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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Biswas S. P., and Tewari S., (2018) Blue Lines of Kolkata. Kolkata: Trust for Search. ISBN: 978-8193693605.
Journals
Encyclopedia Entries
Book Chapters
Technical Reports
Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed and published)
Working Papers (Peer Reviewed, unpublished)
Online Publications
हिन्दी के प्रकाशन
INVITED Presentations & Engagements
Invited Presentations
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Biswas S. P., and Tewari S., (2018) Blue Lines of Kolkata. Kolkata: Trust for Search. ISBN: 978-8193693605.
Journals
- Rodgers, P. et. al. (2019). The Lancaster Care Charter. Design Issues, 35 (1). DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00522. Document.
- Tewari, S. (2018). The Design Journey of Prof. Sudhakar Nadkarni by Mandar Rane. The Design Journal, 21(5), 759–765. DOI: 10.1080/14606925.2018.149586. Review Article.
- Tewari, S. (2018). How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today, by John Thackara. Design & Culture, 10 (1), DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2018.1430997. Review Article.
- Tewari, S. (2007). Dhabas: the real face of glossy urbanism. Indian Architect and Builder, Emerging Urbanism Issue. ISSN 0971-5509.
Encyclopedia Entries
- Tewari, S. (2016). Jugaad. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-011
- Tewari, S. (2016). Product Semantics. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-011
- Tewari, S. (2016). Kalaa. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-012
- Tewari, S. (2016). Athavankar, Uday (1945-). _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596178-BED-ONLINE-007
- Tewari, S. (2016). Nadkarni, Sudhakar (1936-). _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-023
- Tewari, S. (2016). Landscape Urbanism. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-015
- Tewari, S. (2016). Industrial Design Centre (1969-). _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-008
Book Chapters
- A Jugaad Theory of Design
- A Gandhian Theory of Design
- A Rasa Theory of Design
- Tewari, S. (2018) Urban Landscape of Bithoor: Between its Pratha and Praja. ed. Biswas S. P., Tewari, S. Blue Lines of Kolkata. Kolkata: Trust for Search. ISBN 978-81-936936-0-5.
Technical Reports
- Tewari, S., Sridharan, N., Pandey, R. U., & Wadwekar, A. (2020). Community, Craft and Culture: Learning Resilience from the Ziro Valley. Retrieved from https://www.breucom.eu/mod/page/view.php?id=737
- Tewari, S. (2018). Report: DHS Strategic Research Grant. Design History Society, UK. www.designhistorysociety.org
- Batra N., Tewari, S., Bakyayita A., Nkambule E. (2007) Yard Improvement. Rubbo A. & van den Busch J. (eds.), the Global Studio 2007: Changing Mindsets, Global Studio, July 2007
Conference Papers (Peer-Reviewed and published)
- Tewari, S. (in press) From Problem-solving to finding the Meaning: Communication Turn in Indian Design Education, Futuring Design Education, IIT Delhi
- Tewari S., Singh R. (2022) Chawalgatha: Creating awareness about the indigenous rice crops of India through communication design. Published in: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and DesignVolume: RSD11
- Kulshreshtha K., Tewari S. (2021). Re-learning Puberty: Minimising Period Shaming in Urban Schools. Humanizing Work and Work Environment, 19th International Conference, Indian Society of Ergonomics, IIT Guwahati, December 2021 (in press)
- Tewari, S. (2021). Towards an ontological expansion of design: Thematic threads to advance the next design education paradigm. Humanizing Design: WDO Research and Education Forum 2019, (September). Montreal: World Design Organisation. ISBN 978-1-7770192-0-4.
- Tewari, S. (2021). Design for development 2.0? Revisiting the Ahmedabad Declaration and discourse of design in India. Humanizing Design: WDO Research and Education Forum 2019, (September). Montreal: World Design Organisation. ISBN 978-1-7770192-0-4.
- Bhattacharjee R., Tewari, S. (2021) Competitive Branding of Sustainable Domestic Products: A Product Semantics Approach. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_55
- Ghosh A., Tewari, S. (2021) PowerPost: A Framework for Designing Visual Political Communication. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_56
- Singh R., Tewari, S. (2021) Visual Alankars: Toward a Decolonized Visual Design Framework. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_45
- Sambhani R., Tewari, S. (2021) Dots and Lines: Indian Folk and Tribal Art Inspired Activities for Kids. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_58
- Tewari, S. (2018). Design in Visions : Visions of/on Design from the Events, Declarations and Policies in India. In O. Moret (Ed.), Back to the Future: The Future in the Past (11th ICDHS) (pp. 47–51). Barcelona: University of Barcelona. ISBN 978 8491681564.
- Tewari, S., Prabhakar, N., & Popli, S. (2017). A Gandhian Framework for Social Design: The Work of Laurie Baker and Hunnarshala. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Vol. 66). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_29
- Tewari, S., & Jyoti, A. (2017). Holistic socio-environmental design: Practices through making, craft, and historicity. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Vol. 66). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_4
- Tewari, S., & Priya, K. R. (2017). People, chair, and value(S): A qualitative inquiry into the material lives. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Vol. 65). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_3
- Tewari, S., (2017). Sarvodaya - A political version of care and design. Does Design Care…? An International Workshop of Design Thought and Action, (October). Lancaster: Imagination, Lancaster University.
- Tewari, S. (2015). Laurie Baker: A model for Sustainable Architectural Design. Conference: Cumulus Mumbai 2015: In a Planet of Our Own - a Vision of Sustainability with Focus on Water, 1–10. Mumbai: IDC IIT Bombay. ISBN 978-81-931260-1-1.
- Tewari, S. (2015). Looking through the album art of independent rock bands in India. In S. Karahasanolu (Ed.), Musicult’15: Music and Cultural Studies Conference. Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing. ISBN 978-605-4841-93-6
- Tewari, S. (2014). The process of coalescence in the architecture in India. In N. Çatak & E. Duyan (Eds.), Movements & Outsiders: ARCHHIST ’14 / History of Architecture Conference Proceedings (pp. 89–97). Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing. ISBN 978-605-5120-71-9.
- Tewari, S. (2013). Urbanism in Gurgaon. In J. P. S. Nunes & P. Costa (Eds.), Recomposing the Urban Fabric Centralities and Peripheries Revisited. Lisbon: ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. ISBN 978-989-732-152-8. DOI: https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/4307.
- Tewari, S. (2007). Informal in Formal : Mushrooming of Dhabas next to BPOs / MNCs in Gurgaon. Emerging South Asian Urban Design Practices and Paradigms, (June). Colombo: KU Leuven (Asialink/Asiaurbz).
Working Papers (Peer Reviewed, unpublished)
- Tewari, S. (2024). Moving from Problem-solving to Scenario-framing: Leveraging Al for Design. Digital Pedagogies in Design: International Research Symposium. School of Design and Innovation, RV University. Bengaluru.
- Shinde, R., Tewari, S. and Xaxa, A. R. (2024) Crafting Indic Letterforms for the Grounded Digital Turn. Digital Pedagogies in Design: International Research Symposium. School of Design and Innovation, RV University. Bengaluru.
- Tewari, S. (2020). Critical Pedagogy in Design in India: A reflection. College Art Association’s Annual Conference at SAIC Chicago on 11th February 2020.
- Tewari, S. (2019). जीरो घाटी: गांधी के ‘सपनों के भारत’ की एक जीवंत कार्यशाला . Gandhi Prasang (Gandhian Eco-philosophy Seminar) EPCO, Bhopal on 1st October 2019.
- Tewari, S. (2019). Design, Continuums, and Development in a Periphery’s periphery: A tale from the Ziro Valley. ‘The Cost of Design’: 2019 Design History Society’s Annual Conference at Northumbria Uni. on 6th September 2019.
- Tewari, S. (2017). Raw, Repair, Refurbish: A ‘Re-use’ Design Culture from India. Making and unmaking the Environment’: 2017 Design History Society’s Annual Conference at University of Oslo on 8th September 2017.
- Tewari, S. (2017). Swadeshi vs. Multinational: The Product Semantics of Feminine Beauty Products in India. WONDER: Women in Design Research Seminar at Oslo and Akerhus University of Applied Sciences, Oslo on 6th Sep 2017.
- Tewari, S. (2017). Investigating the Fields of Design Culture. D’logues Research Scholars Day 2017, IIT Kanpur on 27th March 2017.
- Tewari, S., & Roy, S. T. (2016). The Story of a Chair: Transformations in the Design Culture. 10th International Conference on Design History and Studies, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, on 26th Oct 2016.
- Tewari, S., & Jyoti, A. (2015). Holistic Design Principles driven by Socio-Environmental Visions - Indian Subcontinent. Design History Society’s Annual Conference, California College of Arts, San Francisco, 12th Sep 2015.
- Tewari, S. (2015). Expediting from Genesis: a journey from point to space at Re-Thinking Basic Design Pedagogy. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad on 27th March 2015.
- Tewari, S. (2014). Post-Liberal Design Culture of India. Design Culture Conference, South Denmark University at Kolding, September 2014.
- Tewari, S. (2013). Hybrid as an accommodating culture: The different phases in Architecture of India. TASMEEM 2013: Biennial Art and Design Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar, March 2013.
- Tewari, S. (2012). Neo-Urbanism in a Post Millennial Indian City. “Urban Dynamics and Planning 2032”, Integral University, Lucknow, April 2012.
- Tewari, S. (2011). Three Users of Gurgaon. Axis Institute of Architecture, Kanpur Sep 2011.
- Tewari, S. (2007). Reality behind False Façades: Urban Villages in Gurgaon. People Building Better Cities Conference at Global Studio 2007 Wits University, Johannesburg, July 2007.
Online Publications
- Tewari, S. (2020, January 9). Report: DHS Conference Bursary. Design History Society’s Website.
Design History Society. UK. - Tewari, S. (2018, June 9). Report: DHS Strategic Research Grant. Design History Society. UK.
- Tewari, S. (2017, April 8). Feature: A tryst with the Past. Design History Society. UK.
- Tewari, S. (2017). Mumbai/ un viaje, una búsqueda, un hogar en la metropolis [Spanish, tr. by Milan, R.]. Bifurcaciones Magazine. Chile.
- Images and words like rhythm and blues Of Indian Origin. [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://ofindianorigin.co/
हिन्दी के प्रकाशन
- दैनिक वार्तालाप | स्पंदन, िसतम्बर २०१९, एस. पी. ए. भोपाल
- चतुर नगर - होशियार शहर | स्पंदन, िसतम्बर २०१८, एस. पी. ए. भोपाल
- आ भी जाओ अल्लाह, आ भी जाओ राम | अंतस, जनवरी २०१६, आई. आई. टी. कानपुर
- पतझड़ | स्पंदन, सितंबर २०१५, एस. पी. ए. भोपाल
INVITED Presentations & Engagements
Invited Presentations
- Gandhi, Design and Sustainability, Terra Carta Design Lab Workshop at NID Ahmedabad, 7 April 2024 (online)
- Paradigms of Intersections: AI x Design, Special Lecture at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, 5 March 2024
- Paradigms of Design, Special Lecture for the Doctoral Group, NID Ahmedabad, 8 Feb 2024
- Design History as Research, Special Lecture for the Doctoral Group, NID Ahmedabad, 7 Feb 2024
- Bauhaus and Ulm, Special Lecture for the Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad, 6 Feb 2024
- Design History Foundations, Special Lecture for the Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad, 5 Feb 2024
- From HfG Ulm to India, Lecture at Anant National University, Ahmedabad, 20 Oct 2023
- Design History as a Methodology, Lecture at Anant National University, Ahmedabad, 19 Oct 2023
- Design, Modernity and India: An Entangled History (online), Lecture at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 18 Dec 2021
- Beyond Eameses: The unfolding of Post-colonial Design in India (online) Lecture at Izmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, Izmir, Turkey, 22 Nov 2021
- Design History, a Design Research Methodology? (online) for Doctoral Students at the IDC School of Design, 7 Sep 2021
- Paradigms in the Indian Design Education (online) Doctoral Students Session at NID Ahmedabad, 29 June 2021 & 23 July 2020
- Design History: Historiography, Varieties and Frameworks (online) Doctoral Students Session at NID Ahmedabad, 28 June 2021 & 22 July 2020
- Me after IDC / IDC before me (online) at IDC Alumni Award Talks, IIT Bombay on 23 January 2021
- Developmental Paradigm of Design in India, Golden Wattle | Porous Frontiers, RMIT Australia presented on 9th Sep 2020 (online)
- Designama: Shifting Positions of Design Education in India at Department of Technology, Culture and Society, New York University Tandon School of Engineering on 18th February 2020
- History of Modern Design Education at NID Ahmedabad on (Multiple Times)
- Introduction to Design History at NID Ahmedabad (Multiple Times)
- Landscsape Urbanism at Search Workshop 18 an interdisciplinary workshop organised by Search Trust New Delhi and Dept. of HSS, IIT Kharagpur, 21-27 December 2018 Kolkata
- Design in Visions: A Work in Progress, a presentation for the PhD Scholars at NID Ahmedabad on 16 May 2018
- Design History: Frameworks and Methods, a presentation for the PhD Scholars at NID Ahmedabad on 15 May 2018
- Contemporary Design Culture of India at Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad on 16 March 2018
- Two Approaches on Theorising Design Culture at Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad on 17th March 2017
- Let’s Retrospect the Smart a presentation on the history of Smart Cities at National Convention, Agra organised by Architects Association of Agra, 25th February 2017
- Learning from Search Workshop 16 (with Biswas, S. P.) at International Symposium on Water Urbanism and Infrastructure Development in Eco-sensitive Zones, organized by IIT Kharagpur & Columbia University New York, at Kolkata on 7th January 2017
- Towards a Smarter Coach: A Design Proposal a presentation for upgrading railway coaches at Railway Designs and Standards Organisation, Lucknow: May 2011
- Portfolio Presentation at 52nd CIPSEM Workshop at Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technishce Universtät Dresden, November 2010
- Yard Improvement: The Global Studio Project at Studio output and proposal presentation at Faculty of Architecture, AKTU, Lucknow: Jan 2008, and at SSAA: Aug 2007 (with Batra, N.)