OUR COMMUNITY
NIPUN PRABHAKAR / ARCHITECT/ DESIGNER/ PHOTOJOURNALIST
Founder/initiator
Nipun Prabhakar is an Architect, designer and photojournalist based in Bhopal and Delhi. He works closely with communities in South Asia, where he designs
built structures and documents stories at the intersection of ideas, artefacts, culture, transformation, and the built environment.
Nipun has forged partnerships with leading academic institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Institute of Development Studies (UK), and the University of Michigan, collaborating on diverse research and documentation endeavours.
SIMRAN CHANNA/ ARCHITECT/ DESIGNER
Core Member
Simran Channa is an Architect and designer hailing from the city of Bhopal. She has been a core member of the Dhammada collective since 2021. Simran also has expertise in Hospitality and furniture designs.
NILESH SUMAN / ARCHITECT / TOWN PLANNER
Founding member/core member
Nilesh is an Architect and Urban Planner who has been part of our journey since day one. He has a zoom lens for a mind that can switch from micro scale to macro scale in a flash.
He holds a degree in architecture from SPA Bhopal and a master’s in urban and rural planning from IIT Roorkee. Besides architecture, Nilesh runs a successful planning practice in Indore.
Interns
CURRENT
NUDIA AUFIA,
Yogyakarta, Indonasia
PAST
KRUTIKA ASHTEKAR,
Madhya Pradesh, India
MOHIT BANSAL,
Punjab, India
SANIKA KEDAR,
Maharashtra, India
ATHARV GOEL,
Madhya Pradesh, India
PRAKASH KUMAR RANJAN
Bihar, India
People we collaborate with
