SHRUTHI

RAMESH

URBAN DESIGNER | ARCHITECT ​INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER

Email: ar.shruthiramesh@gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/shruthi-​ramesh-urban-designer

Research Gate: ​https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shruthi-Ramesh-3

Academia.edu: ​https://cept.academia.edu/ShruthiRamesh

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https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?​user=K39Ufv0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

OrcID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3638-8514

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RESEARCH

IMPORTANT LINKS

FELLOWSHIPS (Recent)

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FELLOW, WRITING URBAN INDIA FELLOWSHIP, 2023 ​(WUI 2.0) FEBRUARY 2023 - DECEMBER 2023


Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi x Writing ​Urban India Collective x Urban Studies Foundation (USF)

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https://cprindia.org/writing-urban-india-fellowship-​candidates/

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https://www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/gran​tees/writing-urban-india-fellowship/

Under the mentorship of Dr.J.Devika, Professor at Centre for Development ​Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, I developed a writing output for my original ​research project titled “The Production of the Malayali Dream: the ​emergence of single-family homes as the dominant spatial imaginary”, an ​exploration of the historio-social conditions that led to the proliferation of ​the single-family house type in Kerala.

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PUBLICATIONS

PUBLISHED WORK

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BOOK CHAPTER PUBLISHED IN GEOGRAPHIES OF THE ​ANTHROPOCENE -EDITED VOLUME, May 2024.

“Contestations to a Climate-sensitive heritage: Examining the Negotiations ​of Cultural Markers along Mumbai’s expanding Metropolitan Coast” in the ​edited volume “Climate change related urban transformation and the role of ​cultural heritage” eds. Matthias Ripp and Christer Gustafsson, in the open ​access peer-reviewed book series "Geographies of the Anthropocene" ​Volume 6 No. 2 Dec 2023 (May 2024), published by Il Sileno Edizioni, Italy ​(International Scientific Publisher). ISSN: ISSN 2611-3171

ISBN 979-12-80064-58-5

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JOURNAL ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN CIDADES JOURNAL -​December 2023

"Contentions of affordability in the habitat planning of a new town: A case ​of Navi Mumbai, India" published Open Access in Volume 47 (December 202​3) of the Urban Studies journal (Q3)- Cidades: Comunidades e Território​s (Cities: Communities and Territories), ​Portugal.

DOI - https://doi.org/10.15847​/cct.30054

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ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE HARVARD URBAN REVIEW, ​September 2022

“Geographies of Incineration: The (In)visible Aides of the Tenebrous Urban ​Networks” in Spring 2022 issue themed "OVERLOOKED" of The Harvard ​Urban Review Journal.

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TOP 13 Finalist of the CEPT Essay Prize 2021 (22) October 2022

Essay "Colour As Embellishment: The Transforming Culture of Aesthetics in ​the Realms of the Urban Poor" Published by CEPT University Press

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ISBN: 978-93-83184-64-4

CONTRIBUTOR TO BOOK - DOCUMENTING SERAMPORE ​February 2023

Conservation linked Documentation of Sha Bari - Serampore undertaken as ​student at CEPT University is now published in book “Documenting ​Serampore” published by CEPT University Press- Folio Series

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ISBN: 978-93-83184-68-2

ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON ACEDGE -October 2022

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"Kéré: The new Archetype of the Socially-conscious Architect" on the ​Theme Social Responsibility of Architect on Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré ​- A product of Writing/s for Architecture Course by Ar. Apurva Bose Dutta

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ARTICLE PUBLISHED FOR THE KERALA MUSEUM, September 2022

Three Slices from Praxis : Collaboration, Co-production, Confluence - ​Article on the life and works of Prof. K.T Ravindran

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HONORABLE MENTION - SAFETIPIN ESSAY PRIZE, November 2021

"Queering in Kerala: Culture and Contest" Published in the SAFETIPIN Blog

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ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN CITY OBSERVER, UDC, JUNE 2021

"Narrating the Indian City: Experiencing the city through its stories" in the ​CITY TRAILS section.

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EVENTS

Conferences and workshops

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SELECTED FOR URBAN ACTION SCHOOL (UAS 2023), ​November 2023

One Week Course for Urban Practitioners and Policy Makers - Hosted at ​KILA, Thrissur. Organized by ActionAid India x Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung ​(RLS) x KILA .

Theme : Unpacking the Urban-Rural Continuum : Towards Sustainable ​Future for all.


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PRESENTED PAPER AT FCA NATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ​APRIL 2023, AHMEDABAD

“The Danger of Homogenisation - Monoliths, Invisibilisation and other ​Perceptions”. Theoretical Paper, Presented at the National Colloquium of ​the Feminist Collective in Architecture (FCA).

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PAPER PRESENTED ICOM-CAMOC INTERNATIONAL ​CONFERENCE, BARCELONA, December 2021

Curating Informalities: Syncretism of Social Innovation in the City ​Museum”, Mumbai

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ISBN: 978-2-491997-74-8

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CEPT NEWS Feature on the CAMOC Conference

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RESEARCH PRESENTED AT SMET -METROPOLITAN ​TOURISM WORKSHOP, LONDON,(ONLINE) JANUARY ​2022

For Forthcoming Book Chapter - Tourism and/in the Metropolis

On tourism in Mumbai Metropolis.

An exploration of Mumbai’s Subaltern Tourist front and Tourism ​Resilience in the background of Mumbai’s intense spatial ​transformations​.

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GRANTS & ​AWARDS

PAPER PRESENTED AT BLURRED BOUNDARIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PUNE, September 2021

Politics of Gender, Democracy and Public Space: Anlysing the Gendered ​Socio-spatial production of urban beaches in Kanuury and Mumbai

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ISBN 978-93-5473-568-4

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FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS (PAST)

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ANUBHAV LECTURE SERIES SOUTH ASIA FELLOW

MAY -JULY 2022

Harris School of Public Policy at University of Chicago and ​Indian School of Public Policy, New Delhi, hosted by ​UChicago Centre, New Delhi

A Public policy fellowship with multi-disciplinary input lectures.

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SHORTLISTED FOR SAINT GOBAIN GRANT 2021-22, ​February 2022

Loiterer's sanctuary - Creating an Inclusive and Convivial Space for Women

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ACADEMIA

TEACHING PORTFOLIO


(Work of 3rd year students of NITC)

DOCUMENTATION WORK - ADFT V STUDIO,

NIT CALICUT, 2019

Documentation of Vernacular Settlement in Himachal Pradesh

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ACADEMIC WORK

M.Arch (UD, HTC) CEPT University, India

B.Arch (GEC Thrissur) University of Calicut, India

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CEPT FA PG THESIS 2018

"Re-imagining Vytilla as a mixed use transit oriented district for Kochi" ​guided by Narendra Mangwani

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historiographic timeline of ahmedabad, 2017

Contemporary Architectural Historiographies

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PORTFOLIO

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key texts blog, 2017

Blog for course "Key Texts in Literature"

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cept winter school, december 2016

Live Documentation Project - The Serampore Initiative

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CEPT fa pg m.aRCH OFFICIAL STUDIO PORT​FOLIO​ 2016-2018

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