Mansi Shah
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Mansi Shah

Adjunct Assistant Professor
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About Mansi Shah

Mansi Shah is an architect and urban designer, and a founding member of the Productive Urbanism Collective, a practice focused on ecology-led landscape design and food-based urban practices. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Bachelor of Urban Design program. Her work spans teaching, research, and practice, with a strong interest in pedagogy, landscape ecologies, and productive landscapes.
Her education includes a degree in Bachelor of Architecture (2007) and Masters in Urban Design (2009) from Doums Academy, Milan, Italy. She is also a certified permaculturist (December 2025). Her professional practice is rooted in landscape design, with projects ranging from residential landscapes to ecology-driven and food-based environments.
  • Landscape Design
  • Teaching
  • Urban Design
  • Planting Design
  • Climate & Design of the Built Environment — S‑2026
  • Urban Parkscapes — S‑2026
  • Food and the City — M‑2026
  • Food and the City — S‑2025
  • Understanding the City Studio — M‑2025
  • Urban Landscape Futures — M‑2024
  • Professional Training — S‑2023
  • Internship — S‑2022

Conference

  1. Mapping Common Voids: Ahmedabad Chowk Networks. Paper presentation: History and Conservation, As If People Matter, Melissa S., Nikita S., Mansi S., 1 – 2 August, 2017 at CEPT University
  2. Untamed cities: Tales of Urban Animals Research in Art, Design and Culture, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, 21 – 22 December, 2018
  3. Relevance and Continuity of Wood in the Kath khuni Architecture in the Mountainous Region of Himachal Pradesh, India. WWD Symposium and IUFRO Forest Products Culture Colloquium Session at Sendai, Japan
  4. Scaling up, scaling deep: Negotiating scales for productive urban landscapes. Scales of Change, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Symposium

  1. Rebel Bodies Rebel Cities: Narrative cartographies of contested territory Cartographies of Becoming: Mapping the Other Lives of Urban Spaces
  2. The sustainability of indigenous building craft practices: kath-khuni architecture of Himachal Pradesh Crafts and craft traditions in Tibetan and Himalayan architecture | 24 Feb 2021

Journal Article

  1. Architectural and Cultural Dimensions of the Sacred: Wood and Stone Temples of the Western Himalaya Bharat Dave, Jay Thakkar, Mansi Shah INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage), New Delhi
  2. Being and Belonging in the Mountains – Indigenous Architecture of Himachal Pradesh, India Bharat Dave, Jay Thakkar, Mansi Shah archithese
  3. Details of Resistance: Indigenous Construction Systems of Himachal Pradesh Bharat Dave, Jay Thakkar, Mansi Shah Context: Built, Living and Natural (DRONAH)
  4. Indigenous Building Traditions of Himachal Pradesh Bharat Dave, Jay Thakkar, Mansi Shah ABACUS
  5. Interpreting a City through a Planning Lens V. Herlekar, Mansi Shah City Observer Journal
  6. The King’s and Queen’s Tomb in Ahmedabad: Cartographies of contested heritage precincts Victor Cano Ciborro, Mansi Shah ZARCH
  1. Ahmedabad City Water Walks – Of Water, Birds and Beings Dipani S., Renu D., Mansi Shah, Vrushti M. VEDITUM
  2. Ahmedabad City WaterWalks – Sabarmati Beyond the Barrage Dipani S., Renu D., Mansi Shah, Vrushti M. VEDITUM
  3. Unit Eco Warriors: Edible to Productive Landscapes Mansi Shah, Chandrani Chakrabarti City Observer Journal
  4. The Himalayan Vernacular: Kath-khuni Architecture Mansi Shah, Jay Thakkar Sahapedia
  5. Ahmedabad Chowk Networks Melissa S., Nikita S., Mansi Shah My Liveable City

Book Chapter

  1. Kath-khuni Architecture of Himachal Pradesh: Continuity, Change, and Challenges Jay Thakkar, Mansi Shah Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Book

  1. Rebel Bodies Rebel Cities Victor Cano-Ciborro, Mansi Shah CEPT University Press

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