Malini Krishnankutty

Malini Krishnankutty is an architect and planner with wide experience in spatial planning in India. She did her PhD (2018) in Habitat Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and graduate degrees (M. Arch & M. City Planning 1994) from the University of California, Berkeley. Currently Adjunct Associate Professor at CUSE, IIT Bombay. Over the last two decades, she has served as a consultant on several urban planning projects including the Draft Development Plan for Mumbai 2014-34 (since superseded) as well as the recent Regional Plan for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region 2016-36. In 2008-09, she worked with the Chief Minister’s Task Force and helped draft the Regional Plan document, RPG-21, for the state of Goa. In 1993, she spent time with renowned urbanist Jaime Lerner, while interning at the Institute of Research and Urban Planning (IPPUC) in Curitiba, Brazil, learning first hand his principles of ‘urban acupuncture’ for sustainable cities. Since 2008, she has co-initiated a community of sustainability practitioners - Gubbi Alliance for Sustainable Habitat.