UNBOX LABS | Meet the Indian Participants!

Unbox Labs 2014 | Indian Participants Ayaz Basrai

Vivek M.

Founder, The Busride

Independent Photographer

Niveditha MenonÂ

Virkein Dhar

Researcher, Fields of View

Architect, Designer & Dancer

Vishal Kundra

Ankit Daftery

Associate Director, AECOM

Interaction Designer, Arduino

Anshul Aggarwal

Aditi Kulkarni

Engineer, Design For Change

Creative Director, Sourcebits

Deepti Jain

Swati Janu

Independent Design Consultant

Architect & Writer

Shradha Jain

Aliya Curmally

Founder, Studio.Clock.Works

Writer & Transmedia Producer

Badrinarayan S.

Shantesh Kelvekar

Co-founder, 501Labs

Landscape Urbanist & Designer

Sara Anand

Vivek Sheth

Visual Designer, Carbon12 Creative

Co-founder, The Dodger Blue House

Kavita Singh Kale

Persis Taraporevala

Co-founder, Underground Worm Studio

Program Manager, Gati Dance Forum

Ayaz Basrai

Vivek M.

Founder, The Busride

Independent Photographer

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

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 : www.jointhebusride.com More here : http://www.vivekm.com

Niveditha Menon

Virkein Dhar

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

Independent Creative Professional

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.

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

Vishal Kundra

Ankit Daftery

Associate Director, Planning Design & Development, AECOM

Interaction Designer, Arduino India

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.

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 psychology, cultures, travel and understanding people.

More here : http://ankitdaf.com

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

Anshul Aggarwal

Aditi Kulkarni

Engineer, Freelance

Creative Director, Sourcebits

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

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

Deepti Jain

Swati Janu

Independent Design Consultant

Architect and Writer

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

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.

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

Shradha Jain

Aliya Curmally

Founder, Studio.Clock.Works.

Writer and Transmedia Producer

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

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

More here : http://www.facebook.com/ToxicCityStoryHack

Badrinarayan S.

Shantesh Kelvekar

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

Landscape Urbanist & Designer

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

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

Sara Anand

Vivek Sheth

Visual Designer, Carbon12 Creative

Co-founder, Director at The Dodger Blue House

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 idiosyncrasies, the cultures they build, the societies they live in, the customs they follow and the stories they tell.

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

Kavita Singh Kale

Persis Taraporevala

Co-founder, Underground Worm Studio

Programme Manager, Gati Dance Forum

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/

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.