Rupali Gupte

Co-Founder and Director

School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai

Speaker Biography

Rupali Gupte is an architect, urbanist and artist based in Mumbai. She is co-founder of the School of
Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in) and Director at the institute. She is a partner at Bard Studio,
Mumbai (bardstudio.in) along with her partner Prasad Shetty. She has a post graduate degree from Cornell
University and has recently been a senior research fellow at the University of Brighton, U.K. Her research into
South Asian architecture and urbanism focuses on urban culture, housing, urban form, repair, gender and
space. Her work has been shown at biennales and museums, and she has presented at several conferences,
workshops and panels across the world. She has published articles in journals like Public Culture, Cultural
Anthropology and the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment and has a forthcoming co-edited book
‘Climate Change and Cultural Practices in South Asia’ published by Routledge Series on the Indian Ocean
and Trans-Asia.

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