Prasad Shetty is an urbanist based in Mumbai. He has studied architecture (B-Arch, KRVIA, Mumbai University) and urban management (MA-Urban Management, Institute for Housing & Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam, the Netherlands). He is one of the founder members of the School of Environment and Architecture and currently works at the school as Professor and Dean. He is also one of the founder members of the Collective Research Initiative Trust urban research collective, which has been involved in urban research activities on the city of Mumbai. Earlier he has worked with the MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority), MMR - Heritage and Environment Society, Academy of Architecture and Kamla Raheja Institute for Architecture. He has also worked as a consulting urban management expert to the Town Administration of Mendefera, Eritrea; and an expert member to the Dadra–Nagar Haveli Planning & Development Authority. His work involves research and teaching on contemporary Indian urbanism with specific focus on architecture; cultural aspects of urban economy and property; housing; and entrepreneurial practices. He has a wide range of publications, and has exhibited his works / delivered lectures across the world.
Important Works:
Important Works:
- Urban Chronicles (Stories of Entrepreneurship, Ganga Building Chronicles, Bombay Talkies & Other Stories of Malad, Gurgaon Glossaries)
- Housing Studies (Housing Types in Mumbai, Slum Studies)
- Methods & Conceptualisations - (Glossaries, Semi-fictions, Settling, Transactional Capacities, Small Forces)
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2014
Presentation
National Symposium on Inclusive & Equitable Cities, 25 March, 2014: Simplification of Laws & Policy Instruments related to Urban Planning
YUVA, Mumbai
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2014
Presentation
Urban Development and Connectivity, World Sustainable Building Conference 2014: Spatial Dimensions of Connectivity and Mobility
Italian Cultural Center, New Delhi, Venice Biennale
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2014
Article
The core of Conservation
Innowin, Volume 2, Issue 1
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2014
Presentation
Working with Urban Poor, 26-28 Nov 2014: De-mystifying Master Plans
Action Aid in Puri
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2014
Article
Notes on Future
Economic Digest, Vol XLIV No.2/ Maharashtra Economic Development Council
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2014
Presentation
UnBox Festival (with Rupali Gupte): 12-14 Dec 2014- Of Obsessions & Trips & Looking Closely
UnBox Festival, New Delhi
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2014
Article
Interview with Crit
Next Bangalore – Weltstadt Newspaper No.10
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2014
Article
Policy approaches to AFFORDABLE HOUSING IIHS-Rockefeller Urban Policy Partnership in urban India | Problems and Possibilities
Policy Paper, IIHS
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2015
Article
It Takes so Much for a City to Happen
The Social Commons, Citizens in Shade, Aliens in the Sun/ e-flux
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2015
Presentation
Repair and Retrofit / DRAFT, 4-6 June 2015, with Rupali Gupte, CAMP & Khanabadosh
Institute for Contemporary Art Research, IFCAR, Zurich at Studio X, Mumbai
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2015
Presentation
Of trips,Kicks and the City Lived / DRAFT, 4-6 June 2015, in collaboration with Rupali Gupte
Institute for Contemporary Art Research, IFCAR, Zurich and Khanabadosh at Studio X, Mumbai
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2015
Article
The Astrologer’s chair, coauthored with Rupali Gupte
Atlantis, Vol 25 / TU Delft
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2015
Installation at the 56th Venice Art Biennale
Transactional Objects / 56th Venice Biennale, 27 July 2015 in collaboration with Rupali Gupte
Italian Cultural Center, New Delhi
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2015
Presentation
Three Concepts to see the city through, notes from Mumbai
IDEA College of Architecture, Nashik
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2015
Article
Smartness of Cities
Economic Digest, Vol XLIV no. 11 / Maharashtra Economic Development Council
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2015
Lecture
Transactional capacities and other ideas about Mumbai/ Lecture in collaboration with Rupali Gupte: 5 October 2015
Studio X, Mumbai
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2015
Presentation
High Density and Social Justice (with Rupali Gupte: 3-5 Dec
2015): Beyond Densities
Presentation at the Hong Kong Baptist University
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2016
Lecture
Work in Progress: City as a Landscape of Interruptions, India, Art Fair, (31 Jan, 2016)
India Art Fair, New Delhi
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2016
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Cultural Economy and Enabling Environment for Heritage Conservation
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2016
Workshop
Planning Procedures and Housing Workshop
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2016
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Round Table on Housing (20 – 22 June 2016) by Urban Action School: The Housing Question
Action Aid, Mumbai
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2016
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Repair & Retrofit Workshop on Public Art
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2016
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Planning Workshop
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2016
Article
On the Smartness of Streets
Mint-Cities / MINT
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2016
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Heritage Conservation in Mumbai Metropolitan Region
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2016
Workshop
Planning Workshop
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2016
Article
The One Foot Shop
The Social Commons, Citizens in Shade, Aliens in the Sun/ e-flux
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2016
Lecture
Special Lecture (November 3, 2016): Propositions to see Cities
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
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2016
Workshop
Urban Action School Workshop (26 Nov 2016): New Propositions to See cities
Action Aid, Mumbai
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2016
Workshop
Workshop on Landscape Urbanism Lecture Mechanics of Compassion
SEARH TRUST, Kolkata
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2016
Article
The Art of Muddling Through and Beyond: An Interview with Vidyadhar K. Phatak
Urbanisation Vol 1 Issue 2 / Sage
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2016
Case Study
Cases@IIHS: EXPLORING CASE-BASED LEARNING- How do urban policies actually play out in cities?
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2017
Workshop
Planning Workshop
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2017
Presentation
Latento: Considering the Potential of the Contemporary Moment; 3-11 June, 2017- Property & Urban Life
School of Inter-Media Art China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
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2017
Presentation
The Social World, Emerging Practices Design Education and Research, 9/10 Oct, 2017 - Goats, Ghosts and Follies
College of Design & Innovation, Tongi University, Shanghai
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2017
Presentation
The Contemporary Conference 14-16 December 2017: House Loan
SARAI-CSDS and Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
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2017
Presentation
Do Din – 2017 (23-24 Dec. 2017): Informal City & Risk
Hyderabad Urban Lab
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2017
Book Chapter
India Diversity (ed. Hilda David & Francis Jarmen): Spatial Dimensions of property – Notes from Lamington Road
Om Books International
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ISBN-10 : 9386316978 / ISBN-13 : 978-9386316974
2017
Book Chapter
The Contemporary Urban Conundrum (ed. Sujata Patel, Omita Goyal) - Book Chapter : Cities & Smartness
Taylor & Francis Routledge
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ISBN-10 : 036734338X / ISBN-13 : 978-0367343385
2018
Book Chapter
Moravia Manifesto: Coding Strategies for Informal Neighborhoods (ed. Moritz Ahlert / Nina Pawlicki et.al) : The Mechanics of Collaborative Urbanism
Jovis, Berlin
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ISBN 978-3868595352
2018
Book Chapter
Absolute Humidity (ed. Tess Maunder): Interview of Rupali Gupte & Prasad Shetty
Hardworking Goodlooking, New York & Paranaque City
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2018
Exhibition
When is Space: an Exhibition on Contemporary Architecture in India
Jawahar Kala Kendra
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2018
Conference
Bauhaus Imaginista: Moving Away Symposium: Moving Away – Bauhaus Pedagogy, 2 Dec 2018: Notes on Research Based Education
Max Muller Bhavan, Delhi & Bauhaus Imaginista c/o Goethe Institut Berlin
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2018
Lecture
Public Private Partnerships across Urban Sectors (23 Feb 2018)- Emerging Scenarios in Housing
Tata Institute for Social Science, Mumbai
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2018
Lecture
State of Housing (Closing Seminar – 17 March 2018): New Interrogations of the Indian Housing Questions
Urban Design Research Institution, Arch. Foundation (Cama Hall, Mumbai)
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2018
Lecture
City Scripts – 2018 (8-10 March 2018): Multiple Modes of Writing the City Neighbourhoods
Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Delhi
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2018
Presentation
Equipolis Urban Praxis Seminar for ComplexCity (23 March 2018): Spatial Dimensions of Infrastructure
YUVA, Yuva Centre, Navi Mumbai
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2018
Presentation
Architecture – In Search of Indian Identity, Festival of Architecture and Built Env. (24 Mar 2018)-Architecture in India: Rethinking the frameworks
School of Arch. And Interior Design, S.R.M. Institute of Science & Tech, Chennai
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2018
Presentation
Housing the Human (20 July 2018)- Guerrilla Retrofits and Architecture of Continuum
8th Edition of Demanio Marittimo. Km-278 Festival, Marzocca, Senigallia, Italy
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2018
Presentation
Experimenter Curators’ Hub – 2018 (26-28 July 2018): Looking Closely
Experimenter Gallery, Kolkatta
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2018
Article
Of Gheras, Goats, and Ghosts: Awkward Futurities of Incremental Settling
Perspecta 51 Medium (ed. Shayari de Silva, Samantha Jaff & Dante Furioso) / Yale Architectural
Journal & MIT Press
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2018
Presentation
Acts without Efforts – Architecture School and International Forum (20 October 2018): From slums to SEA/ Rethinking the Housing Question
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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2018
Conference
Urban Policy Dialogues 2018; 14/15 November 2018: Panel Discussion Forms/Modes of Urban Practice;Evolving Roles of Public,Private and Non/Profit sector
‘India Update: Minority Positions in a Majoritarian World’ at the South Asia Research Institute of the Australian National University
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