Shweta Sundar is an architect and urban planner. In this episode we dig in to her experience of working with a team which worked with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on drafting National Guidelines on Temporary Shelters for families affected and Training Masons for Hazard Resistant Construction in Jammu & Kashmir.

Shweta is currently pursuing her Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. Trained as an architect in at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, she has four years of practical, research and policy experience working in the field of post-disaster housing reconstruction, affordable housing, informal settlements and environmentally sustainable architecture designs, materials, and construction techniques. She is the cofounder of Lokal Habitat Labs, an architecture + urban research do-tank based in India. She is interested in understanding how the myriad lived-realities of communities inhabit rural and urban areas, and ways to empower them with the knowledge, opportunity and agency to inform and shape the built spaces that they inhabit.