The word Cybermohalla, suggests a hybrid location, which has the open-endedness of cyberspace, qualified by the local specificities and intimacy of a /mohalla/ or a dense urban neighbourhood. CM is a network of three labs based in working class localities across the city of Delhi LNJP (an informal settlement in Central Delhi), Dakshinpuri (a Resettlement Colony in South Delhi) and Nangla Maanchi (currently being demolished, see http://nangla.freeflux.net); and a CM Research and Development Lab in the Ankur office. Each locality lab is a room with a few computers, portable digital recorders and cameras; and twenty to twenty five young people from the locality.
The labs are self-regulated spaces, where practitioners meet daily for conversations, listening to each other and experimenting with diverse media forms - writing texts, making animations, doing audio recordings, creating HTML pages, taking photographs, etc. A range of public forms have emerged from these – broadsheets, wall magazines, radio programmes, mobile forms (stickers, pocket calendars, postcards), installations, books, videos on cable television, blogs, etc.
Cybermohalla is a collaborative project of Ankur: Society for Alternatives in Education and Sarai-CSDS (New Delhi).
For more information see: Cybermohalla.
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