Jugaad

Chak Hin Leung, MArch (Year: 5)

Within our studio unit’s general topic of Homo Urbanus in observing how people live in cities, my project looks at how the challenges posed by the city structure are met by its dwellers’ ability to innovate and adapt, which are documented in the two films that I made in two cities: Venice and Mumbai.

‘Jugaad’ is a Hindi word roughly translated as an innovative fix or an efficient solution that bends the rules -- a flexible approach towards cohabitation in Mumbai.

By revealing the Venetian’s daily lives on a pragmatic and physical level, the film focuses on the bodily challenges that the city structure imposes — and how people adapt to it.