Divya Shah is an academic and researcher in landscape studies, spatial histories and ethnography, interested in landscape and its reciprocity with cultural narratives of Indian rural places. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
Over the last twelve years, she has developed and taught at CEPT University in India, two unique process-based landscape research and design studies that have advanced her explorations of Indian jungles and forest villages. He was part of a team of forest village experts from the Khasi village in Meghalaya, northwest India (known for its living root bridges). Her recent winter travel-based course in the CEPT landscape program documented the folklore and myths of the sacred groves of the Western Ghats.
He has presented his teaching and research at international conferences, including the European Council of Schools of Landscape Architecture, Asian Cultural Landscape Association, UNESCO-Unitwin, ICOMOS, International Federation of Landscape Architects, and ISVS-10, International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements.
Over the last twelve years, she has developed and taught at CEPT University in India, two unique process-based landscape research and design studies that have advanced her explorations of Indian jungles and forest villages. He was part of a team of forest village experts from the Khasi village in Meghalaya, northwest India (known for its living root bridges). Her recent winter travel-based course in the CEPT landscape program documented the folklore and myths of the sacred groves of the Western Ghats.
He has presented his teaching and research at international conferences, including the European Council of Schools of Landscape Architecture, Asian Cultural Landscape Association, UNESCO-Unitwin, ICOMOS, International Federation of Landscape Architects, and ISVS-10, International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements.
