Niraly MANGAL
Niraly Mangal is a doctoral researcher in Black Soldier Flies for Circular Urban Food System project at Singapore-ETH Centre. She is a doctoral candidate at Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (DGESS), ETH Zurich. Trained as an architect and an urban designer, she obtained her Master’s degree in Urban Design from the National University of Singapore.
Niraly is currently working on Co-design approaches to investigate design, network, and operational solutions for integrating insect-based food waste recycling systems in high density urban environments. With her background in architecture and urban design and experience with Design-Research, her doctoral project combines current knowledge in urban planning, participatory planning, and social acceptance.
She also collaborates with the Agropolitan Territories module at Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global as the research coordinator to support the development of a digital planning tool called ur-scape. She works in close collaboration with organizations such as Swiss Secretariat of Economic Affairs, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, to support development of planning support tools and the associated urban data-systems to address themes of gender equality, female empowerment, pandemic resilience, heritage sensitive planning, and urban resilience.
Publications
- View Niraly’s publications external page here
Research interests
- Food waste recycling
- Circular food systems
- Digital planning tools
- Participatory Planning
Education
- MA in Urban Design, National University of Singapore
- BArch Sardar Patel University, India
Social Media
- LinkedIn: external page Niraly Mangal