“Public Art for Whom?”: Art and its Exclusionary Publics in Delhi
Funding period: 15 March 2025 – 15 December 2025
Type of funding:
International Fellowship
Nian Paul is an urban feminist geographer with expertise in public spaces, the geography of urban artistic interventions, socio-spatial justice, visual culture, gendered geographies of work and leisure, and qualitative methodologies. She completed her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), on urban materialities and representational dynamics of public art practices in Delhi.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (India), working on a British Academy-funded project, “Transgressing Good Cities: Decolonising City Narratives for Just Urban Futures” (https://de-colab.com/), in collaboration with University College London, UK, and Radboud University, The Netherlands.
As a USF International Fellow, Dr Nian will spend nine months at University College London (Institute of Advanced Studies) and will work under the mentorship of Dr Lakshmi Priya Rajendran (Associate Professor, The Bartlett School of Architecture). During the fellowship, she intends to work on publishing her doctoral research findings on the spatial implications of creativity-led urban transformation in Delhi (India), developing a comparative framework with reference to cities in the Global South.
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