Abhijit Ekbote

Abhijit Ekbote

Co-founder & Director, Collaborative Design Studio LLP

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Trained as an architect and urban designer, he has a keen interest in engaging with the practices and processes that are constantly shaping our urban environment. His early works include slum improvement projects in a NGO & community driven mode. As a Program Manager at Aga Khan Agency for Habitat India he contributed towards working on the housing need assessment for displaced communities in Salamieh, Syria. He has worked as a Secretary of the MMR Societies, which were formed by the MMRDA for the protection of natural environment and built heritage in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). In the capacity of a consultant he has worked on a NIUA funded project for shallow aquifer management in the Thane Municipal Corporation region. He has worked with SPARC on a World Bank funded project on participatory mapping of health and sanitation amenities in the self-organised nagars of Dharavi and Deonar. Currently he is working on a UNDP funded project titled ‘Closing the loop’, which deals with the design and implementation of a decentralised sewage and waste water treatment system using nature based solutions for vulnerable settlements located in close proximity to inland waterbodies in rural MMR.