sc.05 Informal housing [A+B]

Content

• Statement of inquiry
  • Increasing global interactions concentrate more power in cities which can cause unsustainable growth, and increase disparities.
• Factual questions [Remembering facts and topics]
  • What is informal housing?
  • Why do informal settlements/slums develop?
  • What issues are created from informal housing?
• Conceptual questions [Analysing big ideas]
  • Who has the power to improve the slums?
• Debatable questions [Evaluating perspectives and developing theories]
  • Is there ever a sensible solution to informal dwellings?
• Aims of this lesson
  • To develop knowledge and understanding of the issues associated with informal/slum housing, focusing upon Dharavi (Mumbai).

Base knowledge and understanding

Context

Slumming It - Dharavi, Mumbai

Dharavi, Mumbai

Note making frame

Criteria A+B assessment - Making bad things worse?

Criteria A+B assessment focused upon the reapplication of your knowledge and understanding of urban issues.

You are to produce an on-location style audio interview that shows your ability to construct meaningful questions and your levels of knowledge and understanding of how urban issues have presented challenges for the management of Covid-19 in Dharavi.

Suggested process:

1. Do some reading/watching around the subject of 'Covid-19 in Dharavi' and review the notes you made while watching 'Slumming It'.
2. Write a 'difficult' question that you would like your 'interview' to explore. This question should aim to go deeper than just requiring the reproduction of facts and figures.
3. Justify why your question is worth asking/exploring.
4. Research 'Covid-19 in Dharavi' and think about how it links to the urban issues that Dharavi experiences.
5. Write your script.
6. Record your script.

Research suggestions:

• Go to Google News and search for Dharavi.
• Go to YouTube, search for Dharavi and then filter the upload date to be 'This year'.
• BBC News - How Asia's biggest slum contained the coronavirus [22 June 2020]
• Los Angeles Times - While coronavirus spread in the U.S., an Indian slum with 1 million residents contained it [24 June 2020]

The assessed products are:

1. An audio file of an on-location audio interview from Dharavi.

The assessed product requirements are:

• The interview must be in the style of an on-location audio interview for a radio station or podcast.
• The interview must be no longer than three minutes in length.
• There should be at least two different voices in the interview.
• The audio should be produced using soundtrap.com.
• The interview must be uploaded as a mp3 file to the location requested by your teacher.
• The mp3 file should be given a logical name which includes your name. Consider using the Date + Big + Small structure → Nov 20 - I&S - Dharavi interview.
• The interview should start with the following structure →

We are here in Dharavi to [your clear and focused research question] because [a justification of why your question is relevant].

How you must start your audio interview

Assessment criteria - B i / B iii / B iv

Prompt sheet

Controversy

"This was poverty porn made to get ratings, and we are upset," the source said.

India accuses Kevin McCloud of making 'poverty porn' in Mumbai slum programme

The Guardian - The best idea to redevelop Dharavi slum? Scrap the plans and start again [18 February 2015]

Review

BBC News - Do we have to learn to live with slums? [16 August 2011]