User:Shekhar
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SHEKHAR KRISHNAN is a researcher and technologist currently pursuing his doctorate at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the History and Anthropology of Science Technology & Society (HASTS). His research is focused on civic institutions, industrial technologies, and urban space in colonial Bombay and western India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
He studies, uses and hacks on free and open source software (FOSS) and geographic information systems (GIS) and helps develop digital archiving and mapping tools for urban research, and is evangelist for Zotero, a project of the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University.
In Mumbai, he pursues his research projects as an Executive Member of CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), a collaborative practice of urban designers, researchers and artists working on community housing and mapping projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
He has been Visiting Faculty at the Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (2003-2005), was the founding Coordinator then Associate Director of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) (2001-2003), and was the founder and Joint Convenor of the Mumbai Study Group at the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai (2000-2002). He has also worked in Bangalore as a consultant with the Srishti School of Art Design & Technology and with Mahiti Infotech (2004-2005).
