Richa Narvekar

Richa is a Spatial Designer and Visual Artist that is interested in the connect between Art, Architecture, Urban and Interior Design. She earned her Bachelors in Architecture at CEPT University, India and was a British Council scholar to the Masters in Architecture, Urban Design program at The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.

Her practice based out of Toronto, Canada and Goa, India is multidisciplinary, with a focus on projects in Interior Design. She has led several design and build projects as a Senior Designer for firms in the Greater Toronto Area.
Her own design work is centered on an exploration of vernacular, critical regionalist, decolonial and anti-capitalist approaches to material and ways of making.

She has authored theses on the Sensorial impoverishment/ Sensorial richness of lived environments, on Apparatuses of Power in Urban Space and the Colonial history embedded in the built form of Goa, India. Her projects teaching undergraduate Students in Environmental Design, explore nexuses of Folk Art, Urban Design, Architecture, Interior Design and Film, developing an academic inquiry into the urban struggle of Space v/s Place.