SELECTED PUBLIC PROGRAMS
under Artistic practices
2024
Glastonbury Festival, Artist under Diversity Programme by Greenfields, United Kingdom | June
Gutter Ki Macchli (Fish from the Sewer), Film Director
- All Living Things Environmental Film Festival | November 2024
- 16th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) | July 2024
- EcoReels Film Festival by Kriti Film Club, Alliance Francaise Delhi | June 2024
- London Climate Action Week, United Kingdom | June 2024
- Catalyst Social Impact 2024, Delhi | August 2024
2023
Public Memory by The Upside Space, Artist International Online Exhibition (link)
2022
British Council Together Season of Culture Launch, Artist, Delhi, India | June
2021
Reclaim Awards, Artist / Awardee, Cologne, Germany | 21st- 30th August
2020
1 by one, Installation Artist, supported by Tarq Gallery, Mumbai
The Dark Fantasy, Installation Artist, at Arts and Culture Hubba | Bangalore International Centre, India
2019
The Wait Time project | Cubbon Park Metro Station | Bangalore, India
Under pressure, Set Designer for a theater performance by Visual Respiration | Bangalore
2018
Laze Maze, Artist | Design Fabric Festival, Mumbai, India
2017
Stand on the Street at Serendipity Arts Festival, Set Designer | Visual Respiration, Goa, India
Urban Poetics, Connecting Columns student show | A collateral of Kochi - Muziris Biennale March
Library of mats with Festival of Stories | Bangalore, India
Under Curatorial Practices / Community Organising
2024
Ek Aasmaan Tale (Under One Sky), Programme Lead | Mumbai, India 2023 - present
Govandi Arts Festival, Co-curator and Creative Lead | Mumbai, India
2022
Language and the city, Urban Campus by World Urban Forum, UN Habitat | Online
2018
The Wait Time project | Cubbon Park Metro Station | Bangalore, India
2017
Festival of Stories | Art in Transit | Bangalore, Mumbai
Under Educational Practices
2017 onwards
Guest Lecturer, University of Berkeley, USA 2024
Visiting Faculty, National Institute of Design, India 2024
Research Associate, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India 2017-18
Visiting Faculty and Curriculum Design, SILICA training institue, Mumbai & Bangalore 2016 - 2018
AWARDS & GRANTS
> Going Together – For Youth Creativity and Well-Being, Grant Scheme | UNESCO x SEVENTEEN, 2025
> Arts4Resilience, Knowledge into Use Award | Global Resilience Partnership, Sweden | 2023-24
> India-UK Together: Season of Culture grant by British Council | Mumbai & Bristol | 2022-2023
> Reclaim Award for Art and Use of Public Space | Cologne, Germany, 2021
> Fund support for a group show on feminist approach to urban spaces by Tarq Gallery | Mumbai 2020
> The Global Challenges Research Grant, 2020 | UK (with Community Design Agency, E[co]work). 2020
> STEAM school scholarship, by Maker’s Asylum | Mumbai 2017
RESIDENCY
South Asian Diversity Programme
Glastonbury Festival, UK, July 2024
SELECTED TALKS
> Arthshila Ahmedabad for All Living Things Environment Film Festival, November 2024
> COP29 Side Meeting with Green Health Alliance, Speaker Online, November 2024
> TEDx speaker | Solstice, where change begins, MGMU, India 2024
> Baatein festival at National Institute of Design | Ahmedabad, India 2024
> Building Festivals & IP | CultureCon 2024 by Festivals from India | Mumbai, India 2024
> Building Modern Agoras - The Bottom-Up Way | Global Cultural District Network (GCDN) Athens, 2024
> Digital Disruptions 2023 at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
> On Arts and Education by Slam Out Loud | Nehru Science Centre Mumbai, January 2024
> Tradition, Transition & Transformation | Rizvi college of Architecture for its 31st ARCHFEST | August 2022
> Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) ‘s session on inclusive city, part of an initiative of the World Urban Campaign driven by UN-Habitat | July 2022
> Global Problem Local solutions, The Global Solutions Summit for E[co]work Project | May 2021 | Link to view
> Interviewed by Radioeins, a public radio in Germany on the project E[co]work, May 2021 | Germany
SELECTED WRITINGS
> Towards Hope As Practice - Young Residents reclaiming a Neighbourhood’s Identity through
Arts and Placemaking. (Peer reviewed) Young Gamechangers, The Journal for Public Spaces,
City Space Architecture in partnership with UN habitat.
> Afterword for Awaaz - Voices of Govandi edited by Nisha-Nair Gupta. Buy book here
> In which Language Does The Rain Fall? | Global Resilience Partnership, 2023
> Can waste bring communities in high density neighbourhood together? | Architecture Live, 2020
> Love Letters for Shaheen Bagh From Around the World | LiveWire, The Wire, 2020
ADVISORY EXPERIENCE
Global Cultural District Network, 2024 onwards, India
Placemaking India Network, 2022 onwards, India
Early Career Advisor 2022, City space architecture, Italy
Bangalore Ambassador, Make Sense Organisation, Ambassador for Bangalore City,
from January 2018 - April 2018
CREATIVE CONSULTANCY
Govandi Arts Festival, Co-founder | May 2022 – On-going, Mumbai.
> Organizing Govandi Arts Festival, a community led public arts festival in the neighborhood of Govandi, Mumbai.
> Fundraising for the festival programming and team.
> Setting up a neighborhood led pedagogy through mentorship programs and artist residency with the community, developmental organizations and established artists .
> Leading a team of staff members, community residents, partners and consultants to deliver the festival in February 2023.
Community Design Agency, Lead, Arts & Design, March 2019 - On-going | Mumbai, India
> Working on the Neighbourhood Regeneration program within Natwar Parekh Colony, a neglected neighborhood in Govandi, Mumbai, by bringing tangible spatial improvements through art and design led interventions.
> Design and Program lead for Under One Sky, an initiative to build more creative community spaces centred around wellbeing, expression and safety.
> Conducted multiple design research, mapping, street design and neighbourhood visualisation workshops with the youth and residents of Govandi.
> Led research and design consultancy projects within the organization for E(co)work, Goonj, Hasiru Dala, World Vision.
> Expanded outreach for organization by bringing international, national and local collaborations, grants and partnerships.
Art in Transit at Srishti Manipal University, Program Associate | September 2017 - 2019 | Bangalore.
> Organizing, designing and programming for Festival of Stories, a bi-monthly public art festival in the metro stations of Bangalore.
> Assisted the faculty on public art courses for students at the university
> Coordinated the first Indie Comic Festival in Bangalore.
> Designed and implemented art installations for other festivals as part of building partnerships.
Multiple city based publications, Creative director | 2018 - present | Mumbai, Bangalore, Kochi
> Sub:version: Publication design for the first annual journal by R.V College of architecture on critical imaginaries of space and place.(2022).
> Memory Maps: Publication design for Memory Maps project, a collection of maps, memories and experiences of the city generated by multiple contributors. (2019-2021).
> Urbz: Design consultant for the project ‘Ente Kochi. (2019).
> Urbz: Publication design for Circulatory Urbanism. (2018).Artist Sebastian Errazuriz Studio,2016 | New York, USA
Developing and designing in-house product design solutions, 3D prototyping and printing, storytelling through film and edit.
EDUCATION
2022-24
Edinburgh Napier University (received Full Scholarship by British Council)
10 weeks Credit Course in South Asia Festival & Culture Academy | 2024 (Intermediate)
10 weeks Credit Course in South Asia Festival and Culture Academy | 2022 (Beginners)
2012 - 2016
Srishti Manipal University of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore
Bachelor of Design with specialisation in Industrial Art and Design Practices (IADP) and minor is Visual Communication
2021
Open Water Diving (PADI)
Trained and certified by Umeed Mistry
Internship
Architect - Designer, Rooshad Shroff, May - June 2015 | Mumbai, India. 2015
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
> Workshop on making community libraries by Bookworm, Goa
> Relearning Nature with Veljko Armano Linta
> London Design Festival | September 2022
> The 10th session of World Urban Forum by UN-Habitat, Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation, February 2020 | Abu Dhabi
> Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Masterclass (Virtual), John Hopkins University, September 2020 | Online
> Social Innovation Summit by Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy, Ashoka University, October 2019 | Mumbai