unbox labs | meet the indian participants!

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Niveditha Menon Researcher, Fields of View Vishal Kundra Associate Director, AECOM Anshul Aggarwal Engineer, Design For Change Ayaz Basrai Founder, The Busride Virkein Dhar Architect, Designer & Dancer Ankit Daftery Interaction Designer, Arduino Aditi Kulkarni Creative Director, Sourcebits Vivek M. Independent Photographer Kavita Singh Kale Co-founder, Underground Worm Studio Badrinarayan S. Co-founder, 501Labs Vivek Sheth Co-founder, The Dodger Blue House Deepti Jain Independent Design Consultant Persis Taraporevala Program Manager, Gati Dance Forum Aliya Curmally Writer & Transmedia Producer Shantesh Kelvekar Landscape Urbanist & Designer Sara Anand Visual Designer, Carbon12 Creative Swati Janu Architect & Writer Shradha Jain Founder, Studio.Clock.Works Unbox Labs 2014 | Indian Participants

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Unbox LABS is an inspirational international project, connecting creatives and researchers from the UK and India. The Indian winners were selected from an open application process and represent a diversity of disciplines, including design, architecture, research and the arts. Congratulations to them all!

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Page 1: UNBOX LABS | Meet the Indian Participants!

Niveditha Menon Researcher, Fields of View

Vishal KundraAssociate Director, AECOM

Anshul AggarwalEngineer, Design For Change

Ayaz BasraiFounder, The Busride

Virkein DharArchitect, Designer & Dancer

Ankit Daftery Interaction Designer, Arduino

Aditi KulkarniCreative Director, Sourcebits

Vivek M.Independent Photographer

Kavita Singh KaleCo-founder, Underground Worm Studio

Badrinarayan S.Co-founder, 501Labs

Vivek ShethCo-founder, The Dodger Blue House

Deepti JainIndependent Design Consultant

Persis TaraporevalaProgram Manager, Gati Dance Forum

Aliya CurmallyWriter & Transmedia Producer

Shantesh KelvekarLandscape Urbanist & Designer

Sara AnandVisual Designer, Carbon12 Creative

Swati JanuArchitect & Writer

Shradha JainFounder, Studio.Clock.Works

Unbox Labs 2014 | Indian Participants

Page 2: UNBOX LABS | Meet the Indian Participants!

Ayaz is the Founder of Busride, an interdisciplinary practice specializing in the construction of built environ-ments. His practice blends a mix of Industrial design and Architecture to work on insightfully designed spaces, and to achieve a macro-micro balance.

More here : www.jointhebusride.com

Founder, The Busride

Ayaz Basrai

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 : http://www.vivekm.com

Independent Photographer

Vivek M.

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.

Consultant Faculty, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, and Researcher, Fields of View.

Niveditha Menon�

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

Independent Creative Professional

Virkein Dhar

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.

More here : http://in.linkedin.com/pub/vishal-kun-dra-leed-ap-bd-c/5/484/485/

Associate Director, Planning Design & Development, AECOM

Vishal Kundra

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 psychol-ogy, cultures, travel and understanding people.

More here : http://ankitdaf.com

Interaction Designer, Arduino India

Ankit Daftery

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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

Engineer, Freelance

Anshul Aggarwal

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

Creative Director, Sourcebits

Aditi Kulkarni

Deepti is a Spatial Design consultant based in Delhi. She loves to create spaces and activities that link people through associations and common experiences. Collabo-ration, hands-on experiments and material explorations are very important to her work process.

More here : http://www.coroflot.com/deeptibjain

Independent Design Consultant

Deepti Jain

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.

Architect and Writer

Swati Janu

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

Founder, Studio.Clock.Works.

Shradha Jain

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-pri-vate responsibility distribution equation of urban living can be made clear and more citizen-friendly.

More here : http://www.facebook.com/ToxicCityStory-Hack

Writer and Transmedia Producer

Aliya Curmally

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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 gover-nance. Badri is also a co-founder of 501Labs, which develops maps-based interfaces on mobile platforms, most recently working on crowd-sourced data aggrega-tion tools to map civic infrastructure.

Graduate Fellow, Azim Premji University; Co-Founder, 501Labs

Badrinarayan S.

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

Landscape Urbanist & Designer

Shantesh Kelvekar

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 idiosyncra-sies, the cultures they build, the societies they live in, the customs they follow and the stories they tell.

Visual Designer, Carbon12 Creative

Sara Anand

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

Co-founder, Director at The Dodger Blue House

Vivek Sheth

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/

Co-founder, Underground Worm Studio

Kavita Singh Kale

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.

Programme Manager, Gati Dance Forum

Persis Taraporevala