Yasmin road

Heading towards an unknown area of Dharavi in the night to examine the activities and flows of a street might not be such a good idea. We all had the feeling of insecurity raised by the first sight of our street, Yasmin Road.This area seemed not only more precarious in a certain way, but also the attitude of the people was different, more hostile. Or perhaps they expressed their awareness and curiosity in a more hostile way then we were used to.Anyway, the research in the night was not recomendable, since the behaviour of especially children and men made it difficult to focus on the work without being rude.I still can't completely put my finger on it, but would really want to know why. We wanted to map the activities of people related to entrances and streets of Yasmin Road, aswell the division made by activities of the pavement itself.Interesting was that ON the street, houses, shacks and little shops were build, and most of them not for temporal reasons.On a certain part of the street, were social housing ruled in vertical way, little shacks have been placed against their walls, like a kind of weed.A beautifull example of the changeabillity of space that has a particular function, but will become in a way multifunctional.The type of changeability can be temporal or cyclic. Someplace else on Yasmin Road for instance, the market stables, actually more cloth on the street, transformed during day in big brown packs, marking the pavement for the night, when they would unfold them again.