Santosh Kumar Ketham is a practicing architect, educator, philanthropist and researcher at Innsbruck University, Exparch, Hochbau, Austria. He is the founder and director of School of Collectively Building in Austria, NGO Thinking Hand and Studio Ketham's Atelier Architects. His work and talks inspire and empower people while contributing to the reform of neglected communities. Currently, he serves as an external faculty member at Exparch, Innsbruck University, where he teaches timely and important topic Climate Responsive Architecture for Bachelor and Master Students. He has taught design, architecture, and urbanism at various international universities in India and Austria and has been honoured with numerous international awards and recognitions. Additionally, he has been invited as a lecturer, chair conference and critic at several renowned organisations and institution, including IITH, NIFTH, SPAV, JNAFAU, HITS, UIBK, UNIAK, Josh Talks and Amps. His work has been featured in prominent media outlets such as Deutsche Welle Documentary, 3Sat, ORF TV, ArchitectureLive, Shoutout DFW, The Hindu Newspaper, The Times of India and others. He is the editor of the book Speculative Designs: Rethink Mumbai Flooding (April 2025), Sustainable Six Designs (July 2025), Rethink Austria Flooding (August 2025) and further invited editor for the Socio-Cultural Theory Journal (SIP), published by UCL Press and AMPS (Sep 2025). In 2023 he was nominated as someone who has the potential to be a candidate for a Loeb Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Teaching: Climate Responsive Architecture

Websites:
SOCB: http://www.schoolofcollectivelybuilding.com
Studio: http://www.kethamsatelier.com
NGO: www.thinkinghandngo.com