About the guest: 

Akhila Krishnan @akhila_krishnan_design Multidisciplinary Designer Projection design for live experience, VR, Moving Image, Fine Art, Graphic Narrative, Collaborative Practice and Education Akhila Krishnan is a multi disciplinary designer and director working across the fields of projection design for live experience, VR, moving image, fine art, graphic narrative, collaborative practice and education. She graduated from the Royal College of Art and the National Institute of Design. She was also an exchange student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. She was recently awarded the Time N Eye Bursary and Alan James Bursary (in collaboration with Lambrego.) Over the course of her career she has received several other honours including the Inlaks Shivadasani Scholarship, Man Group Drawing Prize, IDPA Silver Prize and the EGIDE Scholarship. During her time at 59 Productions, she was a core part of the Tony and Olivier Award winning design team that worked on the musical An American in Paris. She was also Senior Designer on Grenfell: Our Home, Channel 4's first VR documentary, that won awards at the Sheffield and Raindance Film Festival. Akhila currently lives and works in London. She is represented by United Agents for her work in projection design and moving image. 

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