three way street

The latest Palestinian embellishments to Israel’s “separation wall”:

Some lovingly documented doorways and other everyday things at My Building and The Sheher:

This is a visual essay on the Shree Ganesh Housing Society, where about 100 Mathur families came to reside in the 1980s.

The Mathurs are a close knit community and have a special relationship to the city of Delhi. Most families from this building can trace their origins to the old city or Sheher.

The photographs document how the community has adapted to suburban living while continuing with some of its traditional ways.

Via networked_performance.

Three Way Street is a group blog that explores how people remember, engage with and remake their environments in creative, everyday ways: building shrines, stubbornly occupying public spaces in physical neighbourhoods and online, creating ingenious adaptations of existing architectures and tools, running grass-roots residents’ and homeless people’s action campaigns.

The idea for the blog came about after some of us — from Tracer and Information and Cultural Exchange in Australia, and Hong Kong’s Community Museum Project — met in Hong Kong, July 2006. We decided to open a bit of a dialogue. We’re approaching these issues from different directions, and using different terms and traditions — “indigenous creativity”, “vernacular creativity”, “unitary urbanism”, “community cultural development”, art history and curation, design pedagogy, geography, cultural studies, etc. — but hopefully we can engage in some useful exchange, and also work towards linking these kinds of issues on a more global scale.