Prasad Khanolkar (Assistant Professor) is an urbanist with a background in Architecture, Planning, and South Asian Studies. His work focuses on the incongruous and collaborative operations through which marginalized urban residents assemble lives and habitats in Southern cities. He has worked in several cities in different capacities, including Mumbai, Gurugram, Portland, Nairobi, Guwahati and Addis Ababa. He is the author of Passages of Play in Urban India: People, Media, Objects and Spaces in Mumbai’s Slum Localities (2022).