Professor Ed Hollis is Personal Chair, Interior Design, University of Edinburgh. He studied Architecture at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities; and practiced as an architect for six years, first in Sri Lanka, in the practice of Geoffrey Bawa, at that time the ‘grand old man’ of Sri Lankan Architecture, famous for his garden of follies and ruins at Lunuganga; and then in the practice of Richard Murphy, well known for his radical alterations to ancient and historic buildings in and around Edinburgh. In 1999, Edward Hollis began lecturing in Interior Architecture at Napier University, Edinburgh, working with students both in the design studio, and in more theoretical disciplines. In 2004, he moved to Edinburgh College of Art, where until 2012, he ran undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Interior Design. In 2012, Hollis became Deputy Director of Research across Edinburgh College of Art, co-ordinating our submission to the Research Excellence Framework 2014 in Art, Design and History of Art. He is now Director of Research ECA, working across the school assisting staff in developing research interests and projects of their own.
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Kamalika Bose is an urban conservationist with experience in heritage- oriented planning and advocacy, education and research. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a SAH-Getty International Fellow and was Assistant Professor at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. She obtained a Master’s in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University. Kamalika has worked at Historic Districts Council, New York and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. She has authored three books, including ‘A History of Interior Design in India, Vol 1: Ahmedabad,’ published by CEPT University. She was Research Associate for ‘Architecture in India: Since 1990’ by Rahul Mehrotra which informed the seminal exhibition ‘The State of Architecture: Practices & Processes in India’ in 2016 where she was Project Manager. Her independent work focuses on architectural and urban heritage - currently as consultant to The Cha Project for Kolkata’s Chinatown and the Murshidabad Heritage Development Society. Kamalika is a consulting expert to the ICOMOS World Heritage Unit, is on the advisory of Kolkata Architecture Foundation and is a Visiting Faculty at KRVIA, Mumbai.
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Meera Godbole-Krishnamurthy has lived in the Philippines, France, and the United States. She studied art and architecture at Oberlin College and Columbia University, and received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1992. She has studied writing in workshops at Stanford University, the University of Iowa Summer Festival, UCSD, and the La Jolla Writers Conference. She has taught at the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego. Since moving to India in 2006, she has been an architecture educator, conducted writing workshops, and been a contributor to Metropolis magazine. She now lives in Mumbai and is Editor-in- Chief of Saffronart. She is the author of two novels: Balancing Act (Zubaan/Penguin 2009) based on architecture and motherhood, and Gardens of Love (Speaking Tiger 2018), an unusual combination of interconnected illustrated stories. Her next architecture themed novel is presently under construction.
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