top of page

Webinar

Green Black Minimalist Business Webinar Poster (14).png

Dr. Alokeparna specializes in the field of urban mobility, inclusive mobility design and political ecology of urban transport. She looks at transportation and physical mobility through intersectional lenses of design, sociology, and geography. She received her Ph.D. from Dipartimento Architettura e Studi Urbani (DAStU) at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and researched the socio-spatial impacts on non-transport land use of a mega-transport project in the context of Delhi. She has an in-depth understanding of qualitative research methods as applied to public spaces, livelihood + mobility choices and stakeholder consultation. She has engaged in fieldwork within urban peripheral communities to study matters of dislocation, re-settlement, and disrupted mobility narratives. Additionally, she also researched the changes and delays in the construction timeline of a high-end housing project in response to the growth and development of the transport project. Alokeparna is passionate about teaching and views the classroom as a dynamic space for intersectional knowledge production. Since the last five years she has been actively developing pedagogical methods using an integrated approach of technical and humanities-based tools and techniques for teaching and learning of various aspects of urban transport, mobility, and public spaces. She has developed and taught seminar courses such as Space and Place, Audits and Assessments, Community Mobilities and Access, Society and Health and studio courses such as Physical Mobility Atelier.

Professor Arshi Parashar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, India.  She previously taught at Prince Sultan University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from the year 2014 to 2019. Her research interests span urban design and human behavior, public spaces, placemaking, and walkability. Her published works include urban design and its effect on user's activities in public spaces. Her doctoral work from IIT Roorkee is focused on the role of urban factors in affecting women's engagement with public spaces. She has also explored different physiological signal wristband applications in studying people's experiences in public spaces.

bottom of page