Divya is an academician and a researcher in landscape studies, spatial histories and ethnography, interested in landscape and its reciprocity to cultural narratives of Indian rural places. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Her research explores how an earlier peripatetic indigenous community brings an expansive and generational understanding of their mountain-monsoon-forest biome to their present day, more sedentary lives, rituals, and spatial practices in their forest hamlets.
In the last twelve years, she has developed and taught at CEPT University, India, two unique research cum-process-based landscape design studios that advanced her explorations of Indian jungles and forest villages. Her travel-based winter schools in the landscape program at CEPT documented local stories of forests and sacred groves in the Western Ghats mountains, India.
She has presented her teaching and research work at international conferences, including the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, Asian Cultural Landscape Association, UNESCO-Unitwin, ICOMOS, International Federation of Landscape Architects and ISVS, International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements.
In the last twelve years, she has developed and taught at CEPT University, India, two unique research cum-process-based landscape design studios that advanced her explorations of Indian jungles and forest villages. Her travel-based winter schools in the landscape program at CEPT documented local stories of forests and sacred groves in the Western Ghats mountains, India.
She has presented her teaching and research work at international conferences, including the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, Asian Cultural Landscape Association, UNESCO-Unitwin, ICOMOS, International Federation of Landscape Architects and ISVS, International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements.
