Aditya Sawant is an architect and urban designer and practices as a researcher and academic in Mumbai. He is particularly interested in issues related to housing for low-income groups in urban India and was the research director for the State of Housing India exhibition held in Mumbai in 2018. He completed his Bachelor’s in Architecture from the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture (KRVIA), Mumbai University, and his Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He currently works on research projects about housing with the Architecture Foundation India and is an assistant professor of urban design at KRVIA.