Rupali Gupte
Curriculum VitaeEmail Id: rupali@sea.edu.in
Website: https://bardstudio.in/
Instagram: @bardstudio
Rupali Gupte is an architect, artist and urbanist based in Mumbai. She is a co-founder of and director and Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), and a partner at BardStudio. She has recently been a senior Research fellow at the University of Brighton. Her work involves extensive research on contemporary South Asian architecture and urbanism with a focus on housing and urban form, tactical spatial practices, and the role of gender in shaping habitation. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms - writings, drawings, mixed-media works, installations, curation, conversations, walks and spatial interventions. Her works have been shown nationally and internationally in biennales including the 56th Venice Art Biennale, X Sao Paolo Biennale of Art and Architecture, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, Dhaka Art Summit, and galleries and museums such as MACBA Barcelona, MAAT Museum Lisbon, Mumbai Art Room, Devi Art Foundation, Project 88 and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
She has been on numerous juries and has lectured widely across the world.
She has been on numerous juries and has lectured widely across the world.
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Type
Title of the book/ Chapters published/ Title of the Programme
Title of Publication/ Book & Institute / Organisation/ Publisher
Link to work
ISBN number of the proceeding
2015
Presentation
Of trips,Kicks and the City Lived / DRAFT, 4-6 June 2015, in collaboration with Prasad Shetty
Institute for Contemporary Art Research, IFCAR, Zurich and Khanabadosh at Studio X, Mumbai
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2015
Exhibition Installation at the 56th Venice Art Biennale
Transactional Objects / 56th Venice Biennale, 27 July 2015 in collaboration with Prasad Shetty
Italian Cultural Center, New Delhi, Venice Biennale
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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
Article
The Astrologer’s chair, coauthored with Prasad Shetty
Atlantis, Vol 25 / TU Delft
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2015
Article
Smartness of Cities
Economic Digest, Vol XLIV no. 11 / Maharashtra Economic Development Council
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2015
Presentation
Three Concepts to see the city through, notes from Mumbai
Studio X
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2015
Interview
Interview as One of the Five Architectural
Urban practices in the city of Mumbai for an exhibition at Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
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2015
Presentation
High Density and Social Justice (with Prasad Shetty: 3-5 Dec 2015)
Presentation at the Hong Kong Baptist University
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2015
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Researching the City, New Pedagogical Processes
Aformal Academy at the Schenzhen Hong Kong Biennale
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2015
Article
Reworked Modernities: housing productions in Modern India
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2016
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Urban Life and the Working Poor
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2016
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Gardens Built and Unbuilt
R and R, Mankhurd
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2016
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Mapping the New Commons
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2016
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Asian Urbanism Symposium
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2016
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Public Realm
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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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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
2017
Conference
Power, Public Culture and Identity:Towards New Histories of Mumbai
University of Mumbai
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2017
Conference
Climate Vulnerability in South Asias Coastal Cities: Mumbai Coastal Work Ecologies
University of Georgetown, Doha
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2017
Talk
Philosophy of Space: Poetics of Space
Kochi Biennale
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2017
Talk
Hangar Talks: Thinking Through Exhibition Design
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
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2017
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Urban form and Public Health
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
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2017
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What time is it Technologies of the Future
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
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2017
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SEARCH Workshop 16, Landscape Urbanism, Kolkatta
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
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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
Exhibition
New Approaches to Retro fittings in conversation with Vikas Dilawari
The Death of Architecture exhibition
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2018
Exhibition
Transactional Objects
Project 88, 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
Panel discussion
Panel discussion, Outlawed, Bye Laws and the State of Architecture
the Death of Architecture exhibition in Pune
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2018
Conference
Towards a Participatory City
'Together, how to make the city of tomorrow’ at the We Make the City festival in Amsterdam
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2018
Exhibition
Belly of the Strange’, an architectural installation as a transactional space for reading in MACBA, Barcelona
‘In the Open or In Stealth’ curated by the Raqs Media Collective
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2018
Conference
Frothing Urbanism
‘India Update: Minority Positions in a Majoritarian World’ at the South Asia Research Institute of the Australian National University
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2019
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Architecture of Transactional Capacities
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2019
Jury
Beyond the Given What
Organising for Critical Pedagogy, Practice and Institution Building in Architecture, Calicut
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2019
Jury
Jury member for Mumbai Street Lab organised by MCGM and WRI
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2019
Jury
Jury for Mumbai Streets project
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai in collaboration with World Research Institute
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2020
Book Chapter
First Questions (ed. Prasad Shetty): Design as Method
SEA PRESS
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ISBN-10 : 8194501601 ISBN-13 : 978-8194501602
2020
Jury
Jury for the Art Project Five Million Incidents, Goethe Institute, New Delhi for selection and mentoring of artists
Goethe Institute, New Delhi
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2020
Public Talk
Architecture in an Expanded Field, Lecture delivered at Women in Design Conference
HECAR Foundation
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2020
Public Talk
Towards an expanded architectural practice
Lecture delivered at Women in Design Conference
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2020
Public Talk
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Lecture delivered at G5A, as part of the discussions on the Central Vista, New Delhi
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2020
Symposium
Songs of Turbulence, Conversation wiuth Juan Du on "Speculations on Emerging Urban Society'
School of Environment and Architecture
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2020
Public Talk
When is Space, Six Concepts, Lecture delivered for a course on art history and curatorial practice
Jnanapravaha, Mumbai
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2020
Jury
Jury and Curator for UnBuilt 2.0 ‘Architecture of Future Collectives’, setting up curatorial brief and selecting projects for publication
ArchitectureLive
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2020
Public Talk
Urban Form and the Pandemic (lecture delivered at a Webinar)
SPA, Bhopal
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2020
Public Talk
Urban Informality, Altering Epistemes, lectured delivered at a Webinar
SEARCH Trust, Kolkata
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2020
Public Talk
Making Home, Lecture delivered at the Lecture Series Housing, Shortage, Affordability and Informality
Technical University, Vienna, a module of the project Living 2060
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2020
Jury
Jury for Post Pandemic Performance , selecting winning projects.
Sorted Pandit
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2020
Jury
Urban Form, Three Concepts
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai in collaboration with World Research Institute
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2020
Public Talk
Jury for Mumbai Streets project
CEPT, Ahmedabad
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2020
Jury
Jury for an Urban Design Competition for the OAN Grants programme
OAN Network USA and Urban Design Collective, India
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2020
Public Talk
Ever Changing City
Poche Conversations
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2020
Public Talk
Transactional Capacities and Glossary as Method for the Symposium, “Glossary of the Street’
Megawra al-Khalifa and Merve Bedir from Aformal Academy and Land and Civilisation Compositions
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2020
Public Talk
Architecture and the Future of Cities
Symposium, ‘Future of Cities’, Hospitolhoff, Stuttgart
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2020
Public Talk
Glossaries as Method
Southern Urbanism Network organised by Columbia University
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2021
Book Chapter
Bombay Brokers, edited by Lisa Bjorkman: Chadda: Report Maker
Duke University Press, Durham, London
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ISBN 9781478010531
2021
Book Chapter
Expansions, the Companion book of the 17th Venice Biennale, curated by Hashim Sarkis: Smudged Spaces
17th Venice Biennale
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ISBN-10. 8836648614.
2021
Invited Lecture
Housing in Mumbai: Policies, Programmes and Lived Realities
Housing For Everyone, Affordable Living, Project Living 2060, Vienna.
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2021
Public Talk
Housing in Mumbai, Programmes and Policies and Lived Realities, lecture delivered at the Webinar Housing For Everyone Affordable Living’
Technical University, Vienna, a module of the project Living 2060
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2021
Installation
Itinerant Desires’ an architectural installation
MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) in Lisbon as part of the exhibition ‘X is Not a Small Country, Unravelling the Post Global Era’.
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2021
Book Chapter
Smudged Spaces For Expansions, the Companion book of the 17th Venice Biennale, curated by Hashim Sarkis
Venice Biennale
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2021
Invited Lecture
Glossary as Method, Archiving the Contemporary for Design Archives in Asia
Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton
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2021
Invited Lecture
Generative Dialogue # 7
Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale
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2021
Invited Lecture
Dialogues on the Post Global, A discussion as a part of ‘X is not a Small Country, Unravelling the Post Global Era’
MAAT Museum, Lisbon
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2021
Invited Panelist
Sensing the City, as a part of conference organised by Abdoumaliq Simone and Michele Lancione.
RC 21 Conference, Antwerp
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2021
Co-presentation
Covid Glossary presentation
PAMPA Literature Festival
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2021
Invited Panelist
Missing Pavilions, Political Space of Representation,
E-Flux Architecture as part of Venice Biennale 2021
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2021
Invited Panelist
Education and Climate Change, Strelka Institute, Moscow
Strelka Institute, Moscow
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2021
Workshop conducted
Small Forces
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
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2021
Workshop conducted
Covid Glossary, as part of Smarter Digital Realities
Harkat Studios, Sandbox Collective and Goethe Institute, Mumbai
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2021
Invited Lecture
Architecture of Transactional Capacities, juror and guest lecturer at the competition organised by Drawing Board, Rohan Builders
Drawing Board, Rohan Builders
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2021
Invited Lecture
Architecture of Exhibitions, Exhibition of Architecture
Curatorial Intensive South Asia, Khoj
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2021
Invited Lecture
Air and the City
Anant National University
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2021
Invited Panelist
Affordable & Sustainable Housing, Towards a Smart Design Architecture" with Bijoy Ramchandran and Suparna Bhalla
TeamWork Arts, New Delhi
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2021
Invited Lecture
Small Forces at the Cultures in Conversation as part of Urban and Development Week
Expo 2020, Dubai
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2021
Workshop conducted
Concepts of Space, Urban Form, as part of the Aesthetics, Criticism and Theory course at Jnanapravaha
Jnanapravaha, Mumbai
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2021
Invited Panelist
‘Learning from the Aga Khan Award for Architecture'
Bengal Institute
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2021
Podcast
Urban Form and Practice with Broadcast Interrupted
Broadcast interrupted
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2021
Invited Lecture
How Will We Live Together? Reimagining Redistribution: Land, People, Environment: Notes from Mumbai, at the Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Hong Kong Institute of Architects
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2021
Invited Panelist
Panel Discussion for the release of the book ‘UnBuilt Archittecture’ by ArchitectureLive
ArchitectureLive
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2021
Invited Panelist
Post Institutional Spaces, for Emerging hybrid design practices in India organised by Digital Futures
DigitalFutures
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2022
Book Chapter
Gender and the Indian City:Revisioning Design and Planning Edited by Madhavi Desai, Book Chapter: Women's Practices of Homemaking, Beyond Policies and Programmes
South Asia Press, New Delhi
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ISBN : 9788195020485
2022
Web Publication
Bard Studio’s work published as one of the contemporary practices in India documented as part of the Praxis series
Think Matter
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2022
Invited Panelist
Intuition as Method / The (il) Logic of Beauty in response to the work of Samira Rathod
Chemould Art Galleryt
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2022
Invited Lecture
‘Two talks and a Conversation’.
Bengal Institute
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2022
Invited Lecture
Architecture of Transactional Capacities
SEDA, Navrachna University
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2022
Keynote Lecture
Of Corrosions, Continuums, Refractions, Seepages and Entanglements, 3rd Takshila Keynote lecture on Architecture and Society Delivered at Arthshila,. Ahmedabad
Think Matter and Takshila Education Society
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2022
Invited Panelist
Architecture a Form of Knowledge
IIA Calicut Capter
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2022
Invited Panelist
Book launch of Gender and the Indian City, Revisioning Design and Planning edited by Madhavi Desai
South Asia Press
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2022
Course
Research Methods Course conducted at Aditya College of Architecture as part of teacher Training Programme
School of Environment and Architecture
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2022
Journal article
Small Forces, paper published in Public Culture edited by Abdoumaliq Simone, Vyjayanti Rao, Keller Easterling
Public Culture Vol 34, No.3, September 2022
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2022
Journal article
Popular Economy, paper co-wriiten with a Southern Urban Collective, pubished in Public Culture edited by Abdoumaliq Simone, Vyjayanti Rao, Keller Easterling
Duke University Press
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2022
Workshop
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: Research on Ecology of Architectural Education in India, TESF conference
IIHS, Bangalore
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2023
Exhibition
Belly of the Strange 2.0, a library space at the Dhaka Art
Dhaka Art Summit as part of the exhibition ‘Very Small Feelings’
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2023
Exhibition
Belly of the Strange 3.0, architectural installation
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
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2023
Talk
Very Small Feelings: Question of Form, Artist Talk
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
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2023
Workshop
Very Small Feelings: Inhabitations Workshop conducted
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
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2023
Talk, Workshop
Decoding Architectural Intelligence, Teacher Training Programme: Emerging Contexts, Architectural Pedagogy
BMS Architecture College, Bangalore
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2023
Conference
The Next Monsoon Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia : Of Disintegrations, Immersions, Scattering, Shifting and Flowing, Towards a Pedagogy of Life’
Cornell University, NY
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2023
Exhibition
Samatva, Indian Art and Architecture Biennale: Portfolio of Works
Government of India
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2023
Journal Article
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 00, 1–14.: Land, property, and territory: Mutual embeddedness as understood by the tongbian philosophy.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers - WILEY - TIBG
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2023
Symposium
Architecture of Thickets, A symposium on Architectural Research: Of Disintegrations, Immersions, Scattering, Shifting and Flowing: Towards a Pedagogy of Life
School of Environment and Architecture
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2023
Book Review
BookReview:Grammars of the Urban Ground edited by Ash Amin and Michele Lancione - Beyond Lexicons
Dialogues in Urban Research, Sage
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2023
Workshop
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures: Research on Ecology of Architectural Education in India, TESF conference
IIHS, Bangalore
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2023
Panel Discussion
Living Room Conversations between Madhavi Desai and Rupali Gupte in conversation with Komal Pande
Samatva, Indian Art and Architecture Biennale, Government of India
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2023
Jury Member for Competition
AVANI Essay Prize
AVANI Institute of Design
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2023
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Invited Paper Review
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2024
Workshop
Improbable Territories, Improbable Times: How to Inhabit Differently?: Architecure of Popular Economies
CIDES - UMSA and the Urban Popular Economies Collective in La Paz,Bolivia
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2024
Exhibition (Co-curation)
Fabulations, A ten year retrospective exhibition of SEA
School of Environment and Architecture
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2024
Moderated discusison with Sandeep Virmani, Hunarshala
Devising Architecture amidst entanglements- A New Home fo Ajiri: On Humanising Architecture
School of Environment and Architecture
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2024
Conference
The World After the Pandemic- Covid Glossary: An experiment in collective thinking on pandemic and spatiality
ICAS-MP Cross Modular Conference, Centre For Study of Developing Societies (CSDS, New Delhi)
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2024
Public Review (Juror)
Housing Reviews
Hong Kong University
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2024
Public Review (Juror)
Oasis, A Social Plug-In for Institute of Palliative Medicine
Indian Institute of Architects, Kerala Chapter
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2024
Public Lecture
Oasis, A Social Plug-In for Institute of Palliative Medicine- Questions of Form
Indian Institute of Architects, Kerala Chapter
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2024
Expert Proposal Assessment
Faculty Development Programme, Hong Kong, Proposal Assessment
Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, SAR China
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2024
Workshop
Comparative Global South Urbanisms- From House to Home, Towards a Relational Politics of Inhabitation
Shehr Network, American University of Cairo
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2024
Exhibition
'Waiting Room'- Being Nicely Messy
'Youth on the Move: Performing Urban Space in the Global South, curated by Ying Cheng, Min Tang, Anuj Daga,at Surabaya, Indonesia
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2024
Workshop
Capture/Connect/Shift, Infrastructure, Blackness and Racial Capital - Housing Financialisation, Racial Capitalism and Stories of Inhabitation in Mumbai in and beyond Capture
Journal of Cultural Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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2024
Journal Article
Radical Homemaking in Mumbai, India and Brighton, United kingdom: rearticulating design and policy in housing
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
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2024
Workshop
Building Gender Perspectives on Social-Ecological Transfornmations: Notes from Mumbai
FES (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) Foundation
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2024
Workshop
Amidst Owls, Torpedos & Serpents: Pedagogical Experiments at the School of Environment and Architecture
Independent Artists Collective, IIC, Delhi
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2024
Reading group dissusion as part of the Alserkal Foundation Selection Committtee member including Studio visits, Selection Process
Alserkal Foundation Artist Residencies and Research Grants: Of Ghosts, Ghouls and Motley Formations
Alserkal Foundation, Dubai
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2024
Blind Peer Review
Peer Review : Blind Process
Urbanisation Journal, Sage Publication
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2024
Conference
The Biopolitics of Global health- Covid Glossary: An experiment in collective thinking on pandemic and spatiality
Shiv Nadar University
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2025
Competition
Housing Repair and Retrofit: Pedagogy and Practice- COA Awards
Competition entry for Council of Architecture (First Prize)
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2025
Magazine Article
An Archive of South Asian Architecture and Urbanism: Shared Histories, Common Values
LA Journal
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2025
Book Chapter
What is an Institution?- Soft Forms
SEA Press
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8194501687
2025
Exhibition
Fabulations - Co-curation
School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai
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2025
Conference
How do We Grow Together: New Pedagogies
School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai
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2025
Conference
Urban Futures Workshop: From House to Home, Towards a Relational Politics of Inhabitation
ICAS-MP + Max Planck Institute
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2025
Art Talk
Where Should the Birds Fly After the last Sky: Art Talks with Prajakta Potnis
Project 88, Mumbai
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2025
Book Chapter
Kromosho: The Dermosonic Machine
Nokt, Dhaka
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2025
Workshop
The Future of Community- Avani Teaching Learning Symposium
Avani Institue of Design
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2025
Workshop
Hunnarshala Workshop: Habitation Design
Designing Spaces, the Data Gap, Housing Crisis in India and the U.K.
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2025
Book Chapter
Feminist Practices and the Architectures of Care: Abundance not Capital, the Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo edited by Angelika Fritz,Elke Krasny, Architekturzentrum
MIT Press
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2025
Panel Discussion
Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice: Virtual Roundtable
India Art and Design Magazine
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2025
Installation
I am a dancer made of Song- Installation for Prime by Avantika Bahl
at IFBE, Mumbai
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2025
Worshop conducted
The Quirky Dimensions of Space: Companion workshop to the exhibition of Ekhart Muthesius and Manik Baug, Pioneering Modernism in India
Bhau Daji Lad Museum
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2025
Conference
Spatial Interegnums: An Urban Interegnum, New Vocabulaories and Formations of Collective Life from the Global South
Curated by Gautam Bhan, Teresa Caldiera, Edgar Pieterse, Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona
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2025
Installation
I am a dancer made of Song- Installation for Prime by Avantika Bahl
NCPA, Mumbai
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2025
Conference
Poetically and Politically the Body Dwells- Design Foundation for the New Age
Talk at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
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2025
Workshop curation
Architecture Otherwise- Sharjah Architecture Triennale
Mumbai Off-site
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2025
Journal Article
Urbanisation: The Impossibility of Bringing About Spatial Justice in Indian Architectural Academia
Sage
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