Involving the Community
 
The immediate community suffered the most in the aftermath of the tragedy. As primary stakeholders to the land, the proposal has to be geared towards reaffirming their right to land and its development.
 
This project involves development of structures within an environmentally-impacted area into development of the site designed to aid in the Social infrastructure and economic revitalization of the area. The key to the success of this regeneration exercise lies is involving, representing and serving the community.. an attempt to bring the city back into the site.
 
Transparency & Accesibility
 
An exercise in urban up gradation and regeneration such as this can not be developed out of context. To weave the development into the existing city systems requires efforts to link the neighbourhood to the memorial – physically, nationally and functionally.
 
The site has been closed to the public for so many years, the local people aren’t aware of its potential Boundaries have to be broken down to allow the site to be part of the City, while the City has to reconnect with the Factories to be reminded of the tragedy. Transparency would imply reexamining and redefining the existing sense of visibility, accessibility and opportunity the factory complex shares with the rest of the City.
 
The southern edge of the site would be treated as a public place for the neighbouring communities where much needed facilities like as school, youth center, training halls, community hall and playing fields are located. It is an attempt, a healing gesture to give back to the city what the tragedy took away from it.
 
Cultural Landscape
 
A flexible regeneration process would help the Authorities execute soil and ground water remediation, building restoration, cultural enterprise, and park development in parallel. Along with these planning and managing an ongoing cultural agenda and a constant flow of activities could raise interest in the space and help change the perception of the people regarding its latent potential. Specific areas in the site could be leased out on short-term basis for cultural events.
 
This would keep alive the memory of the tragedy in the public consciousness.
 
The Event
Every year, the night of December 3 sees a festival, a concert, a celebration – at the genesis of grief. The world mourns the lost, the dead, the dying. The world also exults in the joy of a slow process of healing beginning to show, of a city picking up its pieces and moving ahead, of a bruised and battered people slowly lifting up their chins and looking the future straight in the eye.
 
Reseach and Development
 
One of the biggest environmental challenges facing the world today is reclamation of land from toxic drums and industrial contamination.
 
In the immediate backdrop of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters, the research center would be devoted to research on the coexistence of industry and Ecology.
 
The Research Center will contribute to the revitalization process by enabling artists, scholars of engineering, the social sciences, economics, landscape, urban & environmental planning and to develop a comprehensive, multi-level understanding of the challenges facing the city as it seeks to return abandoned industrial landscapes to productive use.
 
The Center would be built on the existing plinths of the abandoned factories and would house offices for various NGOs and developmental agencies involved towards the benefit of the City. Office space would provide an opportunity to build the tax base and rejuvenate decaying infrastructure of the whole site through rents and corporate involvement.

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