Design Ethnographer at Illumine Knowledge Resources
Mumbai Area, India
Design Ethnographer at Illumine Knowledge Resources
Mumbai Area, India
Ethnographic field-work
Focus-group facilitation
Ethnographic film & photography
(Research industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
My work at Illumine involves the application of the techniques of Ethnography to Organizational & Educational contexts
(Education Management industry)
September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)
As course designer, I was responsible for formulating the teaching methodology, course content, seminar series and guest faculty organization for the M. Arch in Urban Design.
In addition I was also the Core Faculty for Architectural Design for the 2nd and 3rd year of the B Arch degree program.
(Education Management industry)
November 2003 — September 2007 (3 years 11 months)
(Architecture & Planning industry)
2001 — 2006 (5 years )
This was my start-up venture after graduating from architecture college.
As principal designer, with a team of highly skilled craftspersons, the firm successfully designed and executed various residential & workspace design projects. The overriding theme of the design practice was to develop a vocabulary of expression using natural materials and build using traditional crafts based construction practices.
MA , Material and Visual Culture , 2006 — 2007
M Arch (By Research) , Institutional Architecture , 2003 — 2006
B Arch , Architecture , 1996 — 2001
Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) Conservation Fellowship to Pursue the MA in Material and Visual Culture in University College London, UK for the academic year 2006-07