Rohan Shivkumar is an urban designer and architect interested in the social issues that shape usage of and infrastructure around built spaces. In collaboration with Avijit Mukul Kishore, he has delved into an exploration of Indian modernity that encompasses a look at the country’s changing citizenry and evolving ideas about how architecture defines notions of home, spotlighted in their recent film Nostalgia for the Future, which was part of Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019-2020), screened at Documenta 14 (Athens, 2017) and Dhaka Art Summit (2018) and awarded the Best Documentary Award at IDSFFK, Trivandrum. Shivkumar has served as principal of his own architecture and interior design firm since 2002 and is the Dean of Bachelors at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture, Mumbai. He has deep roots in academia, regularly giving lectures, publishing articles, and curating film programmes. His other films alongside Kishore are Vertical City (2010), Electric Shadows (2016), Squeeze Lime in Your Eye (2018) and Lovely Villa – Architecture as Autobiography (2019).
Auroville Film Institute 