Vidisha is an urban designer specializing in urban mobility and particpatory planning. As an urbanist intervening in different environments across various geographies, she sees humanity and nature as not seperate. She enjoys expanding her knowledge on this symbiotic relationship through books and travel and observes patterns that guide her interventions with a inclusive and scientific approach. She is passionate about how people move in the cities and is actively engaged with the mobility discourse through research and action in India.
At urbz, she collaborates and makes connections with citizens, associations, local governments and private clients to deliver urban planning analysis and design in Mumbai and Geneva. Her primary role as an urban designer involves ideating and executing in-person and digital participatory processes towards a shared vision, developing comprehensive plans for neighbourhoods, data visualization, research and writing
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Quantify or Qualify?
This post reflects on the methodological challenges faced in our ongoing research on Gendered Mobility and Climate Action.
Is Climate Change Man Made?
The second blog in the series on Gendered Mobility and Climate Action discusses the methodology and approach we used to conduct the research.
Gendered Mobility and Climate Action
An introduction to the effect of gendered travel behaviour on carbon emissions.
The Keny House
urbz is working on the design of a house for a joint family of 38 people, on a plot of 330 Sq.mts (3500 Sq.ft) in the dense urban settlement of Dharavi Koliwada, Mumbai.
