Thisai — where cities change direction
Mission
Thisai exists to make the invisible unavoidable.
We document how people actually live in cities shaped by climate stress, inequality, and exclusion, and we challenge the systems that pretend these lives do not exist.
We believe urban knowledge must begin with bodies, routines, and survival—not just policies and renderings.
Why we exist?
What we do
1
Urban Advocacy
Thisai translates research into language that travels across classrooms, communities, and public debate. Awareness is not passive. It is political, shaping decisions, power, responsibility, action, and collective futures
2
Grounded Urban Research
We study cities from the ground up—where climate, class, gender, and labour collide. Our work focuses on multiple themes, centring those who live with these realities daily.
3
Storytelling as Evidence
We treat lived experience as data. Through essays, visual narratives, and field observations, we surface the everyday tactics people use to survive unjust urban systems.
These stories are not anecdotes. They are proof.
We do not romanticise cities
We interrogate them
Thisai is for those who refuse to accept cities as they are presented.
For planners, students, researchers, storytellers, and residents who know that behind every map is a lived experience and behind every policy, a consequence.
Get in Touch
Whether you have a question, feedback, or just want to say hello, feel free to reach out
“To make our world a better place, everyone should have an idea of how architecture works and what it can have an impact on.”
- Boris Noir