Nikhil and Lalitha publish their collaborative work on Rising Waters
Published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, “ENDURING HARM: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence and the Administration of Urban Injustice” analyzes past and present practices of governing urban waters and how these entangle poorer and radicalized populations in Mumbai and Philadelphia.
Sejal Mehta publishes book on the Superpowers of Mumbai’s Marine Life
Superpowers on the Shore by Sejal Mehta explores the alluring intertidal lifeforms of the Indian coastline.
State to conduct first-ever population study of dolphins around Mumbai coast
Sightings of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins prompts a detailed study across the MMR coast.
Mentor, inspiration, and friend Anuradha Mathur passes away
We at Inhabited Sea mourn the untimely passing of Anuradha Mathur on 26th February 2022, in Philadelphia.
Rohit, Lalitha and Nikhil awarded a research grant by Azim Premji University
Azim Premji University’s Research Funding 2021 Projects & Awardees included Stories of Climate Action: Democratizing Planning in Mumbai’s wetscapes.
Inhabited Sea on scroll.in
Researchers of the Inhabited Sea collaborative published short essays on scroll.in about their work
Penn Today feature: “Cities in Water”
Kristina Garcia authors a detailed feature on Inhabited Sea in Penn Today
Intertidal Living featured in Mid Day newspaper
Shaunak Modi and Sejal Mehta’s research project, Intertidal Living, is highlighted in Mid Day’s Friday dossier.
Inhabited Sea on Paper Planes
Paper Planes, a design publication features Inhabited Sea on its insta Feed. With the monsoons just around the corner… what might it mean to design the city amidst these two gradients of wetness?
The Monsoon is coming home
Dilip da Cunha offered opening remarks for Monsoonal Multiplicities, a five-year project exploring the entanglements of the monsoon and cities in India, Bangladesh, the UK and Myanmar.
Examining the design of India’s coastal communities from a transdisciplinary lens
Inhabited Sea’s Nikhil Anand spoke to Penn Global about the collective’s transdisciplinary research approach and the wider imaginaries of living with water it hopes to animate.
To weather climate change, Mumbai must embrace its wetness
In an interview with The Wire Science’s Sukanya Charuchandra, Nikhil Anand emphasized that Mumbai must adapt to a ‘new normal’ of living in wetness.
Penn in India: Cities in Hot Water
As part of the “Penn in India - Faculty Speaker Series” Anuradha Mathur moderated a conversation with Nikhil Anand about how urbanization might be rethought with water and amidst the instabilities of climate change.
The city needs to find other ways to accommodate rainwater
Read Tanvi Deshpande’s article including perspectives from Nikhil Anand about how concretization, real estate development, and other practices produce flood in Mumbai.