Scientific Assistant
Akshar Gajjar is an architect and urban & territorial designer and is currently a scientific assistant at THEMA. His research transects architecture, urbanism, ecology – focusing on post-industrial ruins for their potential of multispecies collaborative survival. He studied bachelors in architecture at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and MAS in Urban and Territorial design at EPFL and ETH Zurich. He is coauthoring a publication Better together: More-than-human ecologies for architectural thinking with Dr. Sonal Mithal and has presented his work at 2023 American Association of Geographers annual conference.