About Geeta's Work
I am trained as an architect but have diversified into small-scale livelihood technologies with a focus on community-based processes.
After graduating from MS-University-Baroda, I worked in the fields of energy-in-building and appropriate-technology. I earned my Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada, my research focusing on affordable housing processes and rural micro-energy planning, respectively, My Post-Doctoral studies at University of Guelph, Canada, was on Innovations for sustainability among micro and small enterprises.
Since 2004, I am working on implementation of village-level-bioenergy applications as a step towards bio-circularity in rural areas, through the Canadian not-for-profit CTx GREEN that I co-founded with my partner, Dr. Ramani Sankaranarayanan (seeded through World-Bank’s Development-Marketplace-Award, DM2003).
I was associated with the founding of the Faculty of Architecture at the Sri Sri University, Cuttack Odisha, where I worked on interdisciplinary collaborative learning platforms, with particular emphasis on environmental studies, building ecology, climatology, vernacular architecture, landscape architecture, disaster risk reduction and mitigation, research methodologies, among others.
I am currently working on an action research with Gram Vikas, an NGO in Odisha India, centered on rural settlement growth patterns and their implications on natural resource sustainability,