Devashree Shah is an architect who graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master of Architecture II degree in 2023. She has worked internationally with firms such as Serie Architects, IHCD Boston, and LOHA Architects. Her academic and professional work is centered around affordable housing, exploring new modes of living in response to our changing contexts. Devashree’s research centers on a value shift in the mode of operation for architects, specifically looking at repair as a means to sensitively and sustainably enact the agency of architects. She is pursuing a project focused on the repair of affordable housing (Chawls) in Mumbai, with field studies and projected imaginations as its core components. She co-authored the book, ‘Architectures of Transition: Emergent Practices in South Asia’ along with Rahul Mehrotra and Pranav Thole, for the State of Architecture in South Asia project(which she is also co-curating). Her project, ‘Thrive - Dual-Use Housing,’ was featured in the exhibition, ‘Inside Out,’ curated by Dan Borelli at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her collaborative project titled ‘5 Axis Ceramic Additive Manufacturing Applications for Evaporative Cooling Facade Modules’ was exhibited at the Harvard Ceramics Lab and presented at the eCAADe 2022 conference in Belgium and is a part of the consequent publication.