This year the studio will focus on the question, ‘What is a market?’. It will undertake genealogical studies of key shifts on the structures of markets and their resultant typologies. Through an analysis of these shifts, the studio will approach a given swatch of city in Borivali West Mumbai at the intersection of various market conditions; the Borivali Municipal market, the hybrid conditions of malls and shopping centres and natural markets that have emerged as informal transactions. Through an ethnographic study of the different sections of this site, students will arrive at relevant contemporary programmes for markets. Through a process of diagraming and pattern analysis from the genealogical studies, students will develop a spatial diagram for the new market condition. This diagram will be further detailed into an architectural strategy with material assemblies that produce a new aesthetic imagination for the market.