Mallika Mahesh

I'm an architect, architectural historian, and interdisciplinary researcher. I am currently associated with CEPT University as a Teaching Associate. My engagement with LLNaF began in 2022 as a learner with my masters thesis. I am interested in the study of the built environment and how its architecture offers cues to comprehend its transformation through time. My curiosity about built environment history lies at the intersection of architecture-materiality-ecology-society and the impact that they have on the functioning and sustenance of cities and societies. I have earlier engaged with the micro-context of the Police Action and I am further interested in exploring ecology in urban spaces, names of places, material practice,  home-based network for/by women, uncared monuments, Bawdi, ecological systems in heritage sites, festivals of Deccan, educational reforms, caste-based practices  as some of the micro-contexts.