Akshar Gajjar is an architect and researcher and is currently a PhD student at EPFL Lausanne. His research transects architectural material production, ecology, labor and territorial change. He studied architecture at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and MAS in Urban and Territorial design at EPFL Lausanne and ETH Zurich. He is the author of Living together: More-than-human ecologies for architectural thinking with Dr. Sonal Mithal. He has presented his work at the American Association of Geographers annual conference and Annual Conference on South Asia amongst other places.