Education 

Masters in Architecture- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland; 1997 in Urban Design and Regional and International studies in Architecture (Equivalent to Masters of Architecture in India); Thesis: Earthquake Reconstruction in Rural Maharashtra. 

Government Diploma in Architecture- LS. Raheja School of Architecture, Bombay, India; 1994. 

 

Honours and Prizes

Award of Excellence in Teaching by the Upanagar Shikshan Mandal 2018

Jury’s Special Mention at the Signs Film Festival, Kochi, 2018 for ‘Nostalgia for the Future’, 2018

Best Documentary at International Short Film and Documentary film Festival of Kerala ‘Nostalgia for the Future’, 2018

Winner of Architectural Book Award of the DAM (Deutsches Architektur Museum) for Hybrid Modernisms, Spector Books, 2017

Winner of Printed Book of the Year at the Publishing Next Industry Awards (September 2014) for Project Cinema City

Winner of Dean’s Thesis Prize University of Maryland 1997

 

Professional Associations

Member of Council of Architecture; COA Number – CA/2004/3332

Member of Institute of Urban Designers India; since 2008

 

Relevant Experience

Teaching Experience

at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai 

Dean (Bachelors of Architecture) June 2021- onwards

heads the Bachelors of Architecture Programme Programme

Courses Conducted

3rd Year Architectural Design Studio, 2nd Year Theory of Design, 3rd Year Theory of Design, Design Dissertation, Masters Elective

Dean (Research and Academic Development) 2017 – June 2021

heads the Research and Design Cell, Publication Cell and Fellowship Programme

Courses Conducted

3rd year Architectural Design Studio, 1st Semester Master Studio, 3rd Year Theory of Design, 4th Year Theory of Design, 5th Year Theory of Design. Design Dissertation, 1st Semester Masters Studio, 3rd Semester Masters Studio, 4th Year Construction, 4th Year Town Planning, 5th Year Research Methods, Electives. 

Organised  Exhibitions of College Work at different forums including KRVIA @ 25, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, etc. 

Also Study Trip work exhibitions of Second Year (Leh 2009, Majuli 2010, Bishnupur 2011, Yuksom 2012, Shillong 2013, Alllahabad

2014, Lucknow 2015, Chakrata 2016) and 3rd year (Kohima 2019, Braj 2018, Ajmer 2017, Amritsar 2005, Alang 2004, Pen 2009)

Deputy Director 2009 -2017

Courses conducted

2nd, 3rd, 4th year Design Studios, 2nd Year Theory of Design, Elective (Structures of Knowledge), 2nd Year Graphics, Urban Design Studio, Masters 3rd semester Urban Design Studio, History of Housing Elective, Masters Seminar Course, B.Arch Dissertation, M.Arch Thesis. 

Exchange Program Faculty- Guangzhou academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou 2010

Fellowship Guide

Part of the Rural Studio Project faculty, in collaboration with the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Architecture, Pune. 

Slum Housing Studio in Pune

Collaborative Studio for Inner City housing, Mumbai

Full Time Faculty 2003 onwards

Courses conducted

2nd, 3rd, 4th year Design Studios, 2nd Year Theory of Design, Elective (Structures of Knowledge), 2nd Year Graphics, Urban Design Studio, Masters 3rd semester Urban Design Studio, History of Housing Elective, Masters Seminar Course, B.Arch Dissertation. 

Academic Coordinator 2003 – 2008

Involved in Administrative issues like Structuring Courses and Classes for the school,, Faculty meetings, Evaluation criteria, etc. including Organising Workshops, Exchange Programs and Lecture Series like

House and Housing

Urban Flashes

The Making of a Discipline

Workshop on Slum housing, Pune

Inter college workshop on Inner City housing, Mumbai

Research and Design Cell Coordinator 2003 onwards

Project Development, Management and Organisation of Projects along with serving as advisor to the projects. Projects initiated while I was Design Cell coordinator: 

Juhu Market Proposal with Juhu Together

Evaluation of Housing Schemes for the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services, India

A study for Inner City Redevelopment Section 33/7 for the All India Institute of Local Self Government

A proposal for integrating Hawkers with vehicular and pedestrian movement at Dadar station. For the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

A Redevelopment plan for Dharavi for an alliance of the residents and NGO’s of Dharavi

Cinema City for Majlis– Project Coordinator

Catalyst for Change for Rajiv Kasat Architects 2014

Universal Access in K Ward for Bandra Residents Organisation

Malvani People’s Plan 2014

Part Time Faculty 2002-2003

2nd Year and 4th year Architectural Design Studio, Dissertation

Visiting Faculty 1998- 2003 

2nd Year and 4th year Architectural Design Studio

at Anant University, Ahmedabad, May-June 2019

Module Conductor

10 day course on Architectural Theory

at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, December 11th 2015 to 18th December 2015

Workshop Conductor

‘Ayutthaya/ Ayodhya’; ‘Ambivalent Adaptation” Platform for Asian Architecture and Urbanism’ 

at Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan February 2013 to June 2013

Visiting Lecturer

Courses Conducted

Masters Studio: Group C

Lecture Course on ‘Indian Architecture and Culture’

Started the ‘Platform for Asian Architecture and Urbanism’ initiative in collaboration with Simon Shu and Api Kasemsook.

at University of Maryland, College Park, MD 

Library Research Assistant. Architecture Library August 1995~ October 1997

Was involved in creating bibliographies and research tools for the use of the students of the school. 

Teaching Assistant, January 1996- October 1997- Architecture 101 Course

Was an assistant for a large introductory course for undergraduates in architecture. My role consisted in conducting small lectures for a few students and helping them with their design projects. 

Others

Have also been External Juror for projects in different courses and universities including TU Berlin, School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal, Mumbai University, etc.

 

Professional Experience 

Collaborative Design Laboratory

Co-Principal, 2019 onwards

Consultancy projects for community organisations

KRVIA Design Cell

Design Cell Co-ordinator since 2004

‘Navigating the Grid’ – Research Project with the University of Edinburgh, September 2021- onwards, Project Coordinator

The City in the Times of Ambedkar 2017, Project Coordinator

People’s Plan for Malvani 2014

Fishing villages of Mumbai 2013

Cinema City (with Majlis) – 2009 to 2013, , Project Coordinator

CRIT – 2010 onwards

Housing proposals for Slum Communities, Mumbai

Audi Urban Futures Project 2012

Rchitecture 101 – 2008- 2013

Co-Principal 

Design of Community Building for Triratna Prerna Foundation, Santacruz

Interior Design Projects in Pune and Mumbai

Public Toilets on Railway Stations for Triratna Prerna Mandal, 2010

Rohan Shivkumar Associates – 2002 onwards 

Architectural Projects

Animal Farm, Pune, 2001- onwards

Fire Station for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Mahul 2004

Proposal for Training Center for Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Mahul 2004

Proposal for Auditorium in Bilaspur, 2003

Residences in Shahapur, Cochin, etc

Competition Entry for House of Multiple Dimensions (with Samira Rathod) 

Interior Projects 

Exhibition Stall for Aventis, 2000

Iraq War Protests Exhibition Stall, World Social Forum Mumbai, 2004

Residential and Commercial Interiors

Urban Research and Consultancy

VIsva Bharati Nomination Dossier by Abha Narain Lambha Associates, Expert Consultation and Peer Review 2021

Survey of Slum Rehabilitation projects on Recreation Grounds and Playgrounds, for Citispace, 2003

Survey of Hawking and Non-Hawking Zones currently designated by the BMC, for Citispace, 2004

Advisor and Consultant to Residents of Pali Gaothan regarding development guidelines and state of infrastructure, 2007 onwards

Saraswat Colony, Santacruz Beautification Project, 2004 onwards 

Cuffe Parade Streetscape Management Plan, for Clean Mumbai Foundation, 2003

Nariman Point Beautification Proposal, for Clean Mumbai Foundation, 2004

Waste Management Plan for BKC, for Clean Mumbai Foundation, 2003

Shivkumar- Shah Architects – June 2000-2001 

Co-Principal of the firm. Key Projects include Exhibition Stalls for ATE Enterprises in ITME 2004 and ITME 2008, Residences In Cochin. 

Urban Design Research Institute 1998- 2000

Churchgate Revival Project, 2000 – Project Coordinator

a study and Master Plan of the Churchgate area sponsored by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation- which developed urban design and planning strategies for the Churchgate Area in association with the authorities and citizens groups. The project is currently under construction. 

Tourist District Project, 2001 – Project Coordinator

a study and Master Plan of the Colaba area sponsored by the Colaba Tourist District Association- which developed urban design and planning strategies for the Colaba in association with the authorities and citizens groups. 

Publication on Navi Mumbai – Researcher 

Researching and compiling a documentation on New Towns: Looking at New Bombay.

Conducted Surveys and Documentation of the City, 1999 – 2000

Consultant to the drawings for the 20Casi Project

Exhibitions and Publications – Consultant for the ‘Buildings of the Kalaghoda’ publication 

Consultant Survey of status of Existing Listed Buildings- Phase 1, for the MMRHCS, 2007  

Thadani-Hetzel Architects, Mumbai- January 1998- January 2000 

Project Architect for architecture’ and urban design research projects in Mumbai and abroad. Also worked on master plans for townships in Bangalore and Switzerland

Venkatesh Rao Architects, Mumbai – 1994-1995 

Junior Architect, was involved in several interior design projects including and office interior and a few apartments 

CNA Architects, Mumbai 1993-94 

Trainee Architect _ Was involved in primarily conceptual design of several architectural projects including row houses and a community centre 

Community Involvement

Consultant to many Community Based organizations and Non Governmental Organizations on Urban projects including- the Clean Mumbai Foundation, Citispace, Santacruz Saraswat Colony Residents Group 

 

Publications / Articles

 

• Introductory text for ‘Kit of Parts’ Exhibition by Samira Rathod, Gallery Chemould Prescott Road, 30 June 2022
• ’Queering the Classroom’, KRVIA Blog, March 2022, (https://krvia.ac.in/new-blog-14/)
• ’To teach is to love the world; to let the world teach us to love’: The Future of Architectural Education, IFJ The Indian Review of World Furniture, Interiors and Design, 100th Collectors Edition, September- October 2021
• ‘Shashi the Production Manager’ for Bombay Brokers- ed, Lisa Bjorkman (2021) 
• Vertical City India – Interview with editors of Greyscape.com, 2021
• ‘Building Sense’ – Editor of proposed series of books by People Place Project, 2022
• ‘Inventing the Public’- Article for publication on the Architecture of Maharashtra, edited by Narendra Dengle, 2020
• ‘Architecture Spaces: His Final Frontier’ a review of ‘Ranjit Sabikhi’s ‘A Sense of Space: The Crisis of Urban Design in India, India Today January 2020
• ’A Eulogy for the Present’- The Death of Architecture Exhibition, for ‘Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture’ edited by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White, Routledge 2019
• ‘Our Ugly Wasteland’ Review of ‘Delirious City’ by Gautam Bhatia for India Today December 2019
• ‘Mirrored Modernities: Dharavi and Marine Drive’ for LA Journal 2019
• ’Design Process- The Home’ co-author with Sonal Sundararajan (in process)
• ‘Nostalgia for the Future’ an interview with Amrita Gupta Singh, Hakara Volume 1, May 1 2017
• ‘Architecture, Films Division lore and nation building find a home’ – Interviewed in Scroll by Nandini Ramnath, Jan 11 2017
• ‘The Studio as Stage’, Antarya, Issue 12 2016
• ‘Imagining the City and the Home’; sahapedia.org, 2016 (http://www.sahapedia.org/imagining-the-city-and-the-home-modern-india)
• ‘7 Dialectical Concerns about the education of an Architect’, Archiving Thesis, Council of Architecture 2016
• ‘The Terminator Complex’ Indian Architect and Builder, October 2015
• ‘Dissolve’, essay in ‘Catalytic Commoning’ University of Leeds 2015
• ‘Utopian Chimeras of the Future’ – The Hindu July 26, 2015
• ‘Archiving the Dusk of the Public Realm’ – The Photographs of Haubitz+Zoche of Cinema Halls in South India; ‘Hybrid Modernisms, Spector Books, 2016 (WINNER OF Architectural Book Award 2017 of the DAM (Deutsches Architektur Museum)
• ‘Mirrors and Masks: Modernity (Approximately)’ – Reflections 2014, KRVIA, Mumbai
• ‘Project Cinema City’, editor, Tulika Books 2013, Winner of Printed Book of the Year at the Publishing Next Industry Awards (September 2014)
• ‘Review of Demolition Series: Bijoy Jain’, Art India Magazine February 2014
• ‘The Spectral City, Desire/Image’, Project Cinema City, Tulika Books 2013
• ‘Photoessay on Milap Cinema Demolition’, Project Cinema City, Tulika Books, 2013
• ‘Cartographies of Marine Lines and Bandra/Mahim’, Project Cinema City, Tulika Books, 2013
• ‘Nostalgia for the Future’, Reflections, KRVIA 2013
• ‘The Drawing as Object’, Reflections, KRVIA 2012
• ‘Conceptualising a Cinema City’; Indian Architect and Builder, June 2012
• Cinema City ‘Atlas’ – Editor for Project Cinema City Exhibition 2011
• ‘Cinema City Lived’, Editor, Berlinale 2010
• ‘The Spectral City’, SPADE 3, 2011
• ‘The Pursuit of Pleasure- The Dalmia House’, Monograph for the Dalmia House, 2011
• ‘Mumbai- Shanghai – ‘SAME-SAME’; Research and publication in collaboration with ‘West Heavens’ , 2011
• ‘What Design Can Do’, Interview for Design Indaba Q311 ‘Metropolis’ , South Africa, July 2011
• ‘Nature Denatured/ Recaptured’, On Nature- Reflections 2010, KRVIA
• ‘The Extraordinary Everyday’; Reclaiming (the Urbanism of) Mumbai, Ed- Janina Gosseye and Kelly Shannon, SUN ACADEMIA, 2009
• ‘Beyond Identity- a call for a manifesto beyond identity’, SPADE 2, 2009
• ‘Displaced Domesticities’, SPADE 1, 2008
• ‘Whose Festival is it Anyway’, Art India, Quarter 2, 2001
• ‘Mumbai’s Needways’ (with Preeti Goel Sanghi) , Art India, Quarter 4, 2000 
• ‘Rethinking utopia’  (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Anubhav, Aug-Sep, 2000 
• ‘Concrete jungle Laws’  (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Art India, Quarter 3, 2000 
• ‘Architects of Change’  (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Indian Express (Mumbai Newsline) March 4, 2000 
• ‘De-constructing Utopia’  (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Indian Architect and Builder, December 1999 
• ‘A Dialectic of Identity’  (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Indian Architect and Builder, December 1999 
• ‘Confronting Conflict’  (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Indian Architect and Builder, September 1999 
• ‘Protected Public Realms’ (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Architecture + Design, Jul-Aug 1999 
• ‘Designing for now’  (with Preeti Goel Sanghi), Indian Architect and Builder, June 1999 

Intermittent Book Reviewer for Architectural Digest India Book Reviewer since July 2017

 

Exhibitions

• Contributor to the Chicago Architecture Biennale ‘And other such stories…’  ‘Nostalgia for the Future’, September 19, 2019, through January 5, 2020
• Contributor to ‘Collective City’ curated by Sameep Padora for Seoul Architecture Biennale 2019
• ‘A Smile is a Screen’, Part of Group Show 2020, Kalaghoda Art Festival 2018, Mumbai
• ‘The City in the times of Ambedkar’- Exhibition at the Columbia Global Center, Mumbai, 14 February, 2017
• ‘The City in Language’- sound installations at the Indian Languages Mela, Tata Institute for Social Studies, Mumbai, Setember 2013
• Audi Urban Futures Exhibition (with CRIT), Istanbul, October 2012
• Project Cinema City Exhibitions, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, 19th May 2012- December 2012; “Cinema City Lived” – The Pipeline Installation- Art project, 19th May 2012- December 2012; Cinema City Exhibition, FTII Pune, March 2011; Opening Exhibition Cinema City Exhibition (NCPA, Mumbai October 2009)

 

Lectures, Workshops and Conferences 

Outside India 

 

• Workshop on ‘Navigating the Grid’ University of Edinburgh, May 30- June 3 2022
• ‘Temporary Spaces- Exchanges in Art, Architecture and Photography in the UAE, South Asia and Beyond Symposium’ Organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre Transnational and Alserkal Arts Foundation in collaboration with Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai 1 November 2019 (Lecture)
• ‘The Future of Cities’ CreativeDays 2019, Stuttgart 20 August 2019 (Lecture)
• ‘Slum as Spectre’- ‘Asian Vertigo’, AAS-IN-ASIA 2019 CONFERENCE  “Asia In Motion: “Asia on the Rise?”, 1-3 July, Bangkok,Thailand (Lecture)
• ’Housing Standards and Ideals’ The Case of Housing in India, TU Delft, June 22 2017 (Symposium)
• ‘Redeveloping the City’, ‘Imagining the Cinema City’, CemiS, Gottingen, 1947-2017, June 2017 (Lecture)
• ‘Caste, the City and the Nation: Reimagining Ambedkar’s Bombay’, CemiS, Gottingen, 1947-2017, June 2017 (Lecture)
• ‘Nation Building and postcolonial futures’: Building the Dream World; Space, Place and the (re)making of “New India”-  CemiS, Gottingen, 1947-2017, June 2017 (Lecture)
• Brussels Seed Community Meeting, FES, 28, 29 August 2017 (Symposium)
• Thematic Workshop, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, Building Inclusive Urban Communities, Erasmus + Project, May 2016 (Workshop)
• Thematic Workshop, Twente University, Netherlands, Building Inclusive Urban Communities, Erasmus + Project, May- June 2016 (Workshop)
• Thematic Workshop, Kick-off Meeting, Building Inclusive Urban Communities, Erasmus + Programme, Krems, Austria, Feb 8th to the 15th, 2016 (Workshop)
• Ambivalent Adaptation, Workshop conductor, Platform for Asian Architecture and Urbanism 03, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Dec 11- 18, 2015 (Workshop)
• ‘What Design Can Do’, Conference in Sao Paolo, 8 December 2015 (Lecture)
• ‘What Design Can Destroy’, Session in ‘What Design Can Do’, Sao Paolo, 9 December 2015 (Lecture)
• ‘The Street as the Theatre of Conflict’, Lecture at FAAP, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 30th November 2015 (Lecture)
• Housing the Majority, Conference, Columbia University, New York, Mar 10 2015
• ‘Spaces for production and consumption of Cinema in Mumbai’, Talk at Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China; 30th December 2014 (Lecture)
• ‘‘The Politics of Urban Religious Architecture’ Conference at Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 22-24 October 2014 (Lecture)
• Guest Juror for Thesis at Shih Chien University, Taipei, June 3 2013 
• ‘Thesis in Mumbai’ Presentation at Thesis Exhibition opening of Tunghai University, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, June 6 2013 (Lecture)
• Mumbai: A City under transformation, Presentation at National Chaio Tung University, Hsinchu Taiwan, 22nd June 2013 (Lecture)
• Cinema and the city of Mumbai, Presentation at National Chaio Tung University, Hsinchu Taiwan, 22nd June 2013 (Lecture)
• Presentation on ‘Cinema City’ Fengjia Universiity, Taichung, Taiwan, May 24 2013 (Lecture)
• ‘Cinema City’ Presentation at Forum for Architecture and Culture, Taichung, April 12th 2013 (Lecture)
• The City as Home and Infrastructure, Princeton University, USA, 16-17 November 2012 (Lecture)
• ‘What Design Can Do’, May 25th, and 26th, 2011 conference in Amsterdam. (Lecture)
• Cinema City Panel Discussion and Exhibition at the Berlinale 2010, Berlin (February 2010) (Lecture)
• ‘An architecture for this city’ – Notes from Mumbai- Lecture at Kornhaus, Berne, Switzerland, 2007 (Lecture)
• ‘Final Destination, Longing’, TU Berlin, 2007 (Workshop)

In India

• Intuition as Method/ The (il)Logic of Beauty. – Panel Discussion, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 30 July 2022
• ’Citizen Cyborg’, Bodies, Unprotected Seminar at G5A, Mumbai organised by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the Goethe Institute., 29 March 2022.
• Extreme Urbanism 6, Sanitation as Infrastructure, Panelist for book Release, Max Mueller Bhavan, 27 December 2021
• Queering the Classroom, “Social Science Approach in Architecture and Urbanism” COA_TTP, LSR College of Architecture, 05th to 08th October 2021.
• The Charles Correa Memorial Lecture, Aditya College of Architecture, 22 September 2021
• ’The Machine is the Home for Living’, Normal?, Ecologies of Adaptation, Avani College of Architecture, 4-5 September 2021
• ’Representing the Invisible Other: Academic Explorations in Mapping the Subaltern (with Sandeep Menon), EADI ISS Conference 2021: Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice, 5-8 Jul 2021 (Paper presentation)
• ’’Designing a Design Studio’ – ‘National Online Teacher Training Program (TTP) For Architecture Faculties’, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, 15 Feb 2021 (Lecture)
• Keynote Address, Envisage 2020, BMSCA Nov 18 2020
• ‘Domesticity and the Image’ Keynote at Documentary Film Festival, Sophia College, Mumbai, 28 February 2020 (Lecture)
• ‘Architecture and Domesticity’, Panel Discussion, Nine Fish, Mumbai 19 January 2020 (Panel Discussion)
• ‘Smart City in India’, Panel Discussion, Alliance Francaise, 28 November 2019 (Panel Discussion)
• ‘Architecture in Maharashtra’, Pune, 21,22 July 2018 (Workshop)
• ’Nostalgia for the Future’ India Arch Dialogue, Delhi, 2018 (Lecture)
• ’Death of Architecture’, Mumbai, 24 February 2018 (Panel Discussion)
• ’Nostalgia for the Future’, FCDI, India Arch Dialogue 2018, Delhi 15 Feb 2018 (Lecture)
• The Toilet Manifesto, 1st December 2017, Nehru Science Center, Mumbai (Panel Discussion)
• ’Sustainability and Design’, Sustainability Sensitising Workshop, 3 September 2017, KRVIA (Lecture)
• ‘Architectural Spaces’ and ‘Architecture and Indian Modernity, Foundation Workshop, FTII Pune, 3 August 2017 (Lecture)
• “Shaping India’s Urban Transformation” – FES-KRVIA Roundtable, 25 July 2017 (Workshop)
• ‘Reading Architecture Practice’-, G5A, July 13th 2017 (Panel Discussion)
• ‘Framing the Slum’, FEED Pune, 24 Feb 2017 (Lecture)
• ‘Modernity and the Home’ ; Jaipur Architecture Festival, 2-4 Feb 2017 (Lecture)
• ‘Walk the talk with your mentor’ Acetech Mumbai, 11 November 2016 (Workshop)
• ACARA 2016, PVP College of Architecture, Pune, 6 August 2016 (Juror)
• ‘Producing Images, Consuming Images’, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 21 Feb 2016 (Lecture)
• ‘Cinema and the City’, City Scripts Festival, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, 20 Feb 2016 (Panel Discussion)
• ‘Alternate Approaches in Teaching: Design of Architecture Theory’, Conductor, NIASA Faculty Induction Programme, Quadrant 2017, Anjuman-e-Islam School of Architecture, new Bombay, 6th Jan 2016 (Lecture)
• ‘Representing this City’, Studio X, Mumbai 8th October 2015 (Lecture)
• ‘Issues in Architectural Education’, Jaipur Architecture Festival, 29-31 January, 2015 (Lecture)
• ‘Song and Dance of the City: My Village’, The Hindu LitforLife Literature Festival, 16 January 2015 (Lecture)
• ‘Modernity and the KRVIA’; Kamla Raheja Memorial Lecture Series, KRVIA, Mumbai; 22 December 2014 (Lecture)
• ‘Dharavi in different descriptive systems’, ‘Catalytic Commons’, University of Leeds at studio X, Mumbai, 21 November 2014 (Lecture)
• ‘Rethinking Urban Planning in India’, Panel Discussion, YSIC (Young Social Innovators Conference 2014), Narottam Sekhsaria Foundation, at Sir JJ College, Mumbai, 11th October 2014 (Lecture)
• ‘National Museum of Architecture’ held by Council of Architecture, at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 27th September 2014 (Workshop)
• ‘Producing Images / Consuming Images’ – Urban Lens Film Festival, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore; 28th September 2014 (Lecture)
• ‘Concerns on Making a Theory of Design Course’, Seminar of Architectural Theory, at Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, 2nd August, 2014 (Lecture)
• ‘7 Dialectical concerns on the making of an architect’, Architects Retreat, organised by SPADE India, 22 October 2014 (Lecture)
• Book Release of ‘PROJECT CINEMA CITY, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai. 11th Jan 2014 (Panel Discussion)
• Indian Institute of Interior Designer Awards 2014, Mumbai, January 2014 (Juror)
• ‘Education and Practice’, Indian Institute of Architects National Conference, Chennai, 28th December 2013 (Panel Discussion)
• ‘Architecture as contemporary History’, Moderator, KRVIA, 23rd December 2013 (Panel Discussion)
• ‘The Discovery of Architecture – A contemporary treatise on ancient values and indigenous reality’ by M.N Ashish Ganju and Narendra Dengle 2012 (Workshop)
• ‘Mumbai- An Introduction to the forces that shape the city’, for the Guggenheim Lab, Mumbai. 2012 (Lecture)
• ‘Dharavi: A Love Story’- Presentation at the BMW Guggenheim Lab Mumbai, ’Meet in the Middle’; 16 December 2012 (Lecture)
• ‘Introduction to Mumbai’; to students of Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, October 2012 (Lecture)
• ‘Cinema City’ at the book release of ‘dates.sites’, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 8 October 2012 (Lecture)
• ‘Cinema City’ ; Presentation at the Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi 12 September 2012 (Lecture)
• ‘Fishing Villages of Mumbai – Innovation for Urban Problems’, TEDx Talk at Dutch DFA, Mumbai (with Rupali Gupte, 27 June 2012 (Lecture)
• ‘Unprepared City,’ Workshop with Droog Design, Netherlands; Studio X Mumbai, November 2011 (Lecture)
• ‘Unplannable Cities’, Studio X, Mumbai, September 2011 (Lecture)
• ‘City and Cinema Relationships’, FTII Pune, 2011 (Lecture)
• ‘Suburban Bliss’, Urban Re-imagination conference, Godrej India Culture Lab, Vikhroli, January 15th 2011 (Lecture)
• ‘Dharavi in different representational systems’; Stop or go  the social dynamics of urban movement, Winter Institute 13th -17th December 2010, TISS, Mumbai with the Max Planck Institute (Symposium)
• ‘City Narratives in Architecture and Urbanism’, Cinema City Course, July 2010 (Lecture)
• ‘Mumbai – An Introduction’- Mumbai Studio, Yale University 2010 (Lecture)
• ‘Cinema City Launch’ New Delhi (Persistence Resistance 2009); (Lecture)
• ‘Prosthetic Homes, House and Housing’ KRVIA, Mumbai December 2008 (Lecture)
• ‘Building Bridges’, Moderator of Discussion for Art India, 2008 (Panel Discussion)
• ‘Rethinking Architectural Education’, Conference in Nagpur conducted by the Council of Architecture, 2008 (Workshop)
• ‘Snapshots from a transforming City’, Paper presented at ‘Emerging Urbanism’ – Conference, CRIT-SARAI; December 2006 (Lecture)
• ‘Workshop on Architectural Education’, Feb 13-14,, Council of Architecture and CEPT, Ahmedabad, 2006 (Workshop)

Webinars, Online Conferences, Seminars

• Discussion with Amshu Chukki on ‘Different Danny and Other Stories, Chatterjee and Lal Gallery, 24 May 2022
• Bombay Hustle – Discussion with Debashree Mukherjee, Urban Lens Festival, Indian Institute of Human Settlements, 20 November 2020
• The Future of Cities- Beyond Architecture, CreativeDays Short Film 2021, YouTube Premiered 20 July 2021, 
• Architecture Films Pedagogy, Podcast, Broadcast: Interrupted, May 22, 2021
• ‘Navigating the grid in the “world-class city”: poverty, gender, and access to services in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, British Association for South Asian Studies, 20 April 2021
• Representing Resilience’, Contemporary Perspectives on Resilience, KRVIA+Breucom- Webinar Series, 3 Nov 2020
• ‘Experiments in designing a course for an architecture for India’ – Escola da Cidade, Sao Paolo, 17 Oct 2020
• ’The New Intimacy’ Dutch Design Week, 17 October 2020
• ‘Making Meaning- Mediums and Messages’, IIID Faculty Development Programme, 27 Sep 2020
• The Work from Home Paradigm : It’s impact on the dwelling unit, the neighbourhood and the city , 12th May, 2020, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal
• Urbanity and Pandemic Times: Emerging Discourses on Urban Form, May 9 2020, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal
• ’Representing Resilience’, ‘Reflecting on Resilience’ KRVIA+Breucom- Webinar Series, 13 July 2020

 

Film Related Work

‘Nostalgia for the Future’ 

Co-Director (with Avijit Mukul Kishore) of film on Indian Modernism and the Home- For Films Division India 2017.

Screenings and Awards

EUROPE

Copenhagen Architecture Festival, 10 October 2021

Architekturmuseum der tum, Munich January 14 2020 (Screening)

AIT Architektursalon, Munich, 29 August 2019 (Screening)

Der Raumjournalist, CreativeDays, Stuttgart, Germany, 17 July 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

AIT Architektursalon, Hamburg, Germany 27 June 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

UK Asian Film Festival 2018, London, 16 March 2018 (Screening)

Documenta 14, Athens; ‘In Post Colonial India: Perceiving Transition’ curated by Shanay Jhaveri, 23 June 2017 (Screening)

CeMIS, University of Göttingen, Germany, ‘Building a Dream World’, 13 June 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

TU Delft, The Netherlands, ‘Housing Standards and Ideals’ 22 July 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

 

USA

Chicago Architecture Biennale, September 19, 2019, through January 5, 2020

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2 October 2019 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director)

University of Pittsburgh, 30 September 2019 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director)

Grey Art Gallery, New York, 26 September 2019 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director)

Barnards College, Columbia University, 26 September 2019 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director)

Williams College, Williamstown, 20 April 2018 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director)

University of Texas, Austin, 18 April 2018 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director) 

Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, 9 Nov 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

University of Santa Barbara, California, 7 November 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2 November 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Harvard University, South Asia Institute, Cambridge MA, 31 October 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

New York University, New York, 30 October 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Brown University, Providence, 26 October 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Columbia University, New York, 25 October 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Cornell University, Ithaca, 24 October 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Princeton University, Princeton, 20 October 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

 

CANADA

University of British Columbia, Robson Square, Vancouver, May 13 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

MEXICO

‘Modernism in India – Through the National Institute of Design’ Nov 2019 – Feb 2020, Guadalajara (Screening)

BANGLADESH

Dhaka Art Fair, 7 FEB 2018 (Screening)

VIETNAM

Moving Reels Festival, Inaugural Film (Screening), Ho Chi Minh City, 4 July 2018

MIDDLE EAST

Mawane, Bahrain, 24 August 2020

Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, 31 October 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

CHINA

OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, 21 November 2020 (Screening and Discussion)

INDIA

TRIVANDRUM

10th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 16-20 June 2017 (Screening)

Awarded the Best Documentary prize in the long documentary category

DELHI

Indian Institute of Interior Designers, 25 September 2020 (Screening and Discussion) 

FD Zone, Delhi, 27 February 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

SPA DELHI, 16 Feb 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

JNU, Arts and Aesthetics Department, 5 Feb 2018 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director)

MCRC, Jamia Milia, 5 February 2018 (Screening and Discussion with Co-Director)

India International Centre, 6 Feb 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

MUMBAI

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, 2 July 2022 (Screening and Discussion)

Aditya College of Architecture, September 22, 2021 (Screening and Discussion)

IES College of Architecture, 5 September 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

School of Environment and Architecture, 13 July 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, 5 July 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

National Museum of Indian Cinema, 22 June 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

Mumbai Connect, The Kollective, 19 January 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

Kala Ghoda Art Festival, 3 February 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

Rachna Sansad College of Architecture, 15 December 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

Godrej India Culture Lab, 28 December 2016 (Screening and Discussion)

FD Zone, Films Division India, 26 May 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Kalaghoda Art Fair at Max Muller Bhavan as part of Urban Design and Architecture Programme, 10 Feb 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, 23 December 2016 (Screening and Discussion)

sP+a Architecture studio, May 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Bharitya VIdyapeeth College of Architecture, 27 July 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Tekton Talks, Pillai College of Architecture, 15 July 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Columbia Global Center, May 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

BANGALORE

MASA, Jasma Devi Bhavan, 17 March 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 20 February 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Bangalore International Center, 11 August 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

PUNE

TIFA Working Studios, 25 May 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

FTII, 3 July 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

FTII, 3 August 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Flame University, 24 August 2019

CHENNAI

Chennai Architecture Foundation, Spaces, 8 April 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

Zonasa, Satyabhama University, 27 September 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

International Documentary and Short Film Festival, 19 April 2018 (Screening)

AHMEDABAD

The Nomad Cafe, Sangath, 13 Jan 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

IDEA INDUS University, 28 September 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

FAAA- Faculty of Architecture Alumni Dialogues, 4 March 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

CEPT, 7 October 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

CEPT, Lilavati Lalbhai Library, 26 July 2019

KOCHI

Signs Film Festival 2017, Jury’s Special Mention, (Screening and Discussion)

THRISSUR

VisionMix Future Orbits, Kochi Biennale, 6-8 Jan 2017 (Screening and Discussion)

SURAT

Auro University, 25 September 2020, (Screening and Discussion)

Tapi Utsav, 25 March 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

Zonasa, Raman Bhakt School of Architecture, 9 September 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

KOLKATA

Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, 31 October 2018 (Screening)

CHANDIGARH

Zonasa, IET Bhaddal, 21 October 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

VIJAYAWADA

National Conference of the Building Informal Urban Communities, Erasmus + Project, February 7, 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

HYDERABAD

International Green Building Council, 27 and 28 November 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

GOA

FRAME Conclave, 16-18 August 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

‘Squeeze Lime in Your Eye’ 

Associate Director

DELHI

Open Frame Festival, 18 September 2018 (Screening with Discussion with Director)

Urban Lens Festival 2018 (Screening with Discussion with Director)

MUMBAI

Bhau Daji Lad Museum, 2 November 2019 (Screening with Discussion with Director)

Urban Lens Festival 2018. 7 December 2018 (Screening and Discussion)

KRVIA Encounter, KRVIA, 23 Jan 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

Lokmanya Tilak institute for Architecture and Design Studies, 24 Jan 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

Kalaghoda Art Festival, Urban Design and Architecture Section, 4th January 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

Chatterjee and Lala, Mumbai, 29 March 2019

BANGALORE

Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 3 July 2019 (Screening with Discussion with Director)

National Convention of NASA 2019. 19 January 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

KOCHI

SEED College of Architecture, 8 December 2020

Kochi Muziris Biennale, 28 January 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

AHMEDABAD

The Nomad Cafe, 2nd January 2019 (Screening and Discussion)

THRISSUR

Signs Festival, Competition Section, 26-30 September 2019 (Screening)

‘Lovely Villa’

as Director

Top 10 Indian Documentaries of the last decade – 2010s by High on Films

UK

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 June 2022

USA

Columbia University, 23 September 2019

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 3 October 2019

MEXICO

‘Modernism in India – Through the National Institute of Design’ Nov 2019 – Feb 2020 (Screening)

DUBAI

Amity University, 4 November 2019 (Screening and discussion)

VIETNAM

The Factory, 12 November 19, Ho Chi Minh City

MUMBAI

Opening Film at the Documentary Film Festival, Sophia College, 28 February 2020  (Screening and discussion)

Opening Film, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, 1 February 2020 (Screening and discussion)

Nine Fish Gallery, 19 January 2020 (Screening and discussion)

Mindscape, Navi Mumbai, 1 January 2020 (Screening and discussion)

Paper Planes, Khar 5 December and 7 December 2019 (Screening and discussion)

IES College of Architecture, 5 September 2019 (Screening and discussion)

Halffry, 30 August 2019 (Screening and discussion)

School of Environment and Architecture, 13 July 2019 (Screening and discussion)

KRVIA Encounter, 10 July 2019 (Screening and discussion)

Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, 5 July 2019 (Screening and discussion)

National Museum of Indian Cinema, 22 June 2019 (Screening and discussion)

Vikalp @ Prithvi, July 2021 (Screening and Discussion)

DHARAMSHALA

Dharamshala International Film Festival October 2020

DELHI

Closing film at ‘Urban Lens Festival’ organised by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Max Mueller Bhavan, 10 November 2019 (Screening and discussion)

Premiere at ‘Open Frame Documentary Film Festival, IIC, 20 September 2019 (Screening and discussion)

SURAT

Uksa Tarsadia University, 12 January 2020 (Screening and discussion)

GOA

Goa College of Architecture 07 December 2019 (Screening and discussion)

FRAME Conclave, 16-18 August 2019 (Screening and discussion)

AHMEDABAD

‘The Nomad Cafe’, 22 February 2020 (Screening and discussion)

CEPT, Lilavati Lalbhai Library, 26 July 2019 (Screening and discussion)

PUNE

Flame University, 24 August 2019 (Screening and discussion with co-director)

BANGALORE

National Association of Students of Architecture, 09 February 2020 (Screening and discussion)

‘Urban Lens Festival’ organised by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Max Mueller Bhavan, 24 September 2019 (Screening and discussion)

Urban Lens Film Festival, 16-20 August 2021 (Screening and Discussion)

GUNTUR

Acharya Nagarjuna University College of Architecture and Planning, 6 October 2019 (Screening and discussion)

HYDERABAD

International Green Building Council, 27 and 28 November 2019 (Screening and discussion)

NASIK

Idea College of Architecture, 7 September 2019 (Screening and discussion)

THRISSUR

Signs Festival, Competition Section, 26-30 September 2019 (Screening)

‘The Shape of a Story’

2019-

Currently in production

 

AS CURATOR

• Co Curator – ‘Art of Film’ at the Delhi Art Fair, in collaboration with the Godrej India Culture Lab, Feb 2017
• Curator – Informal Settlements in Indian Cities ‐ Impulses for Innovation in Architecture and Urban Planning Education, September 2016, Building Inclusive Urban Communities, Erasmus plus Project, Coimbatore. 
• Co Curator – for “Experiments in Film Form” ; JIO MAMI 2015 
• Co Curator – Movies at the Museum- 2015 onwards. A monthly movie screening at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai
• Co-Curator – Geographies of Consumption (Bombay/Mumbai) – a multidisciplinary art project by the Mohile Parikh Centre, Mumbai
• Consultant on many film projects including ‘Vertical City’ by Avijit Mukul Kishore

 

Educational Travel

Study Trips 

with the KRVIA

1st year – Tarkarli 2006

2nd year- Nashik 1999, Srirangam 2000, Bhubaneshwar 2001, Leh 2009, Varanasi 2008, Majuli 2010, Bishnupur 2011, Yuksom 2012, Shillong 2013, Mandu 2014, Allahabad 2014, Bundi 2015, Lucknow 2015, Chakrata 2016

3rd year – Bhopal 2022, Kohima 2019, Braj 2018, Ajmer 2017, Amritsar 2005, Alang 2004, Pen 2009

4th year – Bangalore 2006, Mangalore 2007, Chennai 2011 

Amsterdam and Rotterdam; with the Netherlands Architecture Institute – a 7 day conference on the possibilities of exchange and interaction, November 2009

Amsterdam; with the Dutch DFA, to evolve new interactions between Design Fashion and Architecture disciplines between the two nations. June 2010

Shanghai; with West Heavens- to evolve possibilities of academic and research exchange between Mumbai and Shanghai. June 2011

 

Exchange Programmes 

Guangzhou, 10 day workshop on Video as an urban mapping tool 2010 with Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Shanghai, Mapping housing narratives in Shanghai, with Tongji University, Shanghai, 2012

Vancouver CA, Development around Transit Lines, with University of British Columbia, Vancouver CA 2019