An article titled Emergence of Landscape Urbanism by Shantesh Kelvekar was published in City Observer's maiden issue. Urban Design Collective started its e-publication to bring collective research on the subject with under the banner of City Observer in June 2015. The article highlighted the current issues and challenges in urban development across developing economies, and presented a point of view from the frame of Landscape Urbanism as a discipline to facilitate future urb

-A Manifestation For Future Models of Societies Urbanism is a complex phenomenon, and is a synchronisation of a series of phenomena that adds to the plurality of any settlement – be it small or large. Urbanism then can be perceived as a time and space bound vector that constantly evolves. Therefore the term “urban design” becomes fairly ambiguous1. !Post industrial revolution urbanists have constantly made an attempt to revive and relook at developing models of urbanisms. The

Cities in the present scenario are both shrinking and expanding. Shrinking, as the virtual becomes more realistic and provides a platform for social, communal and economic activities; eliminating the need for physical space. And at the same time expanding because of the shear need to cater to the growing urban population, by providing new physical infrastructures. Due to this immense need for growth the pressure is increasing tremendously on the planning organisations. The tr

"Capillary Infrastructure" is a collective research and dissertation of Shantesh Kelvekar and Stanley Chuang on the revival of Jintang Island, a 100 sq.km. island on the east coast of China. The government initially proposed a haphazard development with no consideration to local community, culture or traditions. The proposal was driven through in capitalistic framework. Reviewing the proposed solution by the government, Shantesh and Stanley provided an alternative approach th

Abstract for MONU#15 Karl Heinrich Marx – Marxism, why so much of opposition? Marx was being holistic into his approach, he attempted to understand the dialectics of society‐politics‐economics of that era and respond to the conditions. He was critical of the socio‐economic class differentiation which existed in the model then, he termed it “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie”. Marx probably cannot be termed totally wrong for the time he existed; and perhaps even in present day t

Shantesh Kelvekar presented his collaborative research with Stanley Chung at the AA School of Architecture, London as part of the Architectural Association's Graduate Programme's course review. The panel comprised of directors of the AA Graduate School - Brett Steele, Mike Weinstock, Mark Cousins, Mariana Lathouri, Jorge Fiori, Douglas Spencer and Eva Castro to name a few. The panel reviewed the quality of the research and research methodology. The intent of the presentation

As part of AA Landscape Urbanism, the Batch of 2011 from AA LU visited Croatia to provide a design solution to the City of Rijeka. The above is the public presentation presented at City Hall in the presence of the Citizens and Mayor of Rijeka. The same was well received, and was covered by the media in Rijeka and Croatia. #AALU #AA #AASchoolofArchitecture #Croatia #Rijeka #London #Batch2011 #landscapeurbanism #ShanteshKelvekar #StanleyChuang #Design #UrbanDesign #Urban #Urban

Shantesh Kelvekar presented his thesis at Kurula Varkey Design Forum (2010-11) held at CEPT, Ahmedabad. Among the panelists were Architect B. V. Doshi, Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya, Architect Stephane Paumier and Prof. John Sergeant. The thesis was shortlisted among the top 20 thesis of the SAARC Nations. Later that same year, the thesis was published at Archiprix International too. #KVForum #KurulaVarkeyDesignForum #CEPT #Ahmedabad #BVDoshi #NeelkanthChhaya #StephanePaumier #JohnS