Session Speakers
Shreyas is the Co-Creator and Director of Living Labs Network & Forum (LLNaF), working with communities and institutions across the Dakkhani Region in India. An architect, researcher, and academic with over 17 years of experience, his work focuses on place-based research, community-academia collaborations, settlement studies, southern urbanism, climate adaptation, and urban livelihoods.
Dr. Simin Patel, also known as MISS BOMBAYWALLA, is the founder of Bombaywalla Historical Works, an organisation that showcases Bombay’s built environment and social history. Simin’s forthcoming book on Irani Restaurants dives into the world of Irani strongmen and dons and the cafes they operated from. She was awarded a New India Foundation Fellowship for the book manuscript. Simin holds a DPhil in South Asian History from the University of Oxford. She was a Clarendon Scholar at Balliol College.