be linked to create an environmental network which integrates livability issues of air, water, sewerage, heritage and walkability. These ecological potentials and vestigial organs of planning can be modulated, transformed, and spatial strategies devised to optimize the ecological, social, cultural, and economic dynamic that can be created through them.