I am intrigued by the mythic cities we create within the actual cities we inhabit. As a student and teacher of design, I am drawn to ideas of anarchy on a grand scale; ironic and incredible mutations of spaces. My design training and practice have fed my curiosity while giving me some tools with which to engage and render the absurdities and curiosities of my time and location.Working with students and youth from urban communities in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and New Delhi, I try to express the ways in which built form and space create the setting in which we are the dramatis personae. I want to encourage narratives that are culturally and politically responsive. Public engagement that reflects our fantasies of ourselves and how that awareness shapes our destiny.My endeavour is for my own voice to grow to bring dramaturgy to the extremities of the real and virtual spaces we inhabit as we shape the world to come. I hope to provoke new spaces that emerge from the teeming density of perpetual aspiration in these cities of dreams