Mumbai Maps Interactive Panel System

The United Mumbai Panel System is a design project that can be experienced at the main Lab. The project provides a forum for stakeholders and local community members to discuss and analyze the fine balance between the public and the private, and collectively draw up a new plan for a  “United Mumbai”—the city-to-be that addresses the needs of all its citizens. The mechanism for this conversation involves a series of panels divided into themed sections—such as infrastructure, resources, and public space—superimposed on maps of Greater Mumbai. By overlaying the different panels on top of each other, visitors can examine and discuss what it would take to build a comprehensive and efficient urban network for the future of Mumbai. Over the course of the Lab's stay in Mumbai, visitors and participants to the “Meet in the Middle” sessions will also jointly form an action plan for collaborative planning—a memorandum of a United Mumbai.