Prasad Shetty

Prasad Shetty currently teaches at the School of Environment & Architecture (SEA) and works with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region – Environment Improvement & Heritage Conservation Society. His work involves research and teaching on contemporary Indian urbanism including architectural practices, studies of post-industrial landscapes, housing types, archiving post liberalization developments, entrepreneurial practices and urban property. He has also written about and initiated/undertaken several projects and programmes in the areas of urban development.

He has lectured at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture; an Independent Fellow at the SARAI-CSDS, Delhi; is a consulting urban management expert to the Town Administration of Mendefera, Eritrea; and is an expert member to the Dadra–Nagar Haveli Planning and Development Authority.

His recent works include: De-Mapping: an installation emerging from the hyper-mapping tendencies of urban study practices (supported by Khoj, Delhi); Bombay Talkies and Other Stories of Malad: a research on the land politics in the suburb of Mumbai (supported by Majlis, Mumbai); Being Nicely Messy: a research on projecting future mobility of Mumbai (supported by the Audi Urban Futures Initiative); and Gurgaon Glossaries: compiling the terms that are getting formed when the new city of Gurgaon is settling (supported by SARAI, Delhi & the Devi Art Foundation).

Prasad Shetty studied architecture at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA), University of Mumbai, India, and urban management at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies, IHS, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.