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

Members, Participants and Jury of Les Ateliers, Paris Photograph: Léa Morfoisse Preetanshi Singh and Shantesh Kelvekar were among the 24 participants who were shortlisted to participate in the competition to revive Plaine de Pierrelaye in the Greater Paris Region, France by Les Ateliers. There were in total 24 participants who came from 12 countries. Team D, comprising of Preetanshi, Shantesh and Juliette, Joseph, Préscilia, Sophia were awarded the Egis Foundation Award. 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

The research on Jintang Island in China and the design proposal prepared by Shantesh Kelvekar and Stanley Chung part of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, 2011 at Tallinn, Estonia. The research and design proposal explored design possibilities by investigating the issue through the theories of landscape urbanism. The proposal was part of academic research at Architectural Association, London. The research was conducted at the Graduate programme of Landscape Urbanism in 2010-1

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

'Project Fresh Kills', was a essay/ paper written by Shantesh Kelvekar as part of term 2 for Machining Landscapes lead by Tom Smith. The paper looks at the case of Fresh Kills as a dumping ground on Staten Island, and how it from there evolves into a desired landscape for the neighbourhood in New York. The paper provides a global optimism and a fresh outlook towards managing wastes and carbon footprints of cities in the coming future. #TomSmith #AALU #AA #JamesCorner #StatenI

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

"Landscape Paraphrased Into Urbanity" was written by Shantesh Kelvekar as part of a term and session titled Machining Landscape by Tom Smith. The paper allowed to deepen the research of Shantesh in collaboration with Stanley to review the Jintang Island in China. The paper was reviewed and approved by Tom Smith. #ArchitecturalAssociation #AA #AALU #AASchoolofArchitecture #London #TomSmith #LandscapeUrbanism #ShanteshKelvekar #MachiningLandscapes