20122024

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Biography

Dr Tanvi Maheshwari is an architect and urban designer, and currently a research fellow in the Informal Cities Lab at Monash University. Her work spans a wide domain across academic research, consulting and industry-based practice, focussing on planning support tools, futures research, scenario buildings and design thinking methods. Her research modality is primarily collaborative and transdisciplinary, operationalised through impact based, action research projects.

Tanvi's doctorate and ongoing research focusses on urban design and planning for transportation infrastructure. Her PhD research explored the impact of the advent of new transportation technologies such as vehicle automation on the built enironment. She is currently a co-investigator on a Research Project at Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, to study adaptive planning methods for land use and transportation infrastructure. 

Prior to her appointment at Monash, Tanvi was the Associate Director for Research at Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre. She has previously worked at Synthicity and Autodesk Inc as a user researcher for the development of planning support tools. She is also a co-founder of arch i Platform in India, a nonprofit organisation for research and practice in sustainable development.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Education/Academic qualification

Architecture, Doctor of Science, An Urban Design Response to the Technological Shift in Transportation: How to conduct urban design with vehicle automation, sharing and connectivity, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich) (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)

Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture, School of Planning and Architecture (Delhi)

Urban Design, Master of Urban Design, University of California Berkeley

External positions

Co-investigator, Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure, Future Cities Laboratory

20222025

Research area keywords

  • Urban Design
  • Planning support tools
  • Transportation
  • Transdisciplinary research
  • Urban science

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