Rahul Srivastava works closely with urban practitioners to use his learnings and skills in anthropology as an applied tool for civic action, media and research. He works with urban planners and architects, by documenting socio-economic dynamics of neighbourhoods, combining ethnography with architectural practice and locality-specific field explorations with participatory planning. The co-created practice of ‘Urbanology’ with Matias Echanove started in 2008 in which they brought and combined their learnings from past projects in India and from around the world into a specific setting - Dharavi Mumbai where they continue their engagements with the neighbourhood to use learnings in a range of urban contexts - from Geneva to Bogota and from Mumbai to Paris. Srivastava has published extensively in academic, journalistic and popular formats. He is also a screenwriter and media producer based in Paris.