August ‘17 - May ‘18

Prospectus

urbanfellows.iihs.co.in

We live in a deeply divided and unequal world that is changing very fast. While India's economy, power and technological capabilities are growing rapidly, most of our cities,

towns, and villages continue to be unlivable, unsafe, and increasingly inhuman. The process of India's urbanisation—if adequately organised and managed with wisdom,

foresight and a focus on detail and implementation—can change our everyday urban realities. We need a new breed of professional urban practitioners who can work

through these apparently difficult problems; work with and manage teams of other professionals, firms, policymakers and even politicians; and build new institutions that

will alter the face of 21st century India.

llHS is a national educational institution committed to this goal, by enabling the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. To respond to the

strong contemporary emphasis on city building, upgrading and transformation, IIHS launched the Urban Fellows Programme. The first batch started in August 2016 and will

graduate in May 2017. Thirty Fellows spent nine months at IIHS being challenged with a wide range of urban problems in a variety of contexts from small towns to large

metropolitan centers. They are now placed in a range of private, public, media and civil society organisations for their internships.

The next round of applications will start in March 2017. Thirty five, exceptionally talented and committed learners from across India from multiple disciplines and diverse

backgrounds will spend nine months at llHS. They will be challenged intellectually and by field-based problem solving around complex contemporary urban challenges: from

employment and informality; universal housing, water and sanitation coverage; congestion and air pollution; integrated planning; urban inequality and violence to climate

change.

Fellows will have the opportunity to learn from an interdisciplinary team of academics and practitioners at llHS, considered among the best in the world. IlHS' 21st century

teaching- learning environment is organised around the learner. It uses problem-based learning via interactive lectures and seminars, skill labs, practica, master classes and

field immersions to explore a unique interdisciplinary curriculum that was designed over the course of two years by 200 of the world's leading practitioners, policymakers

and academics.

This will help Fellows build on their experience, knowledge and skills to become well- rounded interdisciplinary professionals, who have the ability to work on a wide range of

issues. They will learn how to learn and work in teams from peers from close to a dozen disciplines and travel to diverse locations in the country. Internship opportunities

with leading institutions in the country will enable the fellows to sharpen their skills and prepare for a successful transition into professional life in areas of their choice.

I invite you to go through this Programme Profile. It lays out the vision of the Programme, and an outline of what the Fellows' learning journey at IIHS will be.

With warm regards

Aromar Revi

Director

Director’s Note

Current education takes place in disciplinary silos like planning, design, technology, management, economics, humanities, legal and urban studies education

The Urban ChallengeIndia is emerging as the site of perhaps the largest urban transition that will unfold over the next two to three decades, which is projected to

add 300 million more urban residents by 2050. This transition will bring not just opportunities through increased economic growth and

employment, but also challenges, as cities will continue to deal with inequality, deprivation and environmental degradation.

Converting these challenges into opportunities will need collective and coordinated efforts by governments, private enterprises, civil society,

communities, and citizens. The Government of India has begun to acknowledge the enormity of this challenge through the launch of

programmes such as JnNURM and RAY in the early 2000s and more recently with AMRUT, the Smart Cities Mission, PMAY, HRIDAY and

Swachh Bharat. In parallel, there has also been a significant increase in private sector activity in the infrastructure, housing and real estate

sectors over the last decade and a half. This is taking place alongside an increase in household, informal sector enterprise and civil society

participation that is transforming our cities, towns and villages at an increasing pace.

India's emerging urban transition needs a new generation of urban practitioners with

adequate knowledge, reflective thinking, appropriate skills, new perspectives, and the

right values. Current education takes place in disciplinary silos like planning, design,

technology, management, economics, humanities, legal and urban studies education,

and is unable to creatively respond to these challenges. More than technology or

capital, the real and urgent obstacle to transforming urban India lies in the inability of

our education system to produce urban practitioners who can enable the integration,

management and coordination of these disparate processes occurring in today's urban

and urbanising settlements.

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution

that has undertaken to develop and teach original, innovative, and reflective

knowledge about our urban transition that will integrate methods and approaches

across disciplinary and practice traditions. The Urban Fellows Programme (UFP) is one

of our flagship programmes, seeking to equip, nurture and prepare a new generation

of graduates and young professionals committed to the common good, who can

become change-makers, entrepreneurs and thought leaders to address India's

complex urban challenges.

The Indian Institute for Human SettlementsThe Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national educational institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient

transformation of urban settlements in India and beyond. Organized around five interdisciplinary Schools of: Environment and

Sustainability; Human Development; Economic Development; Governance and Policy; and Settlements and Infrastructure, IIHS is in the

process of establishing an independently funded and managed national university for research and innovation, focused on the challenges

and opportunities of India's urban transition.

IIHS hosts many high-quality integrated programmes: campus-based education and research, training and lifelong learning for working

professionals, as well as an array of practice and advisory services. IIHS has a strong interdisciplinary orientation, bringing together theory

and praxis that is grounded in the South Asian context, while engaging with and drawing from knowledge across the globe. It works in

collaboration with a diverse array of institutional partners and international advisors and draws together a global network of knowledge

and praxis partners: universities, firms, think tanks and civil society organisations, national and state governments and UN and international

institutions to address the critical challenge of creating sustainable human settlements in South Asia. They include ARUP, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology – Department of Urban Studies and Planning; University College London – The Bartlett Development Planning Unit,

the African Climate & Development Initiative, and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.

Practice Programme

The IIHS Practice Programme works on complex urban challenges with a wide range of partner institutions, including national and state

governments, UN agencies, international development financing institutions and Foundations, INGOs, NGOs, and Community Based

Organisations. IIHS works across a range of practice domains including regional and economic development, urban infrastructure planning,

land, housing, water supply and sanitation, poverty reduction, policy reform and legislation, sustainability, environment and climate

change. Current projects include: the Urban Land Records Management and E- governance Support Initiative for the Government of India;

UNDP Urban Poverty Strategy 2013-2017; Affordable Housing Policy for the Government of Karnataka; Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation

Support Program for the Government of Tamil Nadu and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and developing Sustainable Development

Goals (SDG) for the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN).

IIHS works across a range of practice domains including regional and economic development, urban infrastructure planning, land, housing, water supply and sanitation, poverty reduction, policy reform and legislation, sustainability, the environment and climate change

Research Programme

The IIHS Research Programme has developed an international reputation for its interdisciplinary, cross-scale and cross-institution urban and

regional research. The IIHS faculty is developing a strong portfolio of peer-reviewed publications apart from working at the forefront of

some areas of knowledge: climate change, regional economic development, land administration, urban planning, urban poverty and

housing, urban environmental services and sustainability. For example, researchers in IIHS are part of the Reframing Urban Inclusion

project that is creating a body of up to 40 interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative cases for teaching and learning based in India

and other cities of the global South.

Infrastructure and Facilities

The IIHS' main 55-acre mother campus at Kengeri in Bengaluru is being planned and developed to host its academic, research, lifelong

learning, and social infrastructure including student and faculty housing. Integrated with its immediate context, the Kengeri campus intends

to demonstrate progressive thinking about how an efficient, environmentally friendly, sustainable and aesthetic urban settlement could be

planned, designed, built and managed. The design and implementation process involves close interaction between planners, designers,

social scientists, craftspeople, and the local communities. The campus development offers opportunities for interested staff, learners and

Fellows to directly work on planning and development, urban agriculture, plantation, and infrastructure development. The Kengeri campus

complements IIHS' Bangalore City Campus as well as Tharangavana, both located in central Bangalore.

Urban Practitioners' Programme

The IIHS Urban Practitioners Programme (UPP) caters to the training and development needs of public, private and civil society institutions.

Since 2011, it has run interdisciplinary and specialised short courses for over 3,300 participants on a number of contemporary urban

themes including Housing, Geographical Information Systems, Integrated Urban Disaster Risk Reduction, Re-Imagining the 'World-Class'

City, Sustainable Urban Futures, and Environmental Sustainability. IIHS is a recognized National Resource Centre of the Government of

India's Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA) and the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD). IIHS partners with the

Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) to train senior-to-entry-level Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers

as well as with multiple State Administrative staff colleges to train urban and municipal officers.

Tharangavana

Tharangavana is a heritage building located in a one acre area of rare plants and trees overlooking Sankey Tank in Sadasivanagar,

Bangalore.It serves as an ideal location for IIHS to conduct seminars, discussions and provide space for quiet reflection for scholars,

practitioners and policy makers.

IIHS Bangalore City Campus

IIHS currently functions out of a 21,000 sq ft City Campus spanning four floors and an expansive terrace that is an ideal open learning

environment for teaching, research and training. Located close to all major transport hubs and key educational institutions, it hosts facilities

that are suitable for a wide range of programmes and events and offers a unique and vibrant environment for an enthusiastic learner.

Public Hall and Exhibition Space

IIHS has a large Public Hall that is used for a variety of events ranging from public talks,

classes, conferences and workshops to film screenings, and an accompanying exhibition

space that is used to display art and photography.

Social Spaces

From a generous semi-covered area on the ground floor to a spill out area on the main

teaching floor and the expansive rooftop cafeteria, there are ample social spaces for

Fellows to meet, gather and interact.

Multiple Teaching-Learning Spaces

These include flexible classroom, seminar and studio spaces over three floors of the main campus building. These are complemented by

numerous spaces for group-work as well as for teaching and learning. Each of these spaces is equipped with technological aids ranging from

digital projection and visual displays to advanced video-conferencing capabilities that enable remote audio-visual discussions and sessions.

Media Lab

The Media Lab supports research, teaching and pedagogy inside and outside the

classroom and conducts short filmmaking courses on the city through digital video and still

photography. It holds film festivals, regular film screenings and conversations with

filmmakers whose work has focused around urban questions. The Media Lab is also a

repository for audio-visual conversations by leading academics and practitioners on urban

questions. It is also the centre of all digital media-related work and assists teaching and

learning by capturing and editing videos of lecture sessions and other events. Fellows can

learn more about the latest media hardware and software and understand how these can

be applied to their own work.

Geospatial Lab

The Geospatial Lab conducts cutting edge research on the spatial patterns of India's on- going urban transformation using a range of

geospatial tools and software. It provides spatial analysis and cartographic support to IIHS' Research and Practice programmes and offers

short and long term training courses.

Word Lab

The Word Lab supports and facilitates the production of diverse forms of writing at

IIHS for communication with a wide set of readers. The Word Lab manages IIHS'

central public knowledge platform – the Knowledge Gateway - and assists the IIHS

Editorial Collective to produce the bi-annual journal Urbanisation (Sage). It also

curates critical readers in urban theory and practice, organises an annual urban

literature festival, creates a network of editorial and writing support as well as

promotes a culture of reading and intellectual exchange for the IIHS community.

Library

The IIHS Library was established in December 2008 and has since been adding books

and journals to create a plethora of inter-disciplinary material.

Presently housed in the Bangalore City Campus it has access to over 7,500 books and

4500 e-journals and magazines across disciplines. Additional learning materials

include cartographic materials, case studies and films. The Library offers extensive

access to the latest academic work through wide ranging and inter- disciplinary

journal subscriptions as well as a Data Library that accesses and archives the most

current public data available in India. The Library subscribes to EBSCO's EconLit with

Full Text, Social Sciences with Full Text, Art and Architecture Complete and Manupatra

databases for Social Science literature and Legal information. It is also a participating

institute with JSTOR. Equipped with public computers and teaching aids such as Prezi,

EndNote and Turnitin, the library supports learners through circulation, reference and

information services.

The IIHS Library offers

extensive access to the latest

academic work through wide

ranging and inter-

disciplinary journal

subscriptions as well as a

Data Library that accesses

and archives the most

current macro data available

in India.

Programmes and Events

IIHS is a vibrant hub of research, teaching and training programmes as well as multiple academic, cultural and interactive public events. IIHS

regularly plays host to a diverse range of academics, practitioners, activists, artists, writers and government officials who frequently visit as

part of the many curated events at IIHS. These include talks and seminars, conferences and workshops, exhibitions and screenings. Recent

events at IIHS are the Urban Policy Dialogues, Urban ARC (the annual IIHS research conference), the annual IIHS PhD workshop, doctoral

research seminars, City Scripts (literature festival), Urban Lens (film festival), IIHS Publics, and various Master Classes.

Through its various activities and events, IIHS offers a unique opportunity to interact with urbanists from across the world working on

diverse disciplinary and practice domains – including visiting scholars, interns, researchers, filmmakers, artists, writers, government officials,

businesses, civil society, activists, and citizens.

The Urban Fellows Programme (UFP) is one of our flagship programmes, seeking to equip, nurture and prepare a new generation of

graduates and young professionals committed to the common good, who can become change-makers, team players, original thinkers,

reflective practitioners, entrepreneurs and thought leaders to address India's complex urban challenges.

The UFP is a fully funded, nine-month, full-time, inter-disciplinary programme based at the IIHS City Campus in Bangalore. It seeks to

combine classroom-based teaching, site-based applied learning, work in live projects, and external internships to introduce learners to

diverse forms of urban practice. It is open to recent graduates and young professionals from varied educational backgrounds or practice

domains. Through the UFP, Fellows will:

Ÿ Understand issues of urbanisation in India and the global south from multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Ÿ Learn from practice as a young professional seeking to enter the urban sector.

Ÿ Develop skills necessary to analyse, understand, and identify key urban issues in India.

Ÿ Build a foundation from which to design inter-disciplinary urban interventions.

Ÿ Network with diverse global, national, and local thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and change makers

Ÿ Learn from a diverse and experienced faculty who bring together theory and practice

The Curriculum

The UFP's curriculum draws from the IIHS curriculum co-created in partnership with the world's leading universities including the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University College London (UCL), the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Federal University

of the ABC Region, Sao Paulo (UFABC), in addition to nearly a hundred practitioners and scholars from across India.

The Fellowship consists of seven key Learning Elements. These are detailed below.

The Urban Fellows Programme 2017-18

1. The Commons

The Commons represents the heart of the UFP and engages with five key concepts stretching over eight weeks. Using a mix of classroom-

based teaching, and case-based learning, the Commons is where Fellows understand the different approaches, systems, aspects and

components that make up the urban. It is also where Fellows from different disciplinary backgrounds learn a common new vocabulary and

a set of conceptual perspectives to think about the urban.

There are six core modules:

Ÿ Sustainability

Ÿ Inequality

Ÿ Economy

Ÿ Governance

Ÿ Infrastructure

In addition, the Commons will also host the 'Unpacking Urbanism' series: a set of weekly interactions that will run through the entire

duration of the programme. Through a curated set of Master Classes, lectures, films, and field visits, the Fellows will unpack central ideas

and frameworks that are critical to how we understand the urban in the Indian context specifically, and across the world more broadly. The

Unpacking Urbanism series will be co-taught by IIHS faculty, and a range of domestic and international guest faculty, allowing the Fellows to

interact with leading practitioners, and researchers from across the world.

The formulation of such a Commons is unique to IIHS' curriculum thinking, and is considered cutting edge pedagogical practice in the world.

Over the course of eight weeks, Fellows will engage with the five key concepts across different urban systems, learning how these are inter-

connected and learn to read and work across them to develop comprehensive perspectives and help enable effective problem solving.

A simple example will make this clear. To provide water to a low-income urban settlement, it is necessary to tackle the technical problem of

designing and building a local piped water supply network often in the absence of connectivity to bulk supply lines. It is equally important to

understand and make informed decisions on how the water should be priced and regulated as well as how to prioritise equitable access to

water connections given the reality of caste, class, cultural and gender politics. There are often serious ecological constraints to this because

of the destruction of watersheds or pollution of groundwater. Further, there might be complex political and institutional negotiations for

contracting and maintenance.

Therefore, the Commons will equip Fellows to understand the various dimensions of urban questions that need an inter-disciplinary

perspective. Fellows will learn how a range of institutions (government, private, and community) impact our cities at different scales (local,

city and regional) to begin to formulate inter-sectoral, sustainable and effective responses. The figure below demonstrates the key learning

elements of the Urban Commons.

2. Elective Modules

Building on the Commons, Elective courses are offered as four two-week modules that will link concepts and skills taught in the Commons

to contemporary urban challenges as well as to the professional workplaces that the Fellows will eventually be part of. Fellows will be able

to choose two of six elective courses that will enable them to understand, engage and grapple with contemporary policy debates.

In 2016-17, these electives included a combination of

practice-oriented courses including modules on Housing,

Transport, and Community-based Planning where Fellows

interrogated how the policy problem was framed, the

interventions and actions proposed, and the possibilities

and challenges of the current paradigm. Other elective

courses were more conceptual and allowed Fellows to

explore ideas and concepts that inform the

understanding of the urban such as Southern Urban

Theory, and Reading the City. The Elective modules will

also offer more conceptual courses that enable Fellows to

understand the theoretical underpinnings of urban

practice.

A long list of Electives includes courses on Transport,

Energy, Housing, Climate Change and Urbanization,

Disaster Risk Reduction, Municipal Finance, Southern

Urban Theory, Planning and Communities, Land and

Economic Development, Law and Urbanism, Water and

Sanitation, and Livelihoods and Employment.

The Elective Modules therefore prepare the Fellows to

face the constraints, complexities and contradictions in

real-world practice and policy.

3. Applied Practica and Projects

Learning that bridges theory with practice and emphasizes problem-solving skills cannot be confined to the classroom. Therefore, the

Fellows will spend at least a third of each working week on Practica problems. The Practica are term-length, site-based applied learning

modules. They draw on real-life cases and working problems that are situated in the city.

Working individually as well as in teams, the Practica will enable the participants to integrate theory with practice as well as to deploy the

skills and concepts learned in the classroom to imagine and develop appropriate, innovative and sustainable solutions for the Indian

context. The Practica will also allow participants to interact with critical stakeholders in the city – like government officials, entrepreneurs,

civil society organizations, activists and citizens. In 2016-17, Practica-1 ran through the first five weeks of the Commons term, where the

Fellows explored two neighbourhoods in Bangalore integrating diverse perspectives: ecological and economic transformations, social and

cultural identity, urban regeneration, mobility and so on. The 16-week Practica-2 focused on Housing, Ecological Security, and Inclusive

Economic Development in Bengaluru.

This year, the Fellows will engage with sites and complex urban issues through two structured modules. The first will be a six-week Practica

focusing on specific bounded neighbourhoods (municipal ward, for example) and geographies (corridors, for example). This will form the

ground where the classroom teaching will be tested, examined, and reformulated. Specific methods of documentation, representation,

description and analysis (for example, mapping, GIS, surveying, interviews, and participant observation) will be taught through this Practica.

Practica -1 is conceived as a prelude to the more detailed long term Project based exercises that will follow.

The second structured component will see the Fellows placed with different projects' teams within IIHS for a period of six months. This will

enable real-time application of the theory and skills they learn during the fellowship. The projects will be matched on to the fellows based

on their previous training and experience, interests, and future plans. It is envisaged that the specific project-related tasks will enable

knowledge and skill building in specific area(s), in addition to the classroom sessions. The fellows will also be able to develop and hone a

number of soft skills during their project work including teamwork, time management, etc. Each fellow will be assigned a project mentor

who will make sure that there is expectation management from both the sides. An in-house 6-month project period shall prepare the

fellows better for their internships and jobs outside IIHS.

4. Skill Labs

Through the programme, Fellows will be equipped with the most appropriate technical, analytical and professional skills that will be taught

through a series of labs, as well as through assignments and the Practica and Projects to enable Fellows to apply these skills beyond the

classroom. The UFP has a core programme of skills building that covers both required and elective skill labs.

5. Internship

UFP guarantees a two-month internship for all Fellows in order to facilitate the transition from classroom learning to the complex world of

work and practice. Internships will be offered in government departments and public institutions, private firms and practices, social

movements, non-governmental organisations, research think-tanks, development sector organisations and planning and design firms,

among others. Each learner will focus on a work programme after reaching an agreement with members of the IIHS faculty and the

institution about the mutually beneficial outputs from the Internship. Internship outputs can take multiple forms including a conceptual

paper, policy brief or analysis, spatial plans, business models, technical reports, film and video, among others.

In 2016-17, the Fellows will be interning with a wide range of institutions including the Centre for Policy Research (Delhi), Centre for Urban

Equity, CEPT (Ahmedabad), Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, CBRE India, Conservation India, Mahila Housing Trust

SEWA, and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, among others.

Skill Labs:

Ÿ Oral and Public Communication

Ÿ Leadership

Ÿ Quantitative Analysis

Ÿ Qualitative Methods

Ÿ Writing

Ÿ Theatre and Voice

Ÿ Project and Financial Management

For the UFP 2016-17, the following institutions are participating in the Fellowship Internship programme:

HYDERABAD

URBAN LAB

Ÿ Media and Film

Ÿ Research Design

Ÿ Geo Spatial analysis

6. Immersion Trips

Through a series of field-based immersion trips in cities of different sizes and types, the Fellows will be exposed to complex problems in the

real world. They will observe, diagnose and conceptualise solutions to real life problems in both small towns as well as in larger, million-plus

cities in India. In 2016-17, the Fellows visited five cities: Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kochi, and Madurai.

In each of these cities, they met with a range of stakeholders including government officials, business leaders and civil society organisations,

among others. They had the opportunity to learn about particular questions on urban services, affordable housing, environmental

sustainability, transportation, employment generation, poverty reduction, and small business development. During immersion projects, the

Fellows will work in teams to facilitate peer learning and will be expected to apply the skills learned through skill labs, such as qualitative or

quantitative methods, film making, and report writing.

These close interactions will help the Fellows learn about diverse ethical, political, and material complexities while practicing in urban contexts.

7. Master Classes

Master Classes are a critical learning space for the Fellows that will go beyond technical

and disciplinary knowledge; they will provide Fellows with opportunities to meet

thought-leaders and practitioners from India and across the world, to learn about their

work and the challenges they face as practitioners in different disciplines and domains.

These close interactions will help the Fellows learn about diverse ethical, political, and

material complexities while practicing in urban contexts. It will also expose the Fellows

to specific domain knowledge that is rooted in years of experience. Master Classes will

help our Fellows identify and explore professional options and career trajectories after

successfully graduating from the programme. In 2016-17, Fellows attended Master

Classes by Mr. S.V. Ranganath (former Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka), N.

Paul Divakar and Beena Pallickal (from the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights),

Nandan Nilekani (ex-CEO of Infosys and former chairman of the Unique Identification

Authority of India), Renana Jhabvala (National coordinator of the Self Employed

Women’s Association and Chairperson, SEWA Bharat), among others. .

Programme structure and timelines

th thThe Fellowship runs from 16 August 2017 to 5 May 2018.

It is structured across three main terms – Commons Term (8 weeks), Elective Term (8 weeks) and the Internship Term (8 weeks). Skill Labs

and Master Classes run throughout the Fellowship. There are two Immersion trips, as well as regular breaks through the year as indicated.

Aug 16th – 18th Introductions and Orientation

Aug 21st – Oct 13th Commons Term

Oct 14th – Oct 21st Diwali Break

Oct 22nd – Nov 4th Immersion Trip: BOM, AMD, MAA

Nov 6th – Nov 17th Elective Module 1

Nov 20th – Dec 1st Elective Module 2

Dec 4th – Dec 8th Reading Week

Dec 11th – Dec 22nd Elective Module 3

Dec 23rd – Jan 7th Winter Break

Jan 8th – Jan 13th Urban ARC

Jan 15th – Jan 25th Immersion Trip

Jan 29th – Feb 9th Elective Module 4

Feb 12th – Feb 16th Reading Week

Feb 19th – Feb 23rd Practica and Project Presentations

Feb 23rd – Feb 28th Final Submissions

March 1st – April 30th Internship

May 5th Graduation

The Admissions ProcessThe incoming class was selected through a rigorous admissions process. The call for applications had an overwhelming response with over

700 applications for 35 fellowships. This makes the UFP acceptance ratio on par with its peers and compares favourably with some of the

best institutions in India and around the world.

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ACCEPTANCE RATES

Interviews for a Second Round of Admissions to fill a limited number of additional seats were conducted on June 2nd and 3rd, 2016, with

the final admissions decisions made by June 10th, 2016.

Applicants were expected have at least a

Bachelors’ Degree in any subject or

discipline. The admissions process also

considered non-degree training and

certification programmes done after 10+2

schooling. Those who did not have any

formal education after their 10+2 were also

considered, especially if they had experience

of engaging with formal or informal work in

urban sectors.

Applications were open to Indian citizens,

Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) or Overseas

Citizens of India (OCIs). Applications from

women, people with disabilities and those

from economically and socially excluded

communities were especially encouraged.

Interviews for first round of admissions were

conducted online or over the phone from

May 15th to 20th, 2016. The first admission

decisions were made by May 27th, 2016.

Accommodation

All Fellows will be provided with housing support for the duration of the Urban Fellows Programme.

City Campus Facilities

The UFP is being conducted out of classrooms and studios at the IIHS Bangalore City Campus at Sadashivanagar.

The Faculty consists of several full-time practitioners and researchers who come from a range of academic disciplines and practice domains

A diverse and experienced faculty leads the UFP. As part of the UFP's commitment to bridging theory and practice, the Faculty consists of

several full-time practitioners and researchers who come from a range of academic disciplines and practice domains.

Governance and Policy

· Amlanjyoti Goswami

· Aromar Revi

· Deepak Sanan

· Jayaraj Sundaresan

· Jessica Seddon

· Neha Sami

· Shriya Anand

· Somnath Sen

· Sudeshna Mitra

Human Development

· Amlanjyoti Goswami

· Andaleeb Rahman

· Chandni Singh

· Gautam Bhan

· Swastik Harish

Faculty

Settlements and Infrastructure

· Amir Bazaz

· Gautam Bhan

· Geetika Anand

· Jayaraj Sundaresan

· Kavita Wankhade

· Mohan Rao

· Rajiv Raman

· Sanjay Prakash

· Somnath Sen

· Srikanth Shastry

· Swastik Harish

Environment & Sustainability

· Amir Bazaz

· Aromar Revi

· Chandni Singh

· Garima Jain

· Kavita Wankhade

· Neha Sami

· Prathijna Poonacha Kodira

· Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar

· Toine Van Megen

Economic Development

· Amogh Arakali

· Andaleeb Rahman

· Jessica Seddon

· Partha Mukhopadhyay

· Shriya Anand

· Smita Srinivas

· Sudeshna Mitra

Skill Labs

· Ahona Ghosh

· Andaleeb Rahman

· Arpita Das

· Sandeep Mitra

· Sathish Selvakumar

· D Sivakumar

· Subasri Krishnan

· Vidya Jindal

· Vikas John

· Yashodhara Udupa

Summary of the Class 2016-17The UFP has a total of 30 Fellows in the 2016-17 class. The following charts and tables provide a summary snapshot of their profiles.

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DISCIPLINES

The majority of incoming Fellows have academic backgrounds

in the Social Sciences and Architecture.GENDER

Female(14)

Male(15)

Transgender(1)

The admissions process actively sought applicants who were from backgrounds

where either or both parents did not benefit from higher education.

Schooling only Graduate and above

BACKGROUND

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of incoming Fellows are below 24.

AGE GROUP

Below 24

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DelhiAhmedabad

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CITIES OF ORIGIN

INSTITUTIONS

TISSSatyawati College

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Classes (OBC) 25%

Ahona Ghosh

PG and Diploma in Business Communication

At IIHS, Ahona is responsible for developing a one-point communication and knowledge centre aimed at educating

students, professionals, Indian academia and corporates about IIHS.

Ahona is an independent trainer, having worked with leading hospitals, retail outfits, academia, pharmaceutical and IT

companies amongst others. She has completed a short term project on customer interaction at Pantaloons and a

long-term contractual assignment at Lifeken – Lifetime Health Care. Ahona specialises in soft skill training, customer communication and

patient relationship management. Her fourteen year journey in training college graduates to C-level executives include business

communication classes and interview skills trainings at the Manipal School of Nursing, the Swiss Graduate School of Management and IISc

among others. Ahona started her career teaching communicative English before moving into skill-training and development. Her

specialisation in patient relationship management started in 2000 when Ahona joined Medybiz as their National Head of Patient Care

Management. It was here that she started developing training programs specifically dealing with various aspects of PRM which includes

compliance and governance issues. As Director & Senior Trainer of Academic PEP she was responsible for Corporate Training.

Amir Bashir Bazaz

Ph.D., IIM Ahmedabad; B.E., IIT Roorkee

Amir works on issues at the intersection of economics, climate change mitigation and sustainable development. He

holds a PhD in Public Systems from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a Bachelors' Degree in

Electrical Engineering (with Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Amir is currently a lead researcher

in a 7-year IDRC/DFID funded frontier international research program: CARIAA (Collaborative Adaptation Research in

Africa and Asia). He is also a climate change economist in the on-going CDKN-funded project on 'Reducing resettlement

and relocation risk'.

Amir has been the National Expert Consultant to the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India for the Second National

Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) project and worked as Assistant Professor

(Economics), Symbiosis School of Economics, Symbiosis International University, Pune, teaching courses in Environmental and Development

Economics.

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Amogh Arakali

M.A., University of Mumbai; B.A., St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

Amogh is a Senior Research Associate at IIHS and currently works on research themes of economic development;

governance & public policy and environment & sustainability. His research interests include issues of institutional

governance, resource use, public goods, property rights, commons and urban political economy.

He has been involved with several IIHS programmes including the India Urban Conference 2011, Water Hackathon 2011

and the Seminar on Sustainable Urban Futures in 2012. He assisted in organising the first two editions of the National

Student Challenge and has previously worked as a member of IIHS' communications team. Prior to his joining IIHS, he interned at Grant

Thornton India, the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy and the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Amogh holds a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Mumbai and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He also has interests in information studies, linguistics, cognitive science and science fiction.

Amlanjyoti Goswami

LLM, Harvard Law School; LLB, B.A., University of Delhi

Amlan works on law, policy and governance, including research in land acquisition and R&R as well as knowledge

epistemologies. He is interested in conceptual questions of urban theory, legality and its relationships with space, politics

and culture. His recent research and teaching work is on the political economy of urban land and land regulation, as well

as the legal and regulatory framework that governs urban development.

Amlan has more than a decade of international and domestic regulatory, policy, research and legal experience. At IIHS he oversees the

process of building appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks and enabling institutional sector development for key sectors in India

including urban development, land and housing, municipal institutions, livelihood issues and higher education. He has been responsible for

advising on key higher education sector reform legislation and developing a roadmap for institutional reform; research and advisory on

systemic issues of land governance; drafting municipal and other legislation; as well as research and policy on matters of culture and public

spaces in the urban, where questions of law, culture and politics meet.

Aromar Revi

MBA, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi; LLB, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi; B.Tech., Indian

Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi

Aromar Revi is the Director of the IIHS, and an international practitioner, consultant, researcher and educator with over

thirty years of inter-disciplinary experience in public policy and governance, the political economy of reform,

development, technology, sustainability and human settlements.

He is a member of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), co-chair of its Urban thematic

group, where he leads a global campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). He has been a senior advisor to various

ministries of the Government of India, consulted with a wide range of UN, multilateral, bilateral development and private sector institutions

and works on economic, environmental and social change at global, regional and urban scales.

Aromar is one of South Asia's leading experts on global environmental change & Climate adaptation and mitigation. He is a Coordinating

Lead Author of the IPCC Assessment Report 5 on Urban Areas and co-PI of a 5-year international multi-million-dollar Climate Adaptation

research programme that spans India and Africa.

Chandni Singh

Ph.D., University of Reading, UK; M.Sc., TERI University, New Delhi; B.Sc., Delhi University, New Delhi

Chandni is a postdoctoral researcher working on the CARIAA (Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Asia and

Africa) project. She specializes in researching the interface between climate change adaptation, livelihood

transformations, and rural-urban dynamics. Her doctoral research explored farmer vulnerability and adaptation

strategies to water scarcity and climate change in southern Rajasthan (India). Chandni has worked with several civil

society organisations such as Pragya, WWF-India, and the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) on projects related to

community-based adaptation and natural resource management. Most recently, she led the South Asian component of the Asian Review on

Integrated Landscape Initiatives in collaboration with Bioversity International.

Garima Jain

MPP/UP, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, USA; B.Arch., Sushant school of Art and Architecture,

Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

Garima's areas of research include issues of vulnerabilities and risks particularly in urban areas, migration, climate

change and multi-dimensional urban poverty. At IIHS, she supports the practice team on urban policy projects. She has

led several urban policy projects including those on disaster risk for UNISDR, urban poverty for UNDP and overall urban

policy support partnership with Rockefeller Foundation. She has been instrumental in building and delivering capacity

building programmes for working professionals on various themes including – Integrated Urban Disaster Risk Reduction, Urban India &

Environmental Sustainability, Data Visualisation and Re-imagining the world-class city. Before IIHS, she led design and development projects

for sustainable community habitats with Abaxial Architects Pvt. Ltd. and has worked with the City of Somerville (Massachusetts) as a

graduate consultant for analysing existing and designing new parking regulations. She was a part of the London Organizing Committee of

Olympic Games (2012), where she helped prepare accessibility & inclusion guidelines and led the accessibility management team in the

transportation planning projects.

Gautam Bhan

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of Chicago; B.A. Political Economy of Development, Amherst

College

Gautam has worked extensively on the intersections of urban poverty, housing and social policy in Delhi specifically. He

has written extensively on low-income housing including human development in slums, evictions and tenure rights as

well urban planning and development policy. He has also translated this work on poverty and inequality in urban slums

into policy. He anchors IIHS' role as a National Resource Centre for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Alleviation. In

that capacity, he contributed to the framing of the national urban housing policy – the Rajiv Awas Yojana and worked with several Indian

states to advise on its implementation. He has advised several emergent urban policy frameworks including Housing for All by 2022 and the

Smart Cities framework as part of IIHS' emergent assignation as a Centre for Excellence with the Ministry of Urban Development. He was

also part of the technical advisory group in the previous government in India that was setup to frame the National Urban Health Mission. In

addition to his research and teaching engagements, Gautam has a long history of immersion in urban social movements in Delhi,

particularly in neighbourhood-based movements in low-income communities.

Geetika Anand

Msc, London School of Economics, UK; B.Plan., School of Planning and

Architecture, Delhi

Geetika has experience of working with a diverse set of agencies including the government, education institutions,

NGOs, CBOs, and private sector. She has worked on a number of planning and development projects including

preparation of Master Plans and City Development Plans, Rural Habitat Policy and Rural Tourism Plans. Her current

work involves supporting the Bangalore Development Authority with the preparation of RfP and setting up a GIS cell for

the next Master Plan.

Geetika is currently studying Integrated Urban Water Management and inclusion of sustainability concerns in public programmes like

JNNURM. She has taught as a visiting faculty in School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.

Jayaraj Sunderesan

Ph.D., London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science,

UK; M.Arch., CEPT University, Ahmedabad, B.Arch., College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram

Jayaraj's research interest lies at the intersection of urban theory, urban practice and urban transformation. His primary

research field sites are cities in India, in particular Bangalore and Chennai, and London in the UK. Thematic issues of

interest include urban politics and governance, urban morphology, cities in history, urban commons, urban planning

and design practice, violations and illegalities, ecological transformations, participation, urban activism and communal

geographies. He has taught at the University College London (UCL), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Indian Institute

for Human Settlements (IIHS) and National Institute of Technology.

He has also worked with local governments in London as a consultant on planning, regeneration and urban design policy. He was the

founding director of Architecture and Planning consultancy C-Earth (Centre for Environment Architecture and Human Settlements) based in

Kerala where he coordinated the urban poverty division; and has worked on the heritage conservation of Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Udaipur

forts with Kulbhushan Jain and Meenakshi Jain in Ahmedabad.

Kavita Wankhade

M.Sc., London School of Economics; B.Arch., School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

Kavita is trained in architecture, urban design and social sciences, and her work revolves around settlements-primarily

focusing on the urban and its interface with the rural; and between natural, built systems and socio-economic

dynamics. Her work has involved serious engagement with various state governments in India, multi-lateral

institutions, as well experience in the UK public sector. Some of her recent research and consultancy projects have

included review of the urban sanitation sector in India that contributed to the development of the National Urban

Sanitation Policy 2008; and also impact assessment of the JnNURM in selected urban locations. At IIHS, she is working as Lead Practice and

has anchored the development of a national policy paper on water and sanitation in urban India; carried out monitoring and evaluation of

an urban sanitation project in Katihar (Bihar), providing knowledge support to a national groundwater sanitation nexus programme

(supported by Arghyam, a grant-maker in the water and sanitation sector); and is providing support to the Govt. of Tamil Nadu's roll out of

their state-wide urban sanitation program. She also has managed the International Curriculum Development Project at IIHS, and

co-anchors the infrastructure, planning and design portfolios of the curriculum. She co-ordinated and was a faculty member in the

Programme for Working Professionals in Urban Development (PWP-UD). She is a faculty member in the IIHS team's LBSNAA's Phases IV, III,

II programmes on urban water and sanitation.

Neha Sami

Ph.D., University of Michigan; M.A., Yale University; M.A., Rizvi Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai University; B.A.,

St. Xavier's College, Mumbai University.

Neha Sami studies the urban politics of real estate development and governance in post-liberalization India. Her

dissertation research focused on the political economy of land and governance under conditions of globalisation. Her

current research focuses on the governance arrangements of industrial corridor development projects between Indian

cities like the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. Other on-going research focuses on the politics of implementation of

urban environmental plans, particularly climate change action plans, in Indian cities and on questions of environmental governance. Neha is

now faculty at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bangalore, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of

Michigan, a master's degree in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a bachelor's

degree in Economics from the University of Mumbai. Prior to beginning graduate school at the University of Michigan, Neha worked with

the Boston Redevelopment Authority as an analyst with the Economic Development Division.

Sandeep Kumar Mitra

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ACA); The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (AICWA);

B.Com, University of Kolkata

In a career spanning over 20 years with experiences in Finance, Administration, HR, Legal and IT, Sandeep brings with

him an extensive understanding of the Finance and Information Technology domain. His expertise spans across

Finance – controlling, planning, execution, profitability analysis, project deliverables including providing leadership and

People responsibility. Sandeep is the Chief Financial Officer at IIHS.

Sandeep has managed, run and gained experience in functions that cover the gamut of running an entire organization. He started his

career with BOC India Limited, Kolkata, where he was responsible for accounting and costing including managing banking, treasury, and

Corporate Finance.

He later served in GE Medical Systems in Bangalore, as a CFO of one of its legal entities and managed the Business operations, Finance,

HR. Administration and Legal. In his last assignment in IBM India Limited, he had the opportunity to serve as Domain Expert in Finance

process knowledge. He later went on to build the Financial Management Services Practice as a Practice

Area Leader.

Shriya Anand

MPA, Princeton University; M.A., University of Cambridge; B.A., St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi

Shriya Anand is a faculty member at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, teaching topics related to urban

economic development and quantitative research methods. She also anchors the Urban Informatics Laboratory, which

aims to facilitate access to urban data, and conceptualise alternative and improved forms of data creation, usage and

dissemination. Her recent research and policy consulting work has focused on urban economic development and

inclusive growth. She has also been studying large industrial infrastructure projects such as the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial

Corridor, their relationship with urbanization, and associated choices about development pathways.

She previously worked with the National Knowledge Commission, Delhi, an advisory panel constituted by the Prime Minister of India in 2005

to provide recommendations on how to improve India's potential as a knowledge economy. After that, she worked at the Centre for

Development Finance, Chennai, where she was responsible for expanding the work of the Urban Infrastructure and Governance team.

Somnath Sen

PGDRM, IRMA; B.A., Honours (Economics), St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi

Somnath has managed and led a number of institutional development and strategic advice tasks for governments in

South Asia, Africa and China as well as for private sector, bilateral and multi-lateral institutions, and INGOs. His recent

assignments include assistance to the formulation of India's National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP), Sanitation Rating

of Class I Indian Cities (2010); air and water pollution study for India Vision 2030 (World Bank/MoEF); impact assessment

of World Bank's rural water investments in India; strategy for primary waste collection in Monrovia; multi-sector

monitoring and evaluation for a national public sector capacity building programme in Ethiopia; Economics of Sanitation in South Asia;

Service Delivery Assessments for Water Sector; design of Bangladesh's Urban Governance programme investments; and Public Toilets for

cities in developing countries. Among others, his clients include multilateral agencies (WB, ADB, UNICEF); bilateral agencies (DFID, GIZ,

AusAID, SIDA), INGOs apart from national and local governments. He has extensive field experience in more than 300 districts of 25 Indian

states, various cities in India, and provinces/cities in Ethiopia, Liberia, China, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Subasri Krishnan

M.A., Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi; B.A, Madras Christian College, Chennai.

Subasri has been filmmaker for more than a decade. She also heads the Media Lab of the Indian Institute for Human

Settlement (IIHS).

Her documentary films deal with contemporary politics. Her first documentary film “Brave New Medium” on internet

censorship in South--East Asia, has been screened at film festivals, both nationally and internationally. The award-

-winning “This or That Particular Person” looks at the idea of official identity documents, and in that context, the Unique

Identity number. The film was adjudged as the Best Short Documentary Film at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of

Kerala (IDSFFK), 2013. Her new documentary film “What The Fields Remember” explores ideas of memory, violence and justice through

survivors' narratives of the massacre.

As part of the Media Lab at IIHS, she teaches and curates the Urban Lens film festival. Prior to going to film school, Subasri worked for the

academic journal 'Seminar'.

Sudeshna Mitra

Ph.D., Cornell University; MRP, Cornell University; M.Plan, B.Plan, School of Planning and Architecture

Sudeshna works on urban and regional economic development, particularly the political economy of land and real

estate leveraging in public- private project negotiations. She has researched peri-urban land and livelihood issues,

emerging from city level strategies to attract investments. She was previously a consultant, and worked on highway

projects, airports, industrial parks and Special Economic Zones. She has taught graduate students as Visiting

Lecturer at Cornell University. She also taught Land Economics and co-taught studio projects at the School of

Planning and Architecture.

Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar

Ph.D., Stellenbosch University, South Africa; PGD, University of South Africa; M.Sc., University of Cape Town; BArch,

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

Sumetee's doctoral thesis examines business decisions aimed at corporate environmental sustainability, including

reduced carbon emissions, from the perspective of building resilience in social-ecological systems. She is interested in

the confluence of climate science and climate change policy response, climate change adaptation and mitigation

interventions, energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions for sustainable development, extension of resilience

thinking into trans-disciplinary practice for sustainable outcomes. Sumetee is a consultant with IIHS and is currently a lead researcher in a 7-

year IDRC/DFID funded frontier international research program: CARIAA (Collaborative Adaptation Research in Africa and Asia). She has

previously worked as a design consultant in India and as a policy and strategic development planning consultant and trainer for the South

African public sector. She has taught strategic and development planning to municipal officials and worked on policy analysis of

environmental, development and climate change regulations and legislation, systems analysis of business processes towards reduced

emissions and waste streams, and city development strategies for sustainability.

Swastik Harish

B.Arch., School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

Swastik is a part of the design and implementation team for the IIHS Urban Practitioners' Programme, the executive and

continuing education function at IIHS. His main area of work is around housing for the urban poor, with a special focus

on rental housing mechanisms. Besides this, he is also involved in capacity building programmes around heritage

planning and management, data visualization and green building technologies and concepts. Swastik has earlier been

involved in the planning, research and execution the development of various IIHS campuses, and has also assisted in

the financial modelling for IIHS long term financial projections. He has also contributed significantly to the IT-based Pedagogic and Project

Technology Systems.

In over a decade of work experience, Swastik has founded a start-up architectural consultancy, worked as an independent architectural

consultant and installation artist, and been faculty at many architectural design studios. Besides his experience in his core areas of

architecture and design as well as teaching and pedagogical design, Swastik has technical expertise in physical and virtual modelling

(prototyping), and advanced proprietary and open source software.

Vikas John

MS, Rochester Institute of Technology; MA, Mass Communication, University of Hyderabad; BA, St. Joseph's College of

Arts and Sciences, Bangalore.

Vikas works in the area of educational studies, particularly the experiences of techno scientific knowledge systems as it

intersects with the socio-cultural construction of identity. He is also interested in higher education administration,

research management and the social and philosophical foundations of education. At IIHS, he is also the Manager of the

Research Programme. Vikas is currently earning his PhD in the Educational Culture, Policy and Society Program from the University at

Buffalo, The State University of New York. He has assisted in several small and large research projects. Prior to this he has worked in the

field of communication in various capacities.

Vidya Jindal

MBA, IIM Ahmedabad; BA, Stella Maris College, Madras University

Vidya Jindal has a strong background and interest in strategic HR, organisational development, leadership and

competency development, coaching, mentoring, and emotional Intelligence.

In a corporate career spanning over two decades, Vidya has played varied roles across multiple functions. Starting with

operational roles in software consulting and project management, Vidya over the years made career choices based on

her deep-rooted interest in people and people development. In her last corporate position she was President – HR &

OD at Tata Interactive Systems. Vidya has also been Visiting Faculty at IIM Bangalore (2002-2004) and IIM Udaipur (2014-15).

Yashodhara Udupa

M.A., University of London; B.A, Bangalore University

As a freelance editor and filmmaker, Yashodara's work has not only focused on issues such as human rights, health and

decentralized waste management but also on culture and the city. She has edited a feature length documentary called

Inshallah Kashmir, which won the National Award for Best Investigative Film (2013) in India. At IIHS, she supports the

building of a digital archive of various Indian cities; conducts skill lab/workshops on filmmaking internally and

externally; supports the production and direction of various promotional IIHS films; assists in conducting film

screenings/film festivals and supports primary and secondary research projects undertaken at IIHS. Yashodara's expertise lies in shooting,

editing and video production.

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