Kaiwan Mehta, has studied Architecture, Literature, Indian Aesthetics,
and Cultural Studies. He is a theorist and critic in the fields of visual
culture, architecture, and city studies. He is completing his doctorate at the
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru, under the aegis of
Manipal University; he has now published as well as exhibited his research work
and ideas internationally. Since March 2012 he has been the Managing
Editor of Domus India (Spenta Multimedia) and
is associated with Jnanapravaha (Mumbai)
where he set up the Art, Criticism and Theory programme as well as the
Architecture, Resources and Culture segment. He has been elected as the Jury
Chairman for two consecutive terms (2015–17 and 2017–2019) for the
international artists’ residency programme across 11 disciplines at the
Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. He is also the co-founder and
director of Arbour Research Initiatives in Architecture and has been the
Executive Committee member with INTACH, Mumbai. Additionally, Mehta has also
co-curated with Rahul Mehrotra and Ranjit Hoskote the national exhibition on
architecture – “The State of Architetcure: Practices and Processes in India”
(UDRI, 2016) at the NGMA, Mumbai. Another book by the author is Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood.