At the Bogadi Road–AIISH junction in Mysuru, this effort began with a simple question: what would this space look like if it were designed around the people who actually use it every day?
Families visiting the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, caregivers accompanying children, pedestrians, and nearby residents pass through this junction daily. For many of them, especially caregivers and persons with disabilities, crossing the street can be stressful and at times unsafe. These everyday journeys reveal a gap between how streets are built and how they are experienced.
To address this, Greenpeace India initiated a participatory placemaking process that brought community voices into the conversation. Through interactions with caregivers, residents, and institutional stakeholders, the initiative tried to understand how the junction works today and what would make it safer and easier to navigate.
In collaboration with the Mysore School of Architecture (MSA), these insights were translated into design ideas that place safety, accessibility, and pedestrians at the centre.
The result is not just a proposal for improving one junction. It shows how listening to people who use a space every day can lead to practical ideas for making streets more inclusive, humane, and responsive to the needs of the community.
