Building a Resilient Bengaluru

Building a Resilient Bengaluru is a public awareness and action campaign by the Mod Foundation to understand and improve the city’s stormwater systems. It combines research, storytelling, and citizen engagement to reveal how our urban water infrastructure shapes everyday life — and how collective knowledge can drive better urban futures.

Information is the first step toward action.

When we understand how water flows, we can better care for it — from keeping drains clean to supporting better planning.
Together, we can build a city that’s informed, connected, and ready for the future.

What we do

Reveal Bengaluru’s stormwater systems through open data, maps, stories, and visual tools
Lead citizen-led audits, guided walks, and community learning experiences
Build public understanding of how drains, lakes, and wetlands support safety, ecology, and neighborhood wellbeing
Empower people of all ages to participate in caring for the city’s water systems
Strengthen collaboration between residents, civic groups, experts, and government agencies

When everyone understands how water flows, we can prevent floods, improve public spaces, and build a city that adapts together.

What qualifies as infrastructure? Who benefits from it?

Who builds it? Who owns it? Who pays for it?

What is the everyday social life it produces?

Through a series of public programmes, workshops, and collaborations we aim to reframe the massive infrastructure upgradation ongoing in our cities through social and cultural frameworks. Dividing into categories of water, mobility, governance and economics, we delve into the city’s infrastructure through multidisciplinary lens.

Our aim with this programme is to co-create strategies with policymakers, experts, and citizens that move beyond critique to real, scalable interventions.