B.Arch. (Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai)
M.A (Frankfurt, Germany)
Ph.D. (University of Melbourne)
Associate Professor
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ORCID ID | 0000-0002-8530-6062 |
Key Expertise | informal urbanism, urban inequality, spatial justice, housing justice, urban citizenship, displacement, coercive environmentalism, architectural pedagogy, |
B.Arch. (Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai)
M.A (Frankfurt, Germany)
Ph.D. (University of Melbourne)
Ishita Chatterjee is an architect and urban designer who worked in India and China before joining academia. She is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on informal urbanism, housing rights, spatial justice, and architectural pedagogy.
She co-authored the book Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design. She advocates for in-situ upgrading and land rights for basti residents. She received an international grant ‘Antipode Foundation’s Right to the Discipline grant’ in 2023 for her work on ‘Urban Natures and Informal Settlements: Resisting Coercive Environmentalism and Forced Evictions.’ She has been an active participant in social movements on housing rights in India. Her words have been published in international academic journals and The Wire, Outlook, Scroll, The Leaflet, The Bastion, The Conversation, and LSE blogs among others. She has been interviewed by Hindustan Times, NDTV, and 3CR community radio in Melbourne.
Housing, Planning and Policy
Architectural Obsessions
Architectural Atelier - Rethinking Rehabilitation Housing
Urban Economic Systems
What is research?
Wiley Prize 2021 best paper for the article ‘Rising inequalities, deepening divides: Urban citizenship in the time of COVID-19’ in Geographical Research, 2022
Urban Natures and Informal Settlements: Resisting Coercive Environmentalism and Forced Evictions, Antipode Foundation “Right to the Discipline” grant, 2023
ORCID ID | 0000-0002-8530-6062 |
Key Expertise | informal urbanism, urban inequality, spatial justice, housing justice, urban citizenship, displacement, coercive environmentalism, architectural pedagogy, |