Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• Design for Good is a unique non-profit alliance of global partners committed to driving impactful design solutions aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Design for Good brings together many renowned global organizations such as Airbus Commercial, bp, DBS Bank, Nestlé, Microsoft, and the Royal College of Art, to harness the power of design for meaningful change. What Design for Good creates is freely accessible to the global community. This strategy not only amplifies our impact but also encourages widespread adoption and drives scalable innovations that can significantly benefit communities worldwide.
• After a successful focus on SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation in the first cycle, we’re now tackling SDG 4: Quality Education, an area where urgent action is needed.
• With Cycle 2 focusing on SDG 4: Quality Education, the urgency is clear—with 44 million teachers needed worldwide and 300 million students lacking basic literacy and numeracy by 2030. This cycle’s diverse range of projects will address these education challenges through innovative physical, digital, and service design solutions.
• As a mentor, I’ll be guiding my design team, helping them set and achieve their goals, and offering constructive feedback.

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

• A global non-profit alliance, London. Established in 2022, Design for Good’s founding alliance comprises many of the world’s largest organisations including General Mills, Lixil, Logitech, Nedbank, Nestlé, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Pepsico, Philips and Royal College of Art. will unleash their combined creative talent of thousands of designers, to design and deliver positive impact against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals each year. The anticipated result is direct improvement to millions of lives, on a scale only possible through global collaboration. Each year, Design for Good will focus on one UN SDG. In this, its inaugural year, Design for Good will seek to address Goal 6, focused on clean water and sanitation. Gilbert Houngbo, Chair of UN-Water, is a trustee of Design for Good and will help cultivate the support of local NGOs in communities most affected to provide insights into real-world needs and constraints, to ensure designers’ solutions are sustainable. SDG 6 has been selected based on three criteria. Firstly urgency: it was one of the most highly prioritised goals during COP26. Secondly globality: it has immediate needs in most of the 200 nations. Thirdly diversity: the needs range from physical products to digital apps to service designs, which allow for participation by a broad range of participants.
• The intention is not only to create direct and measurable change, but to transform the way large companies and institutions collaborate on a common goal. The initial results of Design for Good, with the first ideas announced for implementation, will be published later in 2022.

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

• The Design Journal is dynamic and directed at academics, professionals, and researchers concerned with all aspects of design, its visual and interdisciplinary practices, skills, and new knowledge. It was founded in 1997 and is a peer-reviewed academic journal published six times yearly by Taylor and Francis Journals. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfdj20
• The Editors of The Design Journal and Taylor and Francis Publishing are committed to equity and diversity and warmly welcome applications from under-represented constituencies.
• Editorial Board members are expected to assist in achieving the journal’s mission by setting editorial policy, managing the peer-review process, reviewing papers submitted for consideration, presenting their work, suggesting topics for special or themed issues, offering comments on published content, suggesting future direction, helping to get high-quality contributions, maintaining the ethical standards of the journal, and offering overall guidance and support to meet the research community’s needs.

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Helsinki and London

• The Missing Billion report from 2019 laid out many of the issues and the implications for the health and well-being of people living with disability, collective global health goals and specific disease goals. Addressing these barriers to care forms a central component of transforming and advancing the provision of accessible and quality services for people with disabilities.
• Philips and the Missing Billion Initiative are partnering to define and design an optimal inclusive healthcare facility model at the primary care level. This includes creating a universal vision, blueprint, design standards and pragmatic implementation pathways for inclusive health facilities globally. The project will be launched via discovery research with people with disabilities. The discovery will seek to map the challenges and opportunities related to access and use of primary health facilities and the service experience from the perspectives of people with disabilities. This participatory research will lay the foundations for the subsequent design activities led by Philips. The first phase aims to design principles and accessibility guidelines for an inclusive healthcare facility. The second, apply the principles from the first phase to design an inclusive healthcare facility model. The outcome of this phase will be the creation of the initial draft of standards and facility blueprint attributes, including low cost modifications. In the last phase of the project, the aim is to drive discussion in the wider community using the case study that will be developed in Phase 2 and enable the publication of the developed vision, blueprints, standards and design guidelines. The objective will be achieved through a set of activities. The purpose of the Advisory Group is to provide input, strategic direction and as a collective, serve as a critical sounding board for the outcomes of the project. The Advisory Group will thus help shape and guide the process and deliverables of the project.

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

• At the School of Liberal Arts to build new courses into the curriculum including Digital Humanities and others

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

• Lokaratna, is the e-journal of the Folklore Foundation, Bhubaneswar. Lokaratna is a peer-
• reviewed International journal with ISSN:2347-6427. The journal is published by World Oral
• Literature Project from Cambridge University Web site, and Folklore Foundation web site
• at a time. The purpose of the journal is to explore the rich cultural tradition of India for a wider readership. The journal represents articles on culture, folklore, education, and language pedagogy.
• The objectives of the journal are:
• To invite scholars to contribute research papers on any aspect of folklore, literature, socio-political issues, linguistics and language teaching in English. They should be based on the theory and research methodologies widely adopted in the areas concerned, and on empirical studies with substantial field work.
• To publish seminal articles written by senior scholars on Folklores, making them available from the original sources. It would help present lives of folklorists, outlining their substantial contribution to existing resources.
• To publish book reviews, field work reports, descriptions of research projects and announcements for seminars and workshops.
• To present interviews with eminent folklorists and scholars from India and abroad.
• www.folklorefoundation.org

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Feb 2019 – Feb 2019 · 0 mo · Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Sep 2018 – Sep 2018 · 0 mo · Lucerne, Switzerland

May 2016 – May 2022 · 6 yrs · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Jan 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Jun 2015 – Jun 2015 · 0 mo · Australia

May 2015 – May 2018 · 3 yrs · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

Mar 2014 – Mar 2014 · 0 mo · Berlin, Germany

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Milan

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Milan

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Milan

Jun 2005 – May 2019 · 13 yrs 11 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Apr 2004 – Present · 21 yrs 11 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

May 2002 – Apr 2004 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Aug 1999 – May 2002 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

Aug 1999 – May 2002 · 2 yrs 9 mos · India

Aug 1997 – Aug 1999 · 2 yrs · New Delhi, Delhi, India

May 1994 – Apr 2004 · 9 yrs 11 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

May 1994 – Jul 1997 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India