Studio Topologic is the personal studio of Kirthan Shekar, a spatial design researcher with a background in architecture and urbanism. His work focuses on the transformation of cities and territories, engaging with critical urban questions for just transitions. His interests lie in climate resilience, post-capitalism, political ecology and the environmental humanities, explored through cartography, design experiments and public engagement.

He is currently a design researcher at Vereniging Deltametropool, a think tank in Rotterdam for spatial planning and design in the Netherlands and the Eurodelta. He is also an architect in India, working on small projects with earth-based materials. His work explores the agency of design in territories with high socio-ecological and climatic vulnerability, through spatial and institutional strategies and integrated research and education in architectural and territorial design.

He graduated cum laude from Delft University of Technology in 2024, specialising in Urbanism, and worked on a design research project in the Delta Futures Lab. Previously he was a designer-researcher at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bangalore, working on architectural design, research documentation and dissemination for exploring materials and building technologies.