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Niveditha Menon Researcher, Fields of View
Vishal KundraAssociate Director, AECOM
Anshul AggarwalEngineer, Design For Change
Ayaz BasraiFounder, The Busride
Virkein DharArchitect, Designer & Dancer
Ankit Daftery Interaction Designer, Arduino
Aditi KulkarniCreative Director, Sourcebits
Vivek M.Independent Photographer
Kavita Singh KaleCo-founder, Underground Worm Studio
Badrinarayan S.Co-founder, 501Labs
Vivek ShethCo-founder, The Dodger Blue House
Deepti JainIndependent Design Consultant
Persis TaraporevalaProgram Manager, Gati Dance Forum
Aliya CurmallyWriter & Transmedia Producer
Shantesh KelvekarLandscape Urbanist & Designer
Sara AnandVisual Designer, Carbon12 Creative
Swati JanuArchitect & Writer
Shradha JainFounder, Studio.Clock.Works
Unbox Labs 2014 | Indian Participants
Ayaz is the Founder of Busride, an interdisciplinary practice specializing in the construction of built environ-ments. His practice blends a mix of Industrial design and Architecture to work on insightfully designed spaces, and to achieve a macro-micro balance.
More here : www.jointhebusride.com
Founder, The Busride
Ayaz Basrai
Vivek is an independent documentary photographer and visual journalist based out of Bangalore. His projects revolve around the theme of urban transformation, public spaces, social disparities and environment. He loves creating and curating personal narratives with the city as the backdrop.
More here : http://www.vivekm.com
Independent Photographer
Vivek M.
Primarily trained as a gender sociologist, Niveditha received her doctoral degree from Penn State University in Sociology and Demography with a minor in Women’s Studies. She has recently expanded her interests to issues related to information technology, urban poverty, and participatory research methodologies.
Consultant Faculty, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and Researcher, Fields of View.
Niveditha Menon�
An architect, designer and dancer, Virkein is interested in the intersection of these diverse yet uniquely related fields and spends her time innovatively and intuitively between these disciplines. Most of her work focuses on policy research, scenography and contemporary dance in India.
More here : https://www.behance.net/Virkein
Independent Creative Professional
Virkein Dhar
Vishal is a City Designer with a focus on solving urban planning and design issues. His experience includes neighborhood revitalization, urban infill design, mixed-income communities, public realm design, waterfront developments and campus planning projects in India, U.S.A., Middle East and China.
More here : http://in.linkedin.com/pub/vishal-kun-dra-leed-ap-bd-c/5/484/485/
Ankit loves to mashup hardware, software and data constructively to provide tools that empower people to create and communicate, to improve education, and make life easier. He also has a general interest in psychol-ogy, cultures, travel and understanding people.
More here : http://ankitdaf.com
Interaction Designer, Arduino India
Ankit Daftery
Anshul graduated as a Mechatronics Engineer and has been working with Design for Change for the last 2 years. He loves to work on community and system designs.
More here : http://www.dfcworld.com
Engineer, Freelance
Anshul Aggarwal
Aditi is a creative director and interaction designer with a penchant for installation art. Spanning seven years of design experience, she has covered a variety of projects from usability research and web design to branding and advertising. Her passion is creating beautiful experiences across iOS, Android and Web platforms.
More here : http://www.sourcebits.com
Creative Director, Sourcebits
Aditi Kulkarni
Deepti is a Spatial Design consultant based in Delhi. She loves to create spaces and activities that link people through associations and common experiences. Collabo-ration, hands-on experiments and material explorations are very important to her work process.
More here : http://www.coroflot.com/deeptibjain
Independent Design Consultant
Deepti Jain
Swati is an architect by profession and a writer by compulsion; and is currently pursuing part-time studies in Sustainable Urban Development at Oxford University. She has collaborated with Micro Home Solutions, designing for those who do not otherwise have access to design.
Architect and Writer
Swati Janu
Born in New Delhi and educated in Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad with a background in Fine Arts and Filmmaking, Shradha founded Studio.Clock.Works. to revive the culture of playing traditional board games in todays times of digital media. She has been actively collecting games & game related stories from her travels.
More here : http://www.studioclockworks.wordpress.com
Founder, Studio.Clock.Works.
Shradha Jain
Aliya champions the transformative power of storytelling, and thinks it can be harnessed make civic interventions more engaging. She wants to explore how the public-pri-vate responsibility distribution equation of urban living can be made clear and more citizen-friendly.
More here : http://www.facebook.com/ToxicCityStory-Hack
Writer and Transmedia Producer
Aliya Curmally
Badri is a fellow at the Law, Governance Development Initiative at Azim Premji University, where he researches land administration, and the use of technology in gover-nance. Badri is also a co-founder of 501Labs, which develops maps-based interfaces on mobile platforms, most recently working on crowd-sourced data aggrega-tion tools to map civic infrastructure.
Shantesh is a Landscape urbanist, theorist & designer. He operates on projects of diverse scales - from small architecture to evolving urban forms; and in diverse geographies. He believes that research and design go together - Design evolves research and research strengthens design.
More here : http://readinggrounds.wordpress.com
Landscape Urbanist & Designer
Shantesh Kelvekar
Sara is a Product and Interface Design graduate with a penchant for designing products and services that create stimulating experiences. She is particularly curious about people – their perceptions, eccentricities and idiosyncra-sies, the cultures they build, the societies they live in, the customs they follow and the stories they tell.
Visual Designer, Carbon12 Creative
Sara Anand
Vivek Sheth is a Co-Founder and Director at The Dodger Blue House in Mumbai. He is a graduate in Exhibition (Spatial) Design from NID. Vivek is also a Visiting Faculty at BARD, NewYork teaching subjects like Urban Design Theory & Practice and at NID teaching Scenography, Design Thinking & Environmental Perception.
More here : http://bandraforyou.blogspot.in
Co-founder, Director at The Dodger Blue House
Vivek Sheth
Kavita Singh Kale is a versatile award winning media professional whose work has been showcased in several national and international platforms. With a decade of experience in content creation in publication and film industry, she has handled broadcast design, writings and illustration for picture books, music videos to short films.
More here : http://undergroundworm.tv/
Co-founder, Underground Worm Studio
Kavita Singh Kale
Persis Taraporevala leads a community building project in New Delhi. She has an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and her primary research interest has been governance, studied through the lens of decentralised indigenous forest conservation processes and the theoretical underpinnings of citizenship in the urban context.