DeSH Lab

The Design Studies/History Lab (DeSH Lab) at IIT Delhi advances Design Studies and Design History through research, pedagogy, and public dissemination. We develop rooted paradigms attentive to Indian and Global South contexts while dialoguing with global scholarship. Our work addresses three aims: (1) Bridging gaps across critical, epistemological, and methodological approaches in making and communication; (2) Expanding horizons by engaging diverse communities and stakeholders to translate scholarship into education, governance, and society, foregrounding climate justice, inclusivity, and gender; and (3) Decolonising perspectives by re-situating design’s universalist claims within plural contexts across communication, making, architecture, and design education. Current projects include Sustainability in Design Education (TU Delft–IIT Delhi), Contemporary Practices and Future Frameworks for Institutional Campus Design (UQ Brisbane–IIT Delhi), Design-nama (IIT Delhi seed grant), and Big-Data/Thick-Data in Urban Heat (TU Delft–IIT Delhi).