An architect and urbanist practicing and teaching in Mumbai, Rupali Gupte is a founder member of the Collective Research Initiatives Trust that works on research and practice in urbanism and a partner with RRarchitecture101, a design practice. She is interested in tactical urban conditions and design interventions. Her works include, among others studies of post industrial landscapes and housing types in Mumbai, a multimedia novel on a semi-fictional history of Mumbai’s urbanism, a story-map installation on the mill lands of Mumbai, and other design projects in the city of Mumbai.
Gupte has a Masters Degree from Cornell University with a major in urban design and minor in architectural theory and criticism; and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture, Mumbai.