Unbox Labs 2014 | Indian Participants Ayaz Basrai
Vivek M.
Founder, The Busride
Independent Photographer
Niveditha MenonÂ
Virkein Dhar
Researcher, Fields of View
Architect, Designer & Dancer
Vishal Kundra
Ankit Daftery
Associate Director, AECOM
Interaction Designer, Arduino
Anshul Aggarwal
Aditi Kulkarni
Engineer, Design For Change
Creative Director, Sourcebits
Deepti Jain
Swati Janu
Independent Design Consultant
Architect & Writer
Shradha Jain
Aliya Curmally
Founder, Studio.Clock.Works
Writer & Transmedia Producer
Badrinarayan S.
Shantesh Kelvekar
Co-founder, 501Labs
Landscape Urbanist & Designer
Sara Anand
Vivek Sheth
Visual Designer, Carbon12 Creative
Co-founder, The Dodger Blue House
Kavita Singh Kale
Persis Taraporevala
Co-founder, Underground Worm Studio
Program Manager, Gati Dance Forum
Ayaz Basrai
Vivek M.
Founder, The Busride
Independent Photographer
Ayaz is the Founder of Busride, an interdisciplinary practice specializing in the construction of built environments. His practice blends a mix of Industrial design and Architecture to work on insightfully designed spaces, and to achieve a macro-micro balance.
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 : www.jointhebusride.com More here : http://www.vivekm.com
Niveditha Menon
Virkein Dhar
Consultant Faculty, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and Researcher, Fields of View.
Independent Creative Professional
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.
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
Vishal Kundra
Ankit Daftery
Associate Director, Planning Design & Development, AECOM
Interaction Designer, Arduino India
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.
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 psychology, cultures, travel and understanding people. More here : http://ankitdaf.com
More here : http://in.linkedin.com/pub/vishal-kundra-leed-ap-bd-c/5/484/485/
Anshul Aggarwal
Aditi Kulkarni
Engineer, Freelance
Creative Director, Sourcebits
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
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
Deepti Jain
Swati Janu
Independent Design Consultant
Architect and Writer
Deepti is a Spatial Design consultant based in Delhi. She loves to create spaces and activities that link people through associations and common experiences. Collaboration, hands-on experiments and material explorations are very important to her work process.
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.
More here : http://www.coroflot.com/deeptibjain
Shradha Jain
Aliya Curmally
Founder, Studio.Clock.Works.
Writer and Transmedia Producer
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
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-private responsibility distribution equation of urban living can be made clear and more citizen-friendly. More here : http://www.facebook.com/ToxicCityStoryHack
Badrinarayan S.
Shantesh Kelvekar
Graduate Fellow, Azim Premji University; Co-Founder, 501Labs
Landscape Urbanist & Designer
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 governance. Badri is also a co-founder of 501Labs, which develops maps-based interfaces on mobile platforms, most recently working on crowd-sourced data aggregation 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
Sara Anand
Vivek Sheth
Visual Designer, Carbon12 Creative
Co-founder, Director at The Dodger Blue House
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 idiosyncrasies, the cultures they build, the societies they live in, the customs they follow and the stories they tell.
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
Kavita Singh Kale
Persis Taraporevala
Co-founder, Underground Worm Studio
Programme Manager, Gati Dance Forum
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/
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.