Assoc Prof Diganta Das

Diganta Das is an Associate Professor at Humanities and Social Studies Education, NIE, Nanyang Technological University. He is an urban studies scholar whose research/teaching work focuses on the sustainable development of urban Asia, especially with respect to the evolving dynamics of urban waterscapes, smart urbanism, and smart city development. He is currently involved in two research projects; the first one examines waterscapes in a rapidly urbanizing Asia with extensive fieldwork in India, Singapore and Cambodia. The second involves empirical investigations on genealogies of smart cities in India and South Africa. He regularly deploys visual methods to capture vignettes of everyday urban life in Asia.