Partners - KCA

Ravi Kaimal

B. Arch, SPA, New Delhi

Fellow, Indian Institute of Architects
Board Member and former Chair, Fabindia School founded by William Bissell of Fabindia
Visiting faculty in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Former Chairman, Habitat Forum, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
Former India representative of Congress of International Modern Architects (CIMA) based in New York

Ravi Kaimal is a veteran architect with decades of expertise delivering high quality projects for top clients in India. Ravi has the rare quality of developing long-term trusting relationships with his clients and enjoys repeat business. Ravi’s interests go beyond architecture and environment to Art Direction and photography.

Ravi Kaimal has been the past chairman of the Fabindia School trust where he served for 15 years. Both KCA partners Ravi Kaimal and Sudeshna Chatterjee are deeply passionate about education and school design and have been involved with school trusts.

Ravi is a passionate advocate for the environment and is a founder of the South Delhi based Citizen’s Alliance (CA), which is a collective of citizens who desire to bring about change by impacting urban policy and governance. CA generates awareness among residents about their rights and empowers ordinary citizens to demand an efficient delivery of services, civic amenities and security from the Government.

The group is currently focused in the Greater Kailash-Alaknanda-CR Park Area of South Delhi but continues to draw citizens from across Delhi NCR for its environment focused campaigns.

Sudeshna Chatterjee

B. Arch, M. Arch, PhD (USA)

on child friendly cities

Member, Indian Institute of Architects
Member of the Executive Board of the International Play Association
Visiting faculty in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Member Doctoral Review Committee, SPA, Bhopal
Member of the Editorial Review Board of the peer-reviewed, international journal "Children, Youth and Environments" and the "International Journal of E-Planning Research"

Sudeshna Chatterjee, founding partner and advisor at Kaimal Chatterjee & Associates, is an internationally regarded urban designer and researcher.

Sudeshna has special expertise in designing children’s environments. Sudeshna is also a globally acknowledge thought leader on child friendly cities. A firm believer in evidence based design, Sudeshna engages in action research involving children and adolescents to generate knowledge and evidence on child friendly cities and communities. She also often uses participatory design techniques in her architectural and planning work.

Given Sudeshna’s special expertise and passion for making living environments child friendly particularly for vulnerable children, KCA incubated the non-profit organization Action for Children’s Environments (ACE) to engage in research, advocacy, planning and design to improve children’s environments globally. Sudeshna serves as the CEO of ACE and has successfully led many evidence-based projects globally for improving children’s living conditions.