Anne-Katrin Fenk

Architect and Urban Designer. Co-founder of MOD Institute. Highly experienced in international research projects on urban design and urban development, especially in Asia. Since 2005 Assistant Professor at the Technical University Berlin. Managed several international research and open space platforms on urban development. Curated several exhibitions on India’s urban landscapes. She is writing her PhD thesis on modernist movement between 1950s and 1960s in India. Since 2000 she regularly worked and conducted studies in India.

V. Naresh Narasimhan

Managing Partner of Venkataramanan Associates (VA), a renowned 40-year-old Architecture firm based in Bangalore. He graduated in Architecture from the Manipal Institute of Technology, and further education in Project Appraisal and Risk Management from Harvard. Naresh has led the expansion of VA into diversified markets with particular strengths in Research and development, specialized manufacturing, IT business parks, public and institutional buildings, corporate offices and realty. With a sound understanding of global trends in project planning, architectural design, urban design, and infrastructure within a sustainable framework, Naresh also has a keen interest in design theory, economic modelling and information systems. A Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects , as well as a Founder-Member of the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF), a public-private initiative to address the problems of Bangalore’s infrastructure.He advises urban government agencies on infrastructure development and is also Director of Janaadhar, a Bangalore based social housing company, and is the Co-founder of MOD Institute.

Tanya Chandel

Tanya Chandel is a Heritage Conservationist with a background in History.  Coming from a humanities background she views cities as an ever evolving tangible manifestation of the intangible cultural processes that is unique to  its inhabitant. Hence, she strongly believes that while it is important to design cities for people; the result of the process can be deemed sustainable only when it creates educated, empowered and involved citizens. As a Research Associate at MOD she is exploring this very narrative involving cities and its people.

Aishwarya Viswanathan

Aishwarya Viswanathan is a researcher and visual artist. Her work involves visualizing research insights and inquiries. She also works on communicating conceptual and philosophical ideas through new media art. She is a Visual Arts degree graduate from Stella Maris College, Chennai,and has a master’s degree in Aesthetics and Visual Cultures from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore. Her interests include art theory, philosophy and digital visual cultures.

Rachel Lee

Architect and urban researcher. Rachel studied architecture at the Mackintosh School in Glasgow and the Berlin School of Art. She is currently writing her PhD thesis “Otto Koenigsberger: Bringing Modernism to India” at the Habitat Unit, TU Berlin. As well as working with German architecture firms, she has curated exhibitions on urban/art issues and created sustainable urban development projects with id22: experimentcity. She has received two INTACH research grants for architectural research in India and is a German management committee member of the “European Architecture Beyond Europe,” an European COST Action ISO904 project.