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)
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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)
‘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)
‘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 gothe 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