2007 : Entrepreneurship Design Fellow, Imperial College, Tanaka Business School. Invited to this unique executive MBA spring workshop by InnovatonRCA, London, UK

2005 : M.A., Interaction Design (Distinction), Royal College of Art, London.

2001 : Post Degree Program, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.

2000 : BA, Communication Design & Film, National Institute of Design (NID) India.

UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005, Seoul, Korea for ‘Yellow Chair Stories' under the theme of urban play and locative media.

1st Prize ‘GMW Award for Working Life’, Design for our Future Selves Awards 2005, Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art, London.

Innovation Award, Film 'Journeys' at Chicago International Documentary Festival, 2005

Grand Prix, Film 'Journeys' at Geneva International Film Festival for Human Rights, 2005

DFID Shared Scholarship (Department of International Development, U.K.) for Post-Graduate Education, Royal College of Art, 2003-2005.

The ICSID (International Council of Society of Industrial Designers) and Du Pont, Inc., presented the Award of Excellence, for Project "Mandala", Toronto, Canada, 1997.

Apple Computers International Design Competition, Apple Computers Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A. for Project “Mandala”.

June 2009: Founder, Principal at Superflux Ltd.
Superflux is a new kind of collaborative design practice in Ahmedabad, India and London UK. www.superflux.in

June 2009 - ongoing: Creator, collaborator, The Power of 8: In this project, 8 people from different walks of life work together to build a public conversation about their individual aspirations for a desirable future. www.powerof8.org.uk

2008 - 2009 : Senior Designer, Nokia Design, London.
Worked on strategic design projects looking at the future of the Nokia Design Service Portfolio, and in the design and development of the new gestural interaction methods.

2006 – 2008: Design Lead, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK.
Group: Socio-digital Systems, Computer Mediated Living. Creative lead on a project about the context-aware design of ‘intelligent objects and experiences’ in a home or a domestic environment with a team of research scientists, technologists, social scientists and designers.

2005 – 2006 : Interaction Designer, Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art, London and CBS Products UK.
Creative Leader for project: ‘Futurescapes of Work’ with an emphasis on emerging technologies, ageing populations and environmental risks. Application of user- centered design techniques and methods of visualising the future led to the invention of new jobs in a fictional town called ‘Little Brinkland’ in the year 2012.
Documentation: www.littlebrinkland.com

2006 : Interaction Design Consultant, Richmix, London.
Member of core design team, creating collaborative interactive experiences using personal devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players and gaming devices for the young local community of East London.

2002 – 2003 : Production and Resource Manager, documentary film ‘Journeys’.
Project-managed the creative team for the production of 35mm poetic film on the painful nature of urban commuting in Mumbai, India. Funded by the prestigious Jan Vrijman Fund, Amsterdam, the film received several international awards and critical acclaim.

2002 - 2003: Communication Designer, Swayam Shikshan Prayog, Mumbai
Developed communication aids and co-created micro-credit banking systems to facilitate empowerment of rural women whose lives were torn apart by a devastating earthquake in Gujarat, India, 2002.

2001 - 2002: Researcher, Gujarat AIDS Prevention Unit, Ahmedabad. Worked on the research and production of a film which involved talking to street children and homeless people, who were selling their blood for a living. Conducted workshops to educate them about the health risks and, simultaneously worked with blood banks to demonstrate risk of AIDS.

Invited speaker, LIFT09, Geneva, talk title 'Learning to Play with Tomorrow'.

Invited speaker, Interactivos? Garage science, Medialab Prado, Madrid presented ‘Life and Death in Energy Autonomous devices’, paper and round table participant ARCO India '09.

Invited speaker, Design Engaged, Montreal, talk title ‘Learning to Play with tomorrow’.

MoMA New York, 2008: ‘Domestic Gubbins’ and ‘RFID and Body Readers’ in the online show: Design and the Elastic Mind’, (www.objectsincognito.com)

SIGGRAPH 08, LA Installation: ‘Life and Death of Energy Autonomous Devices’ exhibited as part of the Slow Art section.

‘Near Future RFID’, EPIC2008, Copenhagen.

Little Brinkland, EPIC 2007, an International Conference on Design Research and Ethnography, Keystone Colorado, October 2007.

Invited to show work at PechKucha, ICA, London, February, 2007 alongside Russell Sage, Iram Qureshi, Louis Jones and others.

2006 InnovationRCA Show and Symposium, project ‘Little Brinkland: Futurescapes of Work’ at the Royal College of Art, London, September 2006.

WorkTech06, British Library, project ‘Little Brinkland: Futurescapes of Work’, London, November 2006.

Ubicomp 2006, Orange County, U.S.A., project ‘Sketch-a-Move’, 2006

ISEA 2006, San Jose, California, USA, project ‘Yellow Chair San Jose’, 20

Tomorrow's People: The Challenges of Technologies for Life Extension and enhancement, James Martin Institute, Oxford, Feb. 2006

Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo, Japan, project ‘Yellow Chair Stories’.

Design Engaged05, Berlin, project ‘Yellow Chair Stories’.

London Design Festival and InnovationRCA, project ‘Light Play’.

Tate Modern, London, screening ‘Journeys’.

Mattel Toys Design Summit, LA, U.S.A., project ‘Sketch-a-Move’, 2004

Urban After, Intel Research, San Francisco. project ‘Spaces [in] between’.

‘Two Cities’, ‘What's an Academy, A Table...’, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, 2001.

'Mandala: A senior citizens' initiative', Apple International Design Competition, Apple Computers Inc., California, U.S.A, 199 and ICSID Humane Village Conference, Toronto, 1997.

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