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Sandeep Paul is an urban designer and academic with a focus on research induced practice. With an experience of working with public organizations in designing public infrastructure, Sandeep has engaged in preparing design guidelines, public campaigns and advocacies. He has led research projects authoring papers and articles around urban design, pedagogical practices which have been presented in public as well as university lead conferences and forums. His focused initiatives also stem from reviewing guidelines, best practices, policy and statutory norms along with conducting gap assessments, preparing analytical frameworks.
He is trained to lead programs on sustainable urban mobility, Non-Motorized Transport and Walkability by International Urban Training Centre, South Korea (2011), and Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) program, organized by GIZ in Beijing (2008). He has co-convened a break out session at World Placemaking week, in Amsterdam, 2017 organized by Project for Public Spaces. He has participated and presented in national and international forums, engaging workshops about sustainability through research, practice and advocacy on street design, publicness and sustainable mobility.
Under his core association with The Urban Lab Foundation, he has anchored research proposals, public campaigns like ‘Right to walk’ and engaging citizen with bus through ‘Bus ki baat’ campaign. The event was organized during the World Sustainable Transport weeks in November 2024 (first edition) and 2025 (second edition).
As an academic, he has been associated with CEPT University and Anant National University mentoring young minds since 2015 and interspersed sustainability in diverse forms of coursework. He engages in learning pedagogies that enable and sensitize students about current challenges of urbanity like streets with publicness, climate change, shrinking public realm and degeneration of public spaces. He has been conducting research on publicness in public spaces, sociability and cherish a balance between research and practice.