We invite you to participate in this crowdsourced research initiative which aims to identify pastoral communities of Bengaluru, document their relationships with the city, trace their grazing routes, map their history, find their connections with other communities in farming and livestock breeding, and develop narratives about the evolving relationship between the land, animals, ...

The popular narrative of India’s twentieth century architectural history is largely articulated around the contributions of male architects and engineers. There is very little documentation and dissemination about the contributions made by first-generation women architects or other female practitioners of the country. Existing narratives about Indian architectural history are also influenced by geographical and sociopolitical boundaries. This project traces the journeys of women practitioners from twentieth century India and maps their architectural contributions as significant landmarks in the larger narrative of India’s architectural history.  

Lighting talk titled and paper publication at the research symposium on Gender and Academic Leadership in Architecture in India, hosted by Avani Institute of Design, Calicut.

Paper presentation at the XVII International Forum on World Heritage and Legacy, Naples 

Oral presentation at XIXTH International Oral History Conference, Bengaluru convened by the Oral History Association (OHAI) of India. The proposed ideas emerged from the recording practices explored at CEPT Archives during the Oral History Project. In a span of almost three years, stories were collected from twenty different practitioners across the built environment agency in India. 

Assistant to Director of Collections for the summer exhibition and publication, at Royal Institute of British Architects (UK), this exercise dealth with research and writing texts for selected projects designed by the architect.