AT A GLANCE
Pooja Chandrashekhar Ugrani
Area of Practice: Spatial Design, Origami, Poetry
OVERVIEW
Pooja Ugrani, a Phd Scholar at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, graduated from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai, has a PG diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha, Mumbai. She has completed her M. Arch. Degree by research from Mumbai University where she analysed the expression of ownership at the boundaries of domains in urban mass housing. Her area of interest includes how human behaviour and the urban built environment impact each other.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pooja-ugrani-b25abb28
https://grandceremony.academia.edu/PoojaUgrani
Education
B.Arch. Degree, M.Arch Degree, PhD student at SMI
Work Experience
She has over 15 years of experience, working in Mumbai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad
INTEREST AREAS
observing cities, territoriality, community housing, residential redevelopment
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Part of the Spatial Design cohort. Conducted Masterclass on How to conduct interviews (ethics), Memory and storytelling, Mobius strip, hexaflexagons, tessellations and skins, Poetry and temporal spaces. Works intensively on projects with students on projects related to origami and paper
Teaching Portfolio
She has facilitated the following courses at SMI
Origami and Built Structures – Workshop
Fantastic Places and where to find them – GS
Material exploration – GSK
Where do we find poetry? – GS
The performance of story telling – GS
Spatiality of mapping memories – GS
Design Context: a bee in my bonnet – GS
Creative/Professional Practise
She runs a brand called Sound of Paper, that teaches the art of origami to children as well as adults as well as retails products in boutique stores in Bangalore. She has conducted workshops for design students in the past and plans to explore architecture through origami.
She is partner at Charcoal Tree LLP along with Ar. Mallikarjun, that provides architectural and design services.
Her book of poetry, My Home is Dissent was published by Poetrywala, Mumbai in February 2026. Her poetry has been published in The Punch Magazine, Cafe Dissensus Everyday, Mom Egg Review (New York), Hākārā, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine (Hong Kong), The Tiger Moth Review (Singapore), The Alipore Post, The Woman Inc – TWI Poetry, and the RIC Journal (Jaipur-Paris).
When she is relaxing, she sings Hindustani classical music and plans for a trek to the Himalayas.
