Faculty
Hiranmayi Shankavaram
Assistant Professor
B.Arch.[VTU], M.Sc.[ Urb.Magnt. & Devpmnt.], Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Hiranmayi Shankavaram is an architecture graduate from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore (2012). She also holds a Master’s degree in Urban Management and Development from the Institute of Housing and Urban Studies (IHS), Rotterdam (2015-16). She worked as an architect at a private architectural firm in Bangalore between 2012 and 2015. During her stint as an assistant professor (2017-2019) at Karpagam Academy of Higher Education (KAHE), Coimbatore, she has been part of a research programme called Building Inclusive Urban Communities (BInUCom) concentrating on the nuances of urban informality. Since 2019, she has been working as an Assistant Professor at R V College of Architecture (RVCA), Bengaluru. As a researcher, she identifies the endless gamut of urban issues, the panacea for which requires efficient, effective, and people-centric initiatives to create conducive environments. She is actively involved as an editor for RVCA’s research based annual magazine Kalpa. She is also a co-founder to the in-house guidance cell for higher education called GlobEd that hosts national and international universities and provides a platform for exchange of information on the Global Prospects for Higher Education in Architecture and its allied disciplines. She also holds the international portfolio bringing in academic collaborations with national and international institutions and think tanks.
Specialisation and interest: Urban management & Development, Urban Planning and strategies, Urban Resilience, Urban Governance
Publications/career highlights
- Investigating neighborhood effects and local embeddedness of a city and their relevance on a migrant’s life. (Co-author Ms. Alisha Sinha). Presented in the International Conference on Future is Urban (ICFU 2021) and published in the book titled Future is Urban: Livability, Resilience and Resource Conservation. The following are its ISBN numbers: ISBN: 978-1-032-37892-3 (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-003-34244-1 (ebk)
- Urban Design as a Spatial assessment tool in Achieving SDG 11: Case of Bengaluru, India. This has been published as a book chapter in the book titled “SDGs in the Asia and Pacific Region, Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.” (Co-authors – Ms. Ramya Krishna, Ms. Jagriti Jhunjhunwala and Ms. Sruti Ramanan). Available at: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-91262-8
- Community resilience: role of community as coping mechanisms in urban transformations. Published in the Scopus indexed journal Urbanism Architectura Constructii (Volume 13 [3] 2022, pg 222 – 234. Available at: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1079678
- Co-authored a Book chapter on “Nothing to be gained by Involving them” – exploring residents’ lived experiences of resettlement in a medium sized city in India to be released in March 2023. (co-authors: Dr. Tania Berger and Ms. Janani Thiagarajan). Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Negotiating-Resilience-with-Hard-and-Soft-City/Singh-Berger-Parmar/p/book/9781032440378#
- Co-authored a paper titled “Physical activity in public space: Insights from a global community of practice applying photovoice as a tool for digital participatory place analysis” under journal Cities and Health, available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23748834.2024.2307739
- Co-authored an article titled “Exploring impacts of resettlement and upgrading on the urban poor’s daily lives in a Second Tier City in India” in journal World Development Perspectives, volume 32 with doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2023.100545 , available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292923000619
- Co-authored a paper titled “” Exploring the role of public spaces in accommodating economic activities during Ashadh Wari in Pandharpur: Case of Chowk, Galli and Ghat”” co-authored available as conference proceeding in the book titled “”FUTURE IS URBAN: Nature Based Solutions, Capacity Building and Urban Resilience””. First published 2024 by Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-032-78443-4 (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-003-48789-0 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003487890.”