Adira Thekkuveettil — Head of Design

Adira Thekkuveettil is an artist and designer working primarily with photography. Her practice is grounded in research within historical documents, literature and visual material that inform and colour her process and inquiries as a photographer. Her current project explores how the built environment of a city is both informed by, and consequently informs the manner in which it is depicted, understood and tackled in popular culture, media, policy making and politics. She is also deeply interested in how individual lives are shaped by and shape the urban landscape. In her professional practice, Adira is an exhibition designer as part of the design studio, The Interpreters. Leveraging technology with thoughtful curation, the studio has worked with various institutional and personal archives, museums and private collections across India. Adira is also a collaborator with The Anglo-Indian Archives, a project that is digitally documenting the visual and oral histories of the Anglo-Indian community within India as well as the larger diaspora. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, and is presently based out of Trivandrum, Kerala.

Stackforce AI infers this person is an Urban Cultural Researcher and Designer specializing in visual documentation and exhibition design.

Experience: 4 yrs 11 mos