Saurabh Tewari
Assistant Professor Department of Design Indian Institute of Technology Delhi email: st[at]iitd.ac.in Connect on ResearchGate Academia ORCID Google Scholar |
Bio
Saurabh Tewari, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Design at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, where he leads DeSH Lab (Design Studies/History Lab). Education Saurabh Tewari studied Architecture (B. Arch, 2003-08) at Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon and Communication Design (M. Des, 2008-10) at IDC, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He obtained his doctorate in Design from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2021 for which he received the "Outstanding PhD Thesis Award". His thesis, "Design Paradigms: A Post-colonial Design History of India", intends to be foundational in the under-articulated South Asian and Indian Design History. Experience Saurabh has a teaching and research experience of 15 years elaborating the discourse on Design History, Design and Architecture Studies. In 2018, he co-initiated the Master of Design programme at the School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal with an integral focus on Socio-Cultural Design. He has published various threads of Design, sustainability, and urbanism. He has travelled and presented at academic events worldwide, including India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Germany, Portugal, Qatar, Denmark, Taiwan, Norway, the UK, Spain, Austria, and the USA. He has co-edited India's first publication on the emerging field of Landscape Urbanism, Blue Lines of Kolkata (2017). Awards Saurabh is a recipient of various research and travel fellowships from national and global institutions, including the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the USA in 2007; Department of Science and Technology MHRD, Government of India 2008-10; UNESCO/UNEP/BMU TU Dresden, Germany 2010; DRONAH Gurgaon, 2011; IIT Kanpur, 2015-17; Design History Society, UK, 2017 and 2019; Society of Architectural Historians, USA, 2018; Environmental Planning & Coordination Organisation, MP, India, 2019; College Art Association & Getty Foundation, 2020, Distinguished Alumnus Award by IDC School of Design IIT Bombay in 2020 and most recently, Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from IIT Kanpur, TU Delft–IIT Delhi Collaborative Grant for sustainability research, and most recently the Global Minds Research Fellowship from the University of Antwerp, which focuses on extreme urbanism. Activities This October, he is hosting South Asia's first Design History and Design Studies Conference, ICDHS 14: Cultures of Design, at IIT Delhi. Recently he hsoted the SiDE Symposium at IIT Delhi 2025. |
Saurabh Tewari
Saurabh Tewari