I returned to India after graduating and have worked in architectural firms, offering my services as an Urban Designer and Architect. As a rapidly developing country, India has a lot of large scale urban developments.<\/p>\n
My experience on the MA course has helped me propose design which is site-specific, contextual to the surroundings and heavily backed by analysis – a huge advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Studying at Cardiff was a life-changing experience – from getting the right exposure to current trends and concepts in the field, to the interesting mix of fellow students. The lecturers successfully ignited our minds. Since completing the course I tend to see cities in a whole different perspective, preferring to walk to explore the urban fabric rather than opt for transport.<\/p>\n
For the research-based design proposal, I consciously chose a topic and site in my home town. I came up with a design proposal which addressed the cityscape and further condensed into design guidelines which could be adhered to in similar scenarios across the city. I am currently working towards the application of this with the help of the City Council.<\/p>\n
In the future, I plan to start teaching what I learnt at Cardiff by being associated with a reputed university. I\u2019d also like to start a research cell which could work towards collaborating with students and the city authorities on real projects, hopefully resulting in a better city to live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sagar Shinde is an urban designer and architect.","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,73,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-humanities-social-sciences","category-geography-and-planning","category-our-alumni"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/8146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}