Vineet Diwadkar vineet@diwadkar.net www.diwadkar.net EDUCATION 2015 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA Master in Landscape Architecture Master in Urban Planning 2006 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Bachelor of Science in Architecture 2005 2006 Ećole Nationale Supeŕieure d Architecture de Paris La Villette, Paris, FRA Exchange Studies, Architecture & Urbanism 2003 Universitat Polite cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, ESP Study Abroad Program, Architecture PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 2016 AECOM, New York City and Washington DC, USA Urban Planner, Urban Analytics Group Project management and technical services in capacity building, climate change resilience and adaptation, citizen engagement, community development, green infrastructure, policy and strategy development, sustainable land management, systems optimization for global projects as part of the Cities Innovation practice and Design, Planning & Economics practice. Greater Visakhapatnam Smart City Regional Framework Plan and Projects (USTDA, GoAP) Promoting Green Urbanization in African Cities (World Bank, The Nature Conservancy) South Brooklyn Marine Terminal Site Plan (NYCEDC, Industry City) Cleveland E105-E93 Corridor Vacant Land Study (City of Cleveland) Triple Bottom Line (TBL), Sustainable Systems Integration Model (SSIM) projects (NASA, USNavy) Real Estate Development, Transportation, Public Housing studies (MTA, WMATA, private clients) 2013 Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research, New York City, USA Principal Researcher, Spatial Ethnography Lab, 2013 Research and design consultancy advising non-profits and community based organizations on community-based resilience building platform, geospatial data creation and analysis, urban risk reduction, housing and slum rehabilitation, land use, and urban development policy in Mumbai, India. Supporters: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Urban Design Research Institute. 2012 2015 Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Dept. of Urban Planning & Design, Cambridge, USA Research Associate, Urban South Asia Project Research and project management advising project design, policy and strategy development for urban development, heritage conservation, housing, infrastructure investment, urban risk reduction, sustainable land management projects in India. Planning for Conservation: Looking at Agra Mapping the Ephemeral Mega-City: Kumbh Mela 2013 Mumbai Research Portal, Harvard Mellon Urban Studies Initiative Partners: World Monuments Fund, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard Business School, Harvard South Asia Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, Global Health Institute, GXB Center, Archaeological Survey of India, and state and municipal governments in India. 2014 Opsys Landscape Infrastructure Lab, Cambridge, USA Designer Researched, developed, edited, and coordinated interviews, mapping, essays on oceanic urbanization for Harvard Design Magazine 39: Wet Matter. 2014 Harvard University Graduate School of Design: Dept. of Urban Planning & Design, Cambridge, USA Research Assistant, Urban Theory Lab led by Neil Brenner Investigating policies, literature, and infrastructure projects by states, corporations, and international organizations supporting extended urbanization in the Hindu Kush Himalayan range. 2010 2012 National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, IND Designer, Design Consultancy Services Collaborated on community-based urban planning, and visual design for sustainable livelihoods and heritage conservation projects for low-income trading communities, textile workers, and craftspeople. Alternative Rehabilitation Plan for the Ahmedabad Gujari Bazaar Banas Na Aana Museum Taj Ganj: Taking Our Heritage Forward Partners: Ahmedabad Gujari Association, Ford Foundation, Indian Institute of Management, Self Employed Women s Association (SEWA), Uttar Pradesh Department of Tourism 2008 2010 Centre for Development Studies & Activities, Pune, IND Designer & Research Assistant Supported housing and slum rehabilitation initiatives through policy research, documentation and visual communication in print and web media. 2007 2008 Gerding Collaborative, Atlanta, USA Project Designer & LEED Consultant Worked closely with clients throughout design process. Managed and coordinated 3D BIM modeling, construction documentation, and LEED certification for residential, institutional and commercial architecture and urban design projects. 2006 Morphosis Architects, Paris, FRA Intern Continuities of the Incomplete exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou. 2005 2006 Carlos Tardio Architecture, Atlanta, USA Intern Architect & Fabricator Developed and fabricated prototype steel housing components, site work, and foundations for multifamily tree house to conserve old-growth urban forest. Vineet Diwadkar CV 2
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2013 2015 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA GIS & Mapping Instructor Developed and conducted basic-to-advanced GIS workshops and individual instruction towards a variety of mapping applications using ESRI ArcGIS Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, Rhinoceros 3D, and Google Earth. 2013 2015 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA Teaching Assistant Developed curriculum, supported learning, coordinated courses for the Department of Landscape Architecture and Department of Urban Planning & Design. 1507 Extreme Urbanism III: Looking at Agra Options Studio, Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, Spring 2015 3375 Planning for Conservation: Urban South Asia Research Seminar, Profs. Rahul Mehrotra and Jana Cephas, Fall 2014 1211 Indexing Ecologies, Prof. Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Fall 2013, Fall 2014 3241 Theories of Landscape as Urbanism, Landscape as Infrastructure, Prof. Pierre Beĺanger, 2013 2010 2012 National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, IND Full-time Faculty Member Designed, developed and led Textiles and Space, Spatial Perception I, and Ahmedabad 600 design studios in the graduate and undergraduate Exhibition & Spatial Design, Textile Design and New Media Design departments. Member, Exhibition & Spatial Design Curriculum Review Committee; Co-Coordinator, International Open Electives; Member, Undergraduate Admissions Exam Committee. 2014 Awards Juror: Penny White Prize, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2006 2016 Guest Juror: Fachhochschule Hannover, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, National Institute of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Southern Polytechnic State University, University of Cambridge. PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES 2013 Entrepreneurial Governance and the Ahmedabad Gujari Bazaar: Erasure of the Sabarmati River as Commons in Revista Materia Arquitectura 7: 69-79, 110-115. BOOK MANUSCRIPTS 2018 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai. New York: UR Books. (coauthored with Vyjayanthi Rao). BOOK CHAPTERS 2015 From Informality to Parametricism and Back Again in Mortenbo ck, Peter, Helge Mooshammer, Teddy Cruz, and Fonna Forman, eds. Informal Markets World - Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure. Rotterdam: nai010. (with Vyjayanthi Rao). 2015 Setting the Megacity in Harvard University South Asia Institute, ed. Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City: The 2013 Kumbh Mela. Berlin: Hatje Cantz (with James Whitten and Oscar Malaspina). 2015 Governance and Organizational Structures in Harvard University South Asia Institute, ed. Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City: The 2013 Kumbh Mela. Berlin: Hatje Cantz (with Benjamin Scheerbarth and Alykhan Mohamed). REPORTS Vineet Diwadkar CV 3
2018 Universal Basic Income in New York City. New York City: Jain Family Institute. (with Rob Daurio) 2017 Visakhapatnam Smart City Regional Framework Plan and Sector-Specific Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Trade and Development Agency. (with AECOM, IBM, KPMG). 2017 Deep Streets Speculation and Slow Violence in Dharavi in Reinventing Dharavi: An International Compendium. Mumbai: UDRI. (Co-authored with Vyjayanthi Rao, Deborah Hoffman Brandt, Hector Tarrido-Picart, Christopher Alton). 2016 Planning for Conservation: Looking at Agra. Cambridge: World Monument Fund. (Co-Edited with Rahul Mehrotra and Jose Mayoral Moratilla). 2014 Extreme Territories of Urbanization: Himalaya in Leire Asensio, ed. Platform 7. Barcelona: Actar. 2013 Coastal Membrane: Engineered Flows Across the Nile Delta Estuary. Report to Department of Landscape Architecture. Cambridge: Harvard University Graduate School of Design (with Tamer Elshayal). 2011 Taj Ganj: Taking Our Heritage Forward. National Institute of Design. Report to Uttar Pradesh Dept. of Tourism. Ahmedabad: NID. EXHIBITIONS 2017 Dabbawalas of Mumbai film at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, Seoul, KOR, 2017. 2015 2016 Extreme Territories of Urbanization: Himalaya (with Urban Theory Lab led by Neil Brenner) in the Radical Urbanism: Towards a New Cartography of the Urban exhibition, Shenzhen Biennale for Urbanism + Architecture, CHN 2015 Extreme Territories of Urbanization: Himalaya (with Urban Theory Lab led by Neil Brenner) in The City of 7 Billion exhibition, Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, USA 2015 Dabbawalas of Mumbai film in Food dal Cucchiaio al Mondo exhibition, MAXXI Foundation, Rome, ITA 2015 Extreme Territories of Urbanization: Himalaya (with Urban Theory Lab led by Neil Brenner) in Operational Landscapes exhibition, University of Melbourne, AUS 2015 Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City: The 2013 Kumbh Mela exhibition: Harvard University, USA 2015 Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City: The 2013 Kumbh Mela exhibition: India Habitat Centre, IND 2015 Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City: The 2013 Kumbh Mela exhibition: Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, CHL 2014 Deep Streets Speculation and Slow Violence in Dharavi (with Vyjayanthi Rao, Deborah Hoffman Brandt, Hector Tarrido-Picart, Christopher Alton) in the Reinventing Dharavi: An International Ideas Competition, Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, IND 2014 Terrains of Uneven Development: Boston s Economies within Land Capital (with Christopher Alton) in Grounded Visionaries exhibition, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA. INVITED LECTURES 2017 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai, invited talk at the Mumbai: Social Research and Urban Projections symposium, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Cambridge, USA 2016 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai invited talk at the Housing in Mumbai course, Department of Urban Planning & Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2015 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai invited talk at the Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, IND Vineet Diwadkar CV 4
2015 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA 2014 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai invited talk (with Vyjayanthi Rao) at the Urban Risk Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. 2014 50 Ways to Game a City: Loophole Planning in Contemporary Mumbai invited talk (with Vyjayanthi Rao) in the Landscape as Infrastructure course, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. 2014 Water Bodies and the Construction of Public Projects: Ecological Modernization and Displacement in Entrepreneurial Ahmedabad (with Navdeep Mathur) at the 23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Zurich, CHE 2013 Modelling Mumbai invited talk (with Vyjayanthi Rao) at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2013 Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City: The 2013 Kumbh Mela (with project team) at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA 2012 Design and Advocacy in Ahmedabad at Conference on Urban Changes & Culture, with Staatliche Kunstsammlu ngen Dresden and Victoria & Albert Museum, Kolkata, IND. 2010 City and Sustainability Symposium (Co-Coordinator with Lawrence Siddhartha Benninger), India Habitat Centre with the Centre for Development Studies, Pune, IND. AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS 2018 Smart City Planning Award, American Planning Association (AECOM Chengdu Master Plan) 2017 Award of Excellence for Urban Planning, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AECOM SW Brooklyn Study) 2017 Merit Award, American Society of Landscape Architects NY Chapter (AECOM SW Brooklyn Study) 2015 Research Fellow, Urban Design Research Institute 2015 Charles Eliot Prize Runner Up, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2015 National AICP Student Project Award, American Planning Association 2015 Summer Research Grant, Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies 2015 Travel Grant, Harvard University Asia Center 2014 Student Project Award, American Planning Association Massachusetts Chapter 2014 Summer Research Grant, Harvard University South Asia Institute 2013 Penny White Prize, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2013 Paul M. Heffernan Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2012 Winter Research Grant, Harvard University South Asia Institute 2011 Universal Design Research Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst 2005 2006 J. Bowden Scholarship for Study Abroad, Georgia Institute of Technology LICENSURE American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) # 29681, American Planning Association, 2017 - Present. LEED Accredited Professional # 0010045776, United States Green Building Council, 2008 - Present. LANGUAGES English (native) French (intermediate) Hindi (intermediate) Marathi (intermediate) Spanish (intermediate) SOFTWARE Adobe Creative Suite, BSD SpecLink+, ESRI ArcGIS Suite, Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Microsoft Office Suite, McNeel Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, MapBox, WordPress. Vineet Diwadkar CV 5