About Productive Urbanism Collective
Productive Urbansim Collective was established with the purpose of bringing together like-minded individuals and practices in the fields of urban design research, landscape design, urban agriculture, food design, mapping, and cartographies. The collective aims to create a collaborative environment where members can share their ideas, knowledge, and expertise to advance research and innovation in these domains.
Looking ahead, PUC aims to become a truly collective entity in coming years that is defined by the shared values and goals of its members. It also hopes to support young researchers and collaborate with industry for providing solutions. Some of the projects involving Mansi Shah were done prior to the establishment of the research collective and are not directly connected to it. However, these projects are still significant building blocks in the evolution of the collective’s ideas and can inform its future projects and direction.
Formed in Nov 2022, it hopes to become a space for connecting, interacting, building ideas, supporting new research, offering solutions, and a space to connect with practitioners.
Collaborations: Projects are coming together of many minds – designers, experts and collaborators – each shaping the work in visible and invisible ways. Grateful for the opportunity to work alongside such incredible people.
Saloni Gajjar is a permaculturist and a landscape designer based in Ahmedabad. She runs a regenerative farm project – The rooted circle where she brings together clean food, community, education and experiences around food, nutrition, human + ecological well being. With her landscape practice she designs outdoor spaces to create close to nature experiences, incorporating food and habitat for all beings. Her previous work in hospitality design focuses on regionally appropriate design, local materials and crafts, and rethinking the meaning of modern luxury. She has worked on public art installations for events like Chetak festival at Sarangkheda, the grand amdavad carnival, and permanent wall mural at Nadabet seema darshan, Gujarat.
Soha Gandhi is an Urban Designer graduated from CEPT University in Ahmedabad. Her work and research currently revolves around ecological planning, water management, and creating productive landscapes. She is deeply interested in exploring practices that combine urbanism and ecology as mutually interdependent systems. She is working as Landscape designer and Researcher at Metabolic office. She is also a collaborator and co-partnering in projects at Productive Urbanism Collective since May 2024.
Collaborations
(before and post PUC)
