Introducting the Team at UERO

Urban and Environmental Research Organization (UERO) was realized after several cups of coffee and constant discussions about urban issues in the city and across the globe. It has idealized with the vision to attain a deep rooted understanding of our cities and the process of continuous transformation which needs immediate attention. UERO believes that transformation is inevitable while innovative and sensitive urban insertions can prove to be very effective. At UERO, every research project has a strong theoretical understanding that leads to practical, sensitive and innovative design solutions. 

Sameera Rao, Ashlesha Kale, Samruddhi Raje, Saadiya Rawoot  ( From Left to Right)

Ashlesha kale is a Mumbai based Architect, has keen interest in writing on grass root  Urban Issues. She also loves to teach basic design and experiment with students on various techniques of design. She has been a jury in various Architecture schools in Mumbai and Pune. She also loves travelling and believes in the fact that a good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. She has travelled in various parts of India such as Jaipur, Delhi, Pondicherry, Auroville, Jodhpur, Udaipur ,villages of  Maharashtra,Mumbai,Pune, Karnataka,etc and world such as spain, Europe, USA, China, Hongkong, Seoul, Dubai. She has been a speaker on urban morphology conference in china. She also loves reading theories on urban issues and is in the process of finding a new theory on urban issues for the present time. She is a urban design post graduate from CEPT and is presently heading the Masters Program in Urban Design at D.Y.Patil College of Architecture, Mumbai. She is also the Principle of Research and Publications, UERO. 

Sameera Rao  a graduate in Landscape Architecture from Ball State University, Indiana and an urban designer by heart is an associate at UERO. She teaches at D.Y.Patil College of Architecture with a socialistic and humanistic approach to design.  She believes in challenging the existing systems and creating new alternative approaches to design to create habitable living environments. She strongly believes that design is everybody's business and the city dweller has a crucial role in the evolution of his environment. Some of her research interests are Public Spaces in the City, Informality as an Urban Form, Design Thinking and the Role of Research in Education. 

Saadiya Rawoot and Samruddhi Raje are the young and dynamic urban researchers of UERO with a passion to discover the secret behind the evolution and the constant growth of cities. They are curious and anxious to learn the existing theories and understand the metamorphosis through observation, analysis and design.