Kaiwan Mehta, is a theorist and critic in the field of visual culture, architecture, and city studies. He is currently the Managing Editor of Domus India and heads the doctoral programme in Architecture at CEPT University. Kaiwan writes prolifically on architecture and city issues and has curated many significant exhibitions. He is also the author of two books: Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood and The Architecture of I. M. Kadri.

Ìn this podcast, Kaiwan Mehta, portrays the dynamic relationship between architecture and history as seen through the biographies’ of neighbourhoods, in this case, Bhuleswar and Kalbadevi in Mumbai. He talks about how reciprocation of ideas, experiences of migrants, labourers, and citizens forms the genesis of a space. Kaiwan argues that a neighbourhood is expanded from the concept of space to the concept of time (history) and in doing so neighbourhoods have more potential than that of the nation space to reconcile conflicts.

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