prof. Saurabh Tewari
Saurabh Tewari
Assistant Professor
Department of Design
E-mail: st@design.iitd.ac.in
Research Group: www.deshlab.in
Saurabh Tewari studied Architecture (B. Arch, 2003-08) at Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon and Communication Design (M. Des, 2008-10) at IDC, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He obtained his doctorate in Design from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2021, for which he received the "Outstanding PhD Thesis Award". His thesis, "Design Paradigms: A Post-colonial Design History of India", intends to be foundational in the under-articulated South Asian and Indian Design History.
Saurabh has a teaching and research experience of 14+ years elaborating the discourse on Design History, Design and Architecture Studies. In 2018, he co-initiated the Master of Design programme at the School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal with an integral focus on Socio-Cultural Design. He has published various threads on design, sustainability, and urbanism, and presented at academic events worldwide.
Awards
Saurabh is a recipient of various research and travel fellowships from national and global institutions, including the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the USA in 2007; Department of Science and Technology MHRD, Government of India 2008-10; UNESCO/UNEP/BMU TU Dresden, Germany 2010; DRONAH Gurgaon, 2011; IIT Kanpur, 2015-17; Design History Society, UK, 2017 and 2019; Society of Architectural Historians, USA, 2018; Environmental Planning & Coordination Organisation, MP, India, 2019; College Art Association & Getty Foundation, 2020, Distinguished Alumnus Award by IDC School of Design IIT Bombay in 2020 and Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from IIT Kanpur in 2021.
Teaching, Research and Professional Interests
• History and Culture of Design
• Design Studies
• Typography
• Communication Design
• Design / Education
Publications
Information for PhD applicants
If you see me as your potential supervisor for your doctoral studies at DoD, I am interested in the following domains:
• Design History
• Design Studies
• Design / Education
• Communication Design / Culture
• Design, Society and Sustainability
I am looking for highly motivated and passionate individuals who
• love to read and write
• have empathy and compassion towards various actors in society
• have an opinion towards social and design issues
• dynamic to take multiple roles
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact through email with a short proposal (1200-2000 words) with the following:
• Topic/Area (What?)
• Research Gap
• Your positionality
• Methodology (How?)
• Relevance (Why? for Whom?)
• Your influences/references for the topic
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