 Thanks a lot Bhaskar for inviting me to Anant National University. It was amazing to meet new friends and enthusiastic learners. Like I said before, the place has all the ingredients, structure, facilitators and drivers to create an exciting new paradigm of Design. With an amazing vibe at ANU, the possibilities are literally Anant.
Thanks to the IDC School of Design IIT Bombay invite, I presented my doctoral research experience in Design History to the PhD aspirants. My presentation, "PhDing Design History: An Uncharte(re)d Research Journey in India?" elaborated on the research gaps, challenges, opportunities and a few suggestions for new and future PhD scholars. The slides presented are available in this link.
 It was a great opportunity to interact with the community at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar I elaborated on the ideas around Design and Modernity through India's unique post-colonial Design History. Thanks to Prof Manasi Kanetkar at Design & Innovation Centre for inviting me. #design #history #designeducation
Honoured to be speaking at IDC Alumni Awards Talk Series on 23rd January, 2021 | 16:00 hrs.  Image Credit: IDC, IIT Bombay
Co-presented at #ICoRD21 Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay with Raina Singh, Anik Ghosh, Rik Bhattacharjee and Rinki Sambhani. It was an honour to present the project explorations-turned-papers to the Design Research fraternity. It also allowed us to reflect more on the methodological, pedagogical and critical components of the Design Research at Department of Design SPA Bhopal Thanks to all the chairs (Profs Peer Sathikh, Ravi Mokashi Punekar, Mazhar Kamran, Shilpa Ranade) and audience for the valuable feedback.  Today, I presented a lecture, Designama: Shifting Positions of Design in India, at the New York University, 4-5 pm, 18 Feb at IDM, Room #324, 370 Jay St., Brooklyn, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, NYU. Thanks to Ahmed Ansari for hosting me at New York. Today, I reflected on 'Critical Pedagogy in Design in India' in the Panel on Design Pedagogy at College Art Association and Get International Program organised at School of Art Institute of Chicago. Our panel included Pedith Chan (Hong Kong) as the Moderator and presentations by Dr Priya Maholay-Jaradi (Singapore) and Eiman Elgibraan (Saudi Arabia). Thanks to Ali Mahfouz and Pearlie Rose Baluyut for the images.
Presented two short papers during the Hyderabad Design Week at World Design Organisation @worlddesignorg ' s Research & Education Forum, Humanising Design, at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad on 10 October 2019. My first paper, Towards an Ontological Expansion of Design: Thematic Threads to advance the next Design Education Paradigm, elaborates three thematic threads, which Design Education structures and networks can pursue to advance the next paradigm. Further, through researching these under-explored positions, and exploring their inherent components, it can work towards creating new forms of knowledge in design research. As the Ahmedabad Declaration of 1979 remains a significant event in the discourse of design for development, my second paper, Design for Development 2.0? Revisiting the Ahmedabad Declaration, illustrated how the pedagogy, project and discourse of IDC and NID were conceptually aligned to the spirit of Ahmedabad Declaration of 1979. Image Credits: WDO, Anmol and Harshali
Paper presented at Lancaster University in September 2017 In the larger developing world context, the idea of ‘care’ is most visible in Gandhi’s ideas. Though Gandhi was not a designer in established notions, as an excellent communicator and critical political activist, his sense of ‘care’ was reflected in most of his thoughts and actions. He famously argued for the idea of ‘Sarvodaya’ or ‘Well-Being of All'; a thought deeply influenced by the work of John Ruskin. This action can be seen as an act of care for fellow human beings and their human rights. From Indian political history, when Gandhi dreamt of India’s future, the ‘care’ for various factors remained central in his vision. Be it caring for the human labor or towards reclaiming the environment, or cultural values to the village structures. In the domain of design and care, the idea of ‘khadi', a handmade fabric, reflect his greater ideas of Sarvodaya. Khadi’s making involves care for the human labor and environment at various levels of its existence. As a non-violent symbol of protest, ‘khadi’ even cared to take care of the opposition, an act rarely seen in the history of political revolutions. ’Sarvodaya’ as a thought might have lost in the political unfolding of history in India and the developing world, the sense of it remains at the politics of it, though more selectively. To answer the question, “What might politicized versions of care look and feel like?”, Sarvodaya can be a caring and careful answer. The study would like to unearth the idea of Sarvodaya as a political version of Care and Design. >>> Read more
Today, Dr. Suptendu P Biswas and me, presented the context, framework and outcome of the recently concluded Search Workshop 16 at WIEZ2017. We represented Trust for Search and our respective institutions at this International Symposium organised by IIT Kharagpur and Columbia University. This is another step towards the dissemination of the idea of Landscape Urbanism and our workshop on the subject. Next in queue is a publication and an exhibition of all the proposals. Thanks again to all the associated; partners, mentors and speakers, and especially the participants of the Search Workshop 16, who will carry forward the baton. As the coordinator of the Search Workshop 16, I would like to thank each and everyone involved, participants and mentors, speakers and associates, sponsors and partners, technicians and vendors, who contributed in making Search Workshop 16, a meaningful and memorable experience. It was 21st January 2016, when I went to meet Dr. Suptendu P Biswas at his home and first conceptualised this workshop. Aur fir log judte gaye, kaarvaan badhtaa gaya...  Meeting one of the towers of Design History, Prof. Jonathan Woodham at ICDHS 2016 at Taipei  |
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