EnteKochi Design Competition

Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC) in collaboration with GIZ India is conducting the Ente-Kochi-Competition, as part of the “Sustainable Urban Development - Smart Cities” (SUD-SC)project in alignment with Indo-German Bilateral Technical Cooperation. The project supports the national Ministry of Housing and UrbanAffairs and the State Government of Kerala in policy formulation on housing for all, basic services, planning framework, and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).

The SUD-SC project also supports the smart city of Kochi in implementing concepts of integrated urban development. KMC and GIZ are supported by the Kochi collective, comprising urbz, Mumbai (specialists in participatory planning) and Design Combine, Kochi (a leading architectural and urban design practice), as well as by urbanists, a Ger-man participatory planning and design rm.

This design brief has been generated through a participatory methodology under the guidance of the Centre for Heritage, Environment and Development (C-hed), a semi-autonomous institution that operates as the research and development wing of KMC.

It has been prepared with the involvement of diverse stakeholders including government representatives and officials, urban practitioners as well as local residents.

A detailed site analysis involving residents, the government officials and technical experts was conducted using participatory tools. These ranged from focus group discussions and field visits to in-depth on-site and off-site interviews, all of which were supported by additional secondary research. The urban challenges, opportunities and suggestions highlighted in this brief emerged from these diverse local engagements to ensure sourcing of innovative yet implementable competition entries.