Courses taught
During the course of my academic engagements, I have co-ordinated multiple design studios within Spatial, Interior & Experience design some examples of which include Habitat design, Hospitality, Food and Retail design, Community and Educational environments and design for exhibition and performance.
Apart from offering Speculative Design & Design Fiction studio modules that focus on Global South Design Futures, other courses undertaken (outlined below) span Fundamentals of Design, History and Theory of Design, Film theory for Spatial design, Design thinking and Process, Spatial Morphology and Operations & Narrative drawing and Spatial representation.
I have also been an Undergraduate & Postgraduate Dissertation Mentor for students of Interior and Interaction Design across universities.
Objects - Bodies - Spaces
Product / Exhibition courses
January 2023 - May 2023
Narrative Objects
B.Des Product Design
2nd year Sem 03 + 3rd year See 05 students
FD, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
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July 2023 - December 2023
Upcoming studio:
Museums of Obsole-Scenes
B.Des Interior Design
Final year Students
FD, CEPT University, Ahmedabad​
Foundation Courses &
Design Studios
January 2022 - May 2022
Visual Syntactics
Foundation Year
1st year Sem 02 students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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January 2022 - May 2022
Fundamentals of Design
Design Representation
Foundation year
1st year Sem 02 Students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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Speculative & Discursive
Design Studios
January 2021 - April 2021
Food Environments of the future
M.Des Interior Experience Design
1st year Sem 02 students
UID: Karnavati University
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January 2020 - May 2020
Speculative Environments, India 2050
w/ Samhita Gandhi
B.Des Interior & Furniture Design
3rd year Sem 03 Students
UID: Karnavati University
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Narrative Drawing &
Spatial Representation
February 2022 onwards
Visual Storytelling for Interaction
M.Des Interaction Design
1st year Sem 02 students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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May 2019 - April 2021
Film theory + Design Theory: Cinematic storyboards for spatial narratives
B.Des Interior & Furniture Design
3rd year Sem 05 & Sem 06 Students
UID: Karnavati University
Spatial Objects &
Furniture
January 2021 - April 2021
Interior Graphic Communication
M.Des Interior Experience Design
1st year Sem 02 students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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May 2019 - April 2021
Craft studies for designed objects
B.Des Interior & Furniture Design
2nd year Sem 03 Students
UID: Karnavati University
Design Fiction for Global South Design Futures
January 2023 - May 2023
Speculative Realities - India 2050
Final Year
B.Des Building Products & systems
FD, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
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October 2022 - November 2022
Design Fiction Course Module
Alternate Indian Ecologies
PG Diploma Students
MIT Institute of Design, Pune
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Mentoring Interaction
Design Studio Projects
August 2021 - December 2021
Redesign website for Social enterprises
M.Des User Experience Design
1st year Sem 01 students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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January 2020 - May 2020
Interactive Narrative Experiences
based on SDGs
M.Des Interaction Design
1st year Sem 02 Students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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History & Theory of
Design
September 2021 - February 2022
Evolution of Art, Craft & Design
Foundation Design Students
1st year Sem 01 students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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May 2019 - April 2021
Global Interior Styles through history
B.Des Interior & Furniture Design
2rd year Sem 03 Students +
M.Des Interior Experience Design
1st year Sem 02 students
UID: Karnavati University
Spatial Morphology &
Conditions
February 2022 onwards
Spatial forms & planning
M.Des Interaction Design
1st year Sem 02 students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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May 2019 - April 2021
Exploring volumetric morphology through history
B.Des Interior & Furniture Design
2nd year Sem 03 Students
UID: Karnavati University
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Electives &
Minors taught
September 2021 onwards
Immerisive Environments
M.Des Interaction Design
1st year Sem 02 students
SDI: RV University, Bengaluru
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May 2019 - April 2021
Lighting for Interior Experience
B.Des Interior & Furniture Design
2nd year Sem 03 Students
UID: Karnavati University
Independent workshops taken as a visiting tutor
August 2022
Intra-disciplinary elective course module Visual Storytelling
2nd & 3rd year Design students
Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune
July 2021 onwards
Part of the Mentor cohort for Experimental Realism’s ExRe2021, ExRe2022 & ExRe2023
A 6 month Speculative Design Graduate Mentoring Programme w/ Ishita Jain
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March 2019
Winter School Workshop
‘Ghosts that walk the City: Flights of Fancy
w/ Ishita Jain for IDEA: Indus University
2nd & 3rd year Architecture students
Exhibited at Conflictorium: Museum of Conflict, Ahmedabad
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February 2019
Winter School Workshop
Setting Sail: Documenting Indigenous Knowledge systems of ship-making in Mandvi, Kutch
w/ Ishita Jain for IDEA: Indus University
2nd & 3rd year Architecture students
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December 2018 - May 2019
Academic Associate, Supporting Tutor
History of Design
Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
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February 2019
Workshop on Visual Communication & Colour Play
C. B. Patel Arts College, Nadiad - 1st year students
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January 2014
Workshop on Visual Alphabet
Grow More College of Architecture, Himmatnagar - 1st year students
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July 2014
Workshop on ‘Colour & Form’
National Institute of Design - Industrial Design PG Orientation, Ahmedabad, India
COURSES AUDITED
March 2021
Spatial Palindromes and the
‘Concept Generator Machine’
International Design Workshop
Collaboration between Jindal School of Art & Architeture + London School of Film, Media and Design, University of West London
August 2020 - September 2020
Alter Ego
International Design Studio
The Poche - interdisciplinary platform for online conversations and learning related to the built and unbuilt environment
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