B.Arch. (Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai)
M.A : Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt, Germany
Ph.D. University of Melbourne (Urban Studies)
Associate Professor & Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development
ishita.chatterjee@jgu.edu.in | |
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ORCID ID | 0000-0002-9610-5354 |
Key Expertise | informal urbanism, urban inequality, housing justice, spatial justice, environmental justice and architectural pedagogy |
B.Arch. (Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai)
M.A : Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt, Germany
Ph.D. University of Melbourne (Urban Studies)
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 and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on informal urbanism, housing justice, spatial justice, environmental justice, ecological debt, and architectural pedagogy.
She co-authored the book Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design and advocates for in-situ upgrading and land rights for residents of informal settlements. She has received international grants, including the 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, and the Urban Studies Foundation’s Seminar Series Award in 2025 for her project Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: A Seminar Series for Early-Career and Under-Represented Scholars to Decentre Urban Knowledge.
She has been an active participant in social movements on housing rights in India. Her writing has been published in international academic journals and media platforms such as The Wire, Outlook, Scroll, The Leaflet, The Bastion, The Conversation, and LSE blogs, among others. She has also 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
Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge, Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award, 2025
Urban Natures and Informal Settlements: Resisting Coercive Environmentalism and Forced Evictions, Right to the Discipline Grant, Antipode Foundation, 2023
ishita.chatterjee@jgu.edu.in | |
ORCID ID | 0000-0002-9610-5354 |
Key Expertise | informal urbanism, urban inequality, housing justice, spatial justice, environmental justice and architectural pedagogy |