The Green Pocket Initiative: Water and Waste as Valuable Resources for the Empowerment of Self-Sustaining Systems Part 2 Project 2019 Isabella Castelli Cardiff University | UK Water holds deep rooted-connections with all social, cultural and religious aspects of life in India. Numerous great ancient cities have sprung and prospered around rivers. However, global population expansion and increased urbanisation is rapidly destroying water quality and its symbolic value. The network of ‘Nalas’ (small rivulets) draining cities are extremely polluted by unmanaged solid waste and sewerage, causing harmful consequences. The Green Pocket Initiative aims to initiate a socially sensitive, city wide, waste management closed-loop system for Mangaluru. The aim is to restore the environmental balance of the city, articulating its social processes and systematic complexity into an organically growing, self-sustaining system, restoring lost symbiosis between man and nature. At urban scale, this is achieved through a series of community led green pockets, stitching together the city though a green belt of water filtering systems through biomimicry and bioremediation. The detailed design intervention explores the life of one ‘green pocket’, adaptively re-using an abandoned tile factory. The program incorporates wastewater filtration, plastic recycling up-cycling and craft studios, research, educational facilities, markets and public spaces. The scheme encourages each individual to be economically self-sufficient by returning waste and water into a valuable resources fruitfully restoring the city, pocket by pocket. Isabella Castelli Tutor(s) Dr Shibu Raman