About Hyderabad Urban Observatory
The Urban Observatory at Hyderabad Urban Lab is envisaged as a set of projects around:
- data repositories, archives and libraries;
- research and advocacy;
- physical and social interventions around communities and places.
Each of these projects is to feed and support the other projects. For example, data repositories inform research and advocacy and enable designed interventions. Likewise, interventions will lead to new research and new data.
We look at the city as a place that is constantly in a flux, where agendas, plans and interventions align and realign. To remain in engagement with such a place we taught ourselves to create opportunities for research and advocacy, interventions and to keep archiving all the data that is generated from our work.
Currently, we are in the process of bringing together all the work done at Hyderabad Urban Lab, along with other relevant efforts from across Hyderabad, into a single, unified platform. This will serve as a foundation for future research, creative projects, teaching, and capacity building.
For collaborations, data contributions, enquiries, or feedback, email us at hulf.observatory@gmail.com.
People
There are many who have contributed to the datasets, articles and the initiative from Hyderabad Urban Lab and friends of Hyderabad. Each of their contributions are attributed wherever possible. The key people steering and coordinating this initiative are:
Dr. Anant Maringanti
Director, Hyderabad Urban Lab and ICGC Director, University of Minnesota
Bhaswati Sengupta
Executive Director, Hyderabad Urban Lab
Teja Malladi
Associate Director, Hyderabad Urban Lab