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Anshika Suri is an architect and urban development planner who works as the Programme Manager for the interdisciplinary masters “International Cooperation in Urban Development-Mundus Urbano” and as a postdoctoral researcher for the “Graduate School of Urban Studies-URBANgrad” in the Department of Architecture at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She holds a doctorate from the Department of Architecture at TU Darmstadt and has completed her bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, India, and a Joint European Double Degree Master (M.Sc. Mundus Urbano) in both International Cooperation in Urban Development from the TU Darmstadt, Germany, and International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Building on her interest in rethinking cities and infrastructures through a gendered perspective, her PhD project contributed to the understanding of the urban sanitation challenge faced by women in informal settlements in the cities of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. Her current research interests focus on investigating the inclusion of an intersectional perspective in urban development and planning discourses.

Publications

Suri, A. (2021) Investigating Gender Inequality through the lens of infrastructural inadequacy: A case study of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. In MORE: Expanding Architecture from a Gender-Based Perspective. III International Conference on Gender and Architecture Proceedings. Amoroso. S; Equal Saree; Novas.M Vilaplana. A (eds). didapress, ISBN 978-88-3338-118-3, Download

Suri, A. (Forthcoming, 2022) Placing oppression (with)in public infrastructures: Tracing and intersectional relationship between gender, violence and technology in Gendered Infrastructures, Truelove, Y & Sablok, A (eds.), West Virginia University Press

Suri, A. (Forthcoming, 2021). Everyday interactions with sanitation infrastructure in cities of East Africa: Looking beyond women’s vulnerabilities. In: Translating the Networked City: Urban Infrastructures in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, eds. Monstadt, J; de Bercegol, R & Bon,B. Routledge.

Čamprag, N. & Suri, A. eds.(2019) Three Decades of Post-socialist Transition. Conference Proceedings. Download

Čamprag, N. & Suri, A.eds. (2019) Three Decades of Post-socialist Transition. Conference Programme. Download (opens in new tab)

Suri, A (2019) “Women’s Everyday Encounters with Urban Infrastructure Regimes: Tracing an Intersectional Relationship” in De Coss-Corzo, A., Ruszczyk, H.A. & Stokes, K. (eds.) 2019. Labouring Urban Infrastructures. A workshop magazine. Download (opens in new tab)

Suri, A (2018) "Women and the Urban Sanitation Challenge: Tracing an intersectional relationship" PhD diss., Technische Universität, Darmstadt, 2018. Download (opens in new tab)

Suri, A (2017) “Everyday encounters with infrastructures in cities of East Africa: A critical feminist technology assessment of gender inequality in sanitation service provision”, in Towards Urban Resilience - Proceedings - International Workshop - Barcelona 2017, eds. Hekmati, B; Mendoza Arroyo, C. & Rudolph-Cleff, A. 2017, TUprints. Download (opens in new tab)