Tewari S. (2025) ICDHS14 Cultures of Design: Book of Abstracts. Sep 2025. ISBN 978-93-344-1725-8

Tewari S., and Franklin, S. W. (2025) Sustainability in Design Education. ISBN 978-93-344-1941-2

Tewari, S. (2024). Book review: Venugopal Maddipati. 2021. Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Architecture. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 58(1), 127-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/00699659241285467

Rodgers, P. et. al. (2019). The Lancaster Care Charter. Design Issues, 35 (1). DOI: 10.1162/desi_a_00522. Document.

Tewari, S. (2018). The Design Journey of Prof. Sudhakar Nadkarni by Mandar Rane. The Design Journal, 21(5), 759–765. DOI: 10.1080/14606925.2018.149586. Review Article.

Tewari, S. (2018). How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today, by John Thackara. Design & Culture, 10 (1), DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2018.1430997. Review Article.

Tewari, S. (2007). Dhabas: the real face of glossy urbanism. Indian Architect and Builder, Emerging Urbanism Issue. ISSN 0971-5509.

Tewari, S. (2016). Jugaad. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-011

Tewari, S. (2016). Product Semantics. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-011

Tewari, S. (2016). Kalaa. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-012

Tewari, S. (2016). Athavankar, Uday (1945-). _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596178-BED-ONLINE-007

Tewari, S. (2016). Nadkarni, Sudhakar (1936-). _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-023

Tewari, S. (2016). Landscape Urbanism. _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-015

Tewari, S. (2016). Industrial Design Centre (1969-). _________. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-ONLINE-008

All above in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

A Jugaad Theory of Design

A Gandhian Theory of Design

A Rasa Theory of Design

Tewari, S.(2021) _______. (eds.) Rodgers P. Theories of Design[ing], New York: Vernon 2021

Tewari, S. (2018) Urban Landscape of Bithoor: Between its Pratha and Praja. ed. Biswas S. P., Tewari, S. Blue Lines of Kolkata. Kolkata: Trust for Search. ISBN 978-81-936936-0-5.

Tewari, S., Sridharan, N., Pandey, R. U., & Wadwekar, A. (2020). Community, Craft and Culture: Learning Resilience from the Ziro Valley. Retrieved from https://www.breucom.eu/mod/page/view.php?id=737

Tewari, S. (2018). Report: DHS Strategic Research Grant. Design History Society, UK. www.designhistorysociety.org

Batra N., Tewari, S., Bakyayita A., Nkambule E. (2007) Yard Improvement. Rubbo A. & van den Busch J. (eds.), the Global Studio 2007: Changing Mindsets, Global Studio, July 2007

Shinde, R. T., and Tewari, S. (2026*) Visual Proportions of Multilingual Typefaces in Indic Scripts, at the UD26: Belonging, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Presented 3 July 2026, In Press)

Roy, S., and Tewari, S. (2026*) Film as Pedagogical Tool in Design History Education: A Reflective Study of Two Courses, at the UD26: Belonging, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Presented 3 July 2026, In Press)

Bhardwaj, G., and Tewari, S. (2026*) Belonging Through Repair in Delhi’s Informal Cultural Landscape, at the UD26: Belonging, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Presented 3 July 2026, In Press)

Kanojia, H.,and Tewari, S. (2026*) From Exclusion to Imagination: Place-based Participatory Design with Marginalised Children for Just and Inclusive Urban Futures in the Majority World, at the UD26: Belonging, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Presented 3 July 2026, In Press)

Khan, S. A., Tewari, S., Sobti, M., and Texiera, F. F. (2026*) The Contested Campus: Competitive Territoriality and Lived Belonging in a Heritage Landscape, at the UD26: Belonging, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Presented 3 July 2026, In Press)

Bhardwaj, G., and Tewari, S. (2026*) The Seams of the City through Repair-as-Design and the Mapping of Tacit Belonging in Delhi, at the UD26: Belonging, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Presented 3 July 2026, In Press)

Bhardwaj, G., and Tewari, S. (2026*) The Craft of Care: Mapping Material, Emotional, and Ecological Values in Delhi’s Repair Ecologies, at Emerge 2026 at the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. (Presented 13 March 2026, In Press)

Kanojia, H.,and Tewari, S. (2026*) Meaning Before Making: Embedding Critical Worldviews through Ethical Pedagogy in Early-stage Design Education, at Emerge 2026 at the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. (Presented 13 March 2026, In Press)

Kanojia, H., and Tewari, S. (2025*). Shaping sustainable design thinking: Exploring the role of school environmental studies in youth designers’ climate conscious practices in India. ICDHS14 Conference 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. (Presented 11 October 2025, In Press)

Pardhi, M., Shinde, R. T., and Tewari, S. (2025*). Hand-Lettered Theatre Boards: Exploring the Typography of Marathi Plays in Maharashtra. ICDHS14 Conference 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. (Presented 12 October 2025, In Press)

Roy, S., and Tewari, S. (2026) Interdependencies of Art History and Design History curriculum in Indian undergraduate education, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2404

Kanojia, H.,and Tewari, S. (2025) Triadic Co-Creation Model: Redefining Child Participation in Urban Planning in the Majority World, in Chang, C.-Y., Chen, C.-H., & Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.1191

Roy, S., Tewari, S.,and Shinde, R.(2025) Analysing Visitor Behaviour in Interactive Immersive Art Experiences and Exploring Their Potential in Art and Design History Education, in Chang, C.-Y., Chen, C.-H., & Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.1082

Khan, S.A., PM, A., Kaur, R.,and Tewari, S.(2025) The Social Dynamics of Campus Spaces: An ethnographic study of lived experiences and student agency, in Chang, C.-Y., Chen, C.-H., & Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.717

Kanojia, H., & Tewari, S. (2025). Enabling Climate Change through Communication Design in Sustainability Discourse at the School Education in India. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD), Hyderabad, India. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-7316-2_31

Agrawal, I., & Tewari, S. (2025). From Heritage to Luxury: Elevating Saharanpur’s Wood Carving Craft to Global Markets. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD), Hyderabad, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-6414-6_43

Sambhani, R., & Tewari, S. (2025). Think! You Still Have a Choice: A Communication Design Intervention on Climate Change Education. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD), Hyderabad, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-7316-2_45

Shinde, R., & Tewari, S. (2025). Exploring Typographic Landscapes in Delhi: How Typography Shapes the Urban Environment. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD), Hyderabad, India. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-6511-2_27

Dutta, P., & Tewari, S. (2025). From Calligraphy to Digital Typeface: Designing an Assamese Display Typeface based on a Mediaeval Assamese Script. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD), Hyderabad, India. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-6511-2_28

Rasmina, & Tewari, S. (2025). Packaging the Channapatna Toys: Employing a Product Semantics Approach. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD), Hyderabad, India. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-6511-2_25

Shinde, R., Tewari, S., & Xaxa, A. R. (2025). Typefacing the Visual Culture: Developing a Versatile Digital Devanagari Typeface. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD), Hyderabad, India. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-6511-2_35

Tewari, S. (2025) From Problem-solving to Finding the Meaning: Communication Turn in Indian Design Education, Futuring Design Education, IIT Delhi. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-9206-1_4

Kanojia, H., & Tewari, S. (2025). Visualising Future Sustainable Cities for India: Adapting Participatory Design Frameworks for Children in the Majority World. The 16th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) 12-14 December 2024

Shinde, R., Tewari, S. (2024) Across Time and Space: Evolution of Typography at Delhi’s Historic Architectural Monuments. P/References of Design Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. Cumulus Association. May 2024. Link

Ahuja, S., Tewari, S. (2024) Revisiting Humanism in a Post-humanistic Paradigm: Through the Lens of Indian Crafts. Fashion Towards Post-HUmanis: IFFTI Annual Proceedings. EWHA University, Seoul. Vol.3, April 2024. ISSN 2583-875X. Link

Tewari S., Singh R. (2022) Chawalgatha: Creating awareness about the indigenous rice crops of India through communication design. Published in: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design. Volume: RSD11. url: https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4288

Kulshreshtha K., Tewari S. (2021). Re-learning Puberty: Minimising Period Shaming in Urban Schools. Humanizing Work and Work Environment, 19th International Conference, Indian Society of Ergonomics, IIT Guwahati, December 2021. Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_60

Tewari, S. (2021). Towards an Ontological Expansion of Design: Thematic Threads to Advance the Next Design Education Paradigm. Humanizing Design: WDO Research and Education Forum 2019, (September). Montreal: World Design Organisation. ISBN 978-1-7770192-0-4.

Tewari, S. (2021). Design for Development 2.0? Revisiting the Ahmedabad Declaration and Discourse of Design in India. Humanizing Design: WDO Research and Education Forum 2019, (September). Montreal: World Design Organisation. ISBN 978-1-7770192-0-4.

Bhattacharjee R., Tewari, S. (2021) Competitive Branding of Sustainable Domestic Products: A Product Semantics Approach. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_55

Ghosh A., Tewari, S. (2021) PowerPost: A Framework for Designing Visual Political Communication. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_56

Singh R., Tewari, S. (2021) Visual Alankars: Toward a Decolonized Visual Design Framework. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_45

Sambhani R., Tewari, S. (2021) Dots and Lines: Indian Folk and Tribal Art Inspired Activities for Kids. In: Chakrabarti A., Poovaiah R., Bokil P., Kant V. (eds) Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1. ICoRD 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0041-8_58

Tewari, S. (2018). Design in Visions : Visions of/on Design from the Events, Declarations and Policies in India. In O. Moret (Ed.), Back to the Future: The Future in the Past (11th ICDHS) (pp. 47–51). Barcelona: University of Barcelona. ISBN 978 8491681564.

Tewari, S., Prabhakar, N., & Popli, S. (2017). A Gandhian Framework for Social Design: The Work of Laurie Baker and Hunnarshala. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Vol. 66). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_29

Tewari, S., & Jyoti, A. (2017). Holistic socio-environmental design: Practices through making, craft, and historicity. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Vol. 66). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_4

Tewari, S., & Priya, K. R. (2017). People, chair, and value(S): A qualitative inquiry into the material lives. In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (Vol. 65). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_3

Tewari, S., (2017). Sarvodaya - A political version of care and design. Does Design Care…? An International Workshop of Design Thought and Action, (October). Lancaster: Imagination, Lancaster University.

Tewari, S. (2015). Laurie Baker: A model for Sustainable Architectural Design. Conference: Cumulus Mumbai 2015: In a Planet of Our Own - a Vision of Sustainability with Focus on Water, 1–10. Mumbai: IDC IIT Bombay. ISBN 978-81-931260-1-1.

Tewari, S. (2015). Looking through the album art of independent rock bands in India. In S. Karahasanolu (Ed.), Musicult’15: Music and Cultural Studies Conference. Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing. ISBN 978-605-4841-93-6

Tewari, S. (2014). The process of coalescence in the architecture in India. In N. Çatak & E. Duyan (Eds.), Movements & Outsiders: ARCHHIST ’14 / History of Architecture Conference Proceedings (pp. 89–97). Istanbul: DAKAM Publishing. ISBN 978-605-5120-71-9.

Tewari, S. (2013). Urbanism in Gurgaon. In J. P. S. Nunes & P. Costa (Eds.), Recomposing the Urban Fabric Centralities and Peripheries Revisited. Lisbon: ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. ISBN 978-989-732-152-8. DOI: https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/4307.

Tewari, S. (2007). Informal in Formal : Mushrooming of Dhabas next to BPOs / MNCs in Gurgaon. Emerging South Asian Urban Design Practices and Paradigms, (June). Colombo: KU Leuven (Asialink/Asiaurbz).

Tewari, S. (2025). Making the Invisible Visible: Health, Urban Design, and Everyday Resilience at Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi. 8-9 December 2025. Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

Shinde, R. T., and Tewari, S. (2025*). Transliterating Brand Identity: the Role of Typography in India’s Multilingual Landscape. ICDHS14 Conference 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Tewari, S. (2024). Moving from Problem-Solving to Scenario-Framing: Leveraging Al for Design. Digital Pedagogies in Design: International Research Symposium. School of Design and Innovation, RV University. Bengaluru.

Shinde, R., Tewari, S. and Xaxa, A. R. (2024) Crafting Indic Letterforms for the Grounded Digital Turn. Digital Pedagogies in Design: International Research Symposium. School of Design and Innovation, RV University. Bengaluru.

Tewari, S. (2020). Critical Pedagogy in Design in India: A reflection. College Art Association’s Annual Conference at SAIC Chicago on 11th February 2020.

Tewari, S. (2019). जीरो घाटी: गांधी के ‘सपनों के भारत’ की एक जीवंत कार्यशाला . Gandhi Prasang (Gandhian Eco-philosophy Seminar) EPCO, Bhopal on 1st October 2019.

Tewari, S. (2019). Design, Continuums, and Development in a Periphery’s periphery: A tale from the Ziro Valley. ‘The Cost of Design’: 2019 Design History Society’s Annual Conference at Northumbria University on 6th September 2019.

Tewari, S. (2017). Raw, Repair, Refurbish: A ‘Re-use’ Design Culture from India. Making and unmaking the Environment’: 2017 Design History Society’s Annual Conference at University of Oslo on 8th September 2017.

Tewari, S. (2017). Swadeshi vs. Multinational: The Product Semantics of Feminine Beauty Products in India. WONDER: Women in Design Research Seminar at Oslo and Akershus University of Applied Sciences, Oslo on 6th Sep 2017.

Tewari, S. (2017). Investigating the Fields of Design Culture. D’logues Research Scholars Day 2017, IIT Kanpur on 27th March 2017.

Tewari, S., & Jyoti, A. (2015). Holistic Design Principles driven by Socio-Environmental Visions - Indian Subcontinent. Design History Society’s Annual Conference, California College of Arts, San Francisco, 12th Sep 2015.

Tewari, S. (2015). Expediting from Genesis: a journey from point to space at Re-Thinking Basic Design Pedagogy. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad on 27th March 2015.

Tewari, S. (2014). Post-Liberal Design Culture of India. Design Culture Conference, South Denmark University at Kolding, September 2014.

Tewari, S. (2013). Hybrid as an accommodating culture: The different phases in Architecture of India. TASMEEM 2013: Biennial Art and Design Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar, March 2013.

Tewari, S. (2012). Neo-Urbanism in a Post Millennial Indian City. “Urban Dynamics and Planning 2032”, Integral University, Lucknow, April 2012.

Tewari, S. (2011). Three Users of Gurgaon. Axis Institute of Architecture, Kanpur Sep 2011.

Tewari, S. (2007). Reality behind False Façades: Urban Villages in Gurgaon. People Building Better Cities Conference at Global Studio 2007 Wits University, Johannesburg, July 2007.

Shinde, R., Tewari, S. (2024) Transliterated Logos: Analysing the Impact of Script and Cultural Context on Brand Recognition. Posters and Demos. India HCI 2024. IIT Bombay.

Kanojia, H., & Tewari, S. (2024). Empowering children’s agency in urban planning: Participatory design frameworks for the majority world. Participatory Design Conference 2024.

Trehan, S., Kanojia, H., & Tewari, S. (2024). Designing for extreme contexts: Facilitating participatory design and evolving empathy in climate change advocacy. Participatory Design Conference 2024.

Tewari, S., & Roy, S. T. (2016). The Story of a Chair: Transformations in the Design Culture. 10th International Conference on Design History and Studies, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, on 26th Oct 2016.

Tewari, S. (2020, January 9). Report: DHS Conference Bursary. Design History Society’s Website. Design History Society. UK.

Tewari, S. (2018, June 9). Report: DHS Strategic Research Grant. Design History Society. UK.

Tewari, S. (2017, April 8). Feature: A tryst with the Past. Design History Society. UK.

Tewari, S. (2017). Mumbai/ un viaje, una búsqueda, un hogar en la metrópolis [Spanish, tr. by Milan, R.]. Bifurcaciones Magazine. Chile.

Images and words like rhythm and blues Of Indian Origin. [Web log post]. Retrieved from https://ofindianorigin.co/

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LivedHeat Symposium 2026 Delft Integration of Big Data and Thick Data for Urban Heat A Two-day Symposium, Co-organiser July 2-3, 2026, at TU Delft Jointly organised by TU Delft and IIT Delhi

LivedHeat Symposium 2026 Delhi Big Data – Thick Data: Rethinking Climate Vulnerability, Urban Informality, and Participatory Knowledge A Two-day Symposium, Principal Organiser May 14-15, 2026, at IIT Delhi Jointly Organised by IIT Delhi and TU Delft

Aarohan, India on the World Stage: International Multi-disciplinary Seminar on Technology, Design and Entrepreneurship Conference Chair and Organiser 4-6 March 2026Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

ICDHS14: Cultures of Design, International Conference on Design History and Design Studies Conference Chair and Organiser | www.icdhs14.org 8-10 October 2025 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

What Was Sustainability? The Past, Present, and Future of Sustainability in Design and its Education: SiDE Symposium TU Delft 2025 A Two-day Symposium, Co-organiser 26-27 March 2025 Delft

Sustainability in Design Education: SiDE Symposium IIT Delhi 2025 A Two-day Symposium, Principal Organiser 22-23 January 2025New Delhi

IndiaHCI 2024 Student Research Consortium Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Co-chair SRC Track 7-9 Nov 2024Mumbai

Re-Imagining EverydayProducts, Together!A Participatory Design WorkshopPDC Place India, IIT Bombay 9 Aug 2024Mumbai

Feedforward: An Online Meetup for Aspirants in Design Research Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Co-organised and coordinated the event 25 March 2023Online

Resilient Ziro 2041 Organised and coordinated the Online event with speakers and participants from Ziro, Bhopal, Itanagar, Delhi and more 7 January 2022Online Visioning Resilient Jodhpur at JNVU Jodhpur Institutional Resilience for Informed Decisions Marginalised Communities and Resilience Urban Resilience and Transforming Communities Co-organised the above four PDPs (Professional Development Programmes) under Building Resilient Urban Communities (BReUCom): A project funded under the European Union Erasmus+ Program in the field of Capacity Building in Higher Education) web: breucom.spab.ac.in 16-20 Mar 2021 28 Jan to 3 Feb 2021 23-27 November 2020 19 - 23 October 2020

Design Samvad (Online Lecture Series) hosted a series of nine online sessions on the topics related to Design during the early pandemic in 2020 at SPA Bhopal May-June 2020Online

SundarBari - SEARCH International Students Design Competition 2020 A students architecture competition responding to the disaster caused by ‘Amphan’ in India and Bangladesh | with www.searchtrust.org May-August 2020 Online

Design Baithak South Asian Sphere A series of online sessions on the topics related to Design | Bhopal and New York | Co-hosted with Ahmed Ansari, NYU May-July 2020 Online

From Adiganga to Tolly Nullah... Search Workshop 18 an international interdisciplinary studio organised by SEARCH Trust New Delhi and the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Coordinated and conducted the event 21-27 December 2018 Kolkata

Research Scholars’ Day 2017 Design Programme, IIT Kanpur Coordinated and conducted the event 27 March 2017 Kanpur

Landscape Urbanism: Search Workshop 16 coordinated and conducted the interdisciplinary studio organised by SEARCH Trust New Delhi and RCGSIDM, IIT Kharagpur 21-27 December 2016 Kolkata

Research Scholars’ Day 2016 Design Programme, IIT Kanpur, Co-ordinator 10 April 2016 Kanpur

Learning by Making Workshops School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal Co-organised the nine parallel workshops focussing on various design skills and themes 14-18 May 2015Bhopal

Design, Paradigms, and Design Paradigms, UPES, 28 February 2025

Design for Peace: Empathy as a Foundation, LoopEd 6.0, UID, GD Goenka University Gurugram, 16 September 2024

Repair, Care, and Participation: Designs for Just Transformation in the Majority World, at UQ–IITD workshop on Just Transformations in Food, Technology, and Climate. University of Queensland and IIT Delhi (Online). 23 April 2026.

Design History of Design Education. Special Lecture for Foundation Batch. 17 February 2026. NID Ahmedabad

Design History as a way of knowing Design. Special Lecture for Bachelor of Design. 16 February 2026. CEPT Ahmedabad

Postcolonial Design in India. 17 December 2025. HSE School of Art and Design, Russia.

Energy Transition and the Campus Built Environments, Seminar on Energy Research at the University of Queensland and IIT Delhi, 14 October 2025, IIT Delhi

Gandhi, Design and Sustainability, Terra Carta Design Lab Workshop at NID Ahmedabad, 7 April 2024 (online)

Paradigms of Intersections: AI x Design, Special Lecture at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, 5 March 2024

Paradigms of Design, Special Lecture for the Doctoral Group for The Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU) Switzerland and the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, NID Ahmedabad, NID Ahmedabad, 8 Feb 2024

Design History as Research, Special Lecture for the Doctoral Group for The Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU) Switzerland and the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, NID Ahmedabad, 7 Feb 2024

Bauhaus and Ulm, Special Lecture for the Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad, 6 Feb 2024

Design History Foundations, Special Lecture for the Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad, 5 Feb 2024

From HfG Ulm to India, Lecture at Anant National University, Ahmedabad, 20 Oct 2023

Design History as a Methodology, Lecture at Anant National University, Ahmedabad, 19 Oct 2023

Design, Modernity and India: An Entangled History (online), Lecture at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, 18 Dec 2021

Beyond Eameses: The unfolding of Post-colonial Design in India (online) Lecture at İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, Izmir, Turkey, 22 Nov 2021

Design History, a Design Research Methodology? (online) for Doctoral Students at the IDC School of Design, 7 Sep 2021

Paradigms in the Indian Design Education (online) Doctoral Students Session at NID Ahmedabad, 29 June 2021 & 23 July 2020

Design History: Historiography, Varieties and Frameworks (online) Doctoral Students Session at NID Ahmedabad, 28 June 2021 & 22 July 2020

Me after IDC / IDC before me (online) at IDC Alumni Award Talks, IIT Bombay on 23 January 2021

Developmental Paradigm of Design in India, Golden Wattle | Porous Frontiers, RMIT Australia presented on 9th Sep 2020 (online)

Designama: Shifting Positions of Design Education in India at Department of Technology, Culture and Society, New York University Tandon School of Engineering on 18th February 2020

History of Modern Design Education at NID Ahmedabad on (Multiple Times)

Introduction to Design History at NID Ahmedabad (Multiple Times)

Landscape Urbanism at Search Workshop 18 an interdisciplinary workshop organised by Search Trust New Delhi and Dept. of HSS, IIT Kharagpur, 21-27 December 2018 Kolkata

Design in Visions: A Work in Progress, a presentation for the PhD Scholars at NID Ahmedabad on 16 May 2018

Design History: Frameworks and Methods, a presentation for the PhD Scholars at NID Ahmedabad on 15 May 2018

Contemporary Design Culture of India at Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad on 16 March 2018

Two Approaches on Theorising Design Culture at Foundation Programme, NID Ahmedabad on 17th March 2017

Let’s Retrospect the Smart a presentation on the history of Smart Cities at the National Convention, Agra organised by the Architects Association of Agra, 25th February 2017

Learning from Search Workshop 16 (with Biswas, S. P.) at International Symposium on Water Urbanism and Infrastructure Development in Eco-sensitive Zones, organised by IIT Kharagpur & Columbia University New York, at Kolkata on 7th January 2017

Towards a Smarter Coach: A Design Proposal a presentation for upgrading railway coaches at Railway Designs and Standards Organisation, Lucknow: May 2011

Portfolio Presentation at 52nd CIPSEM Workshop at Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, November 2010

Yard Improvement: The Global Studio Project at Studio output and proposal presentation at Faculty of Architecture, AKTU, Lucknow: Jan 2008, and at SSAA: Aug 2007 (with Batra, N.)

Jury Member, Design Paradigms, Master of Design 2023-25, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi (2023)

Jury Member, Thesis, Master of Design 2022-24, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi (2023)

Jury Member, Landscape Design Competition for Students, IWD at IISER Bhopal (2019)

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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2024

— Peer Review of Journal Articles —

Design and Culture, Taylor and Francis, 2026

Design Issues, MIT Press, 2026

Co-Design, Taylor and Francis, 2024

Third World Quarterly, Taylor and Francis, 2024

The Design Journal, Taylor and Francis, 2022, 2026

— Peer Reviews in Academic Conferences —

IndiaHCI 2024, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, 2026

UD26: Belonging, University of Aveiro, 2026

EMERGE: Emerging Design Inquiry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2026

Aarohan: India on the World Stage, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2026

ICoRD’25, International Conference of Research into Design, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, 2024-25

IndiaHCI 2024, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2024-25

ICoRD’23, International Conference of Research into Design, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, 2022-23

ICDHS12, International Conference on Design History & Design Studies, 2020, Zagreb