This episode was recorded in 2020 during the pandemic.

Join us as we discuss how architecture schools coped with the pandemic.

Join us as we talk to Dillraj Bhatia about choosing lighting design as a profession after graduating as an architect. 

Join us as we learn and discuss from Shreyas about material innovation and sustainable building material technologies. Tune in to dive into the fascinating world of green building technologies and crazy new materials like memory alloys, mushrooms roots ad more!

Gain insights into the process of research and what it takes to become an expert in material innovation!

He is the lead researcher at the New Materials Research Centre at the Indian School of Design and Innovation, Mumbai where he develops the practice of material driven designs and system innovations for sustainable futures. His work is centred at the intersection of materials, design, biology, technology and digital fabrication. He has been the former interim Program Director of UG Interior Design 2016-17.

His on-going research The Green Charcoal entails the development of biodegradable concrete that allows the growth of living ecosystems on buildings. The Green Charcoal has been exhibited at the Future of Architecture and Building [FAB] Biennale, Mumbai 2018 to initiate conversations on the need to material innovation in the built industry to address the local and global crisis of resource availability, waste management, climate change and degrading urban environments. His research at ISDI extends into academic studios across various undergrad and post-grad programs on developing new-age thinking towards the circular economy, waste as resource, new materials choice and performance.

He has attained Master in Advanced Architecture MAA01 from Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Spain in 2015. With specialization in Digital Matter - Intelligent Constructions, he was investigating in the use of shape memory alloys in creating passive deployable and self-shading systems in architecture.

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Join us as we talk about admission into design colleges, clear many misunderstandings and discuss probable ways in which the subject of design, in India, can be dealt with in a systematic way. Good For Construction collaborates with Ishaan Dixit of Chaigate, who is NID alumni, for this episode.

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Ishaan Dixit is a Designpreneur, Design Educator and TEDx speaker with an academic history of architecture and Visual Communication. He is the founder of 'The India Design Project' that advocates, celebrates and actively pursues 'the various roles' that design can play for a population of 1.3 billion Indians. He is dedicated to creating collaborative platforms for system thinkers, designers, social entrepreneurs and public bodies for a purposeful design impact in the field of Education, Research & Documentation.

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Links:

Website: https://chaigate.co/2016/02/26/chaigate/

Ishaan's TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtWR0u7hLk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theindiadesignproject

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IshaanDixit

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_IMuH-rEEI6bpLN1ofiVhw

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishaan-dixit-53737b64/

The business of architecture is a tricky one!  Join us, this Friday as we talk to architect Naman Ahuja, the youngest entrepreneur amongst his peers, about learning from failures, growing a business and creating an architectural empire!

Instagram: @contrive_exquisite

Connect with Naman: 01126025859

Web: www.cearchitects.co.in/

It is our choices that make us who we are. Join us, this Friday as we talk to architect Richa Arora about exploring new paths, the importance and impact of choices and Studio Make's interesting new projects! 

Instagram: @studiomakeindia

This Friday we talk to an architect who is descovering the realms beyond the standard notion of architecture. Join us as we talk to Designkar Parush Grover of Designkari Studio 

Website:https://www.facebook.com/designkari/

Instagram: @designkari