By Shubhayan M
The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.
Season 2: Design Media India '24 ed.
Ep. 14: Negotiating Flux, Nisha Nair Gupta
Nisha Nair Gupta discusses about her innovative publishing initiative, People Places Project in the episode 14 of the season. Listen on to know her take on running bootstrapped initiatives, how to manage projects, managing opportunities and grants for independent projects and much more!
Guest: Nisha Nair Gupta
Designation: Urban researcher and publisher, Founder - People Places Project
Bio: Nisha Nair-Gupta is an architect, urban researcher and writer, and is currently a PhD research scholar at IIT Bombay. She spearheads the publishing initiative, People Place Project, which has been invested in urban research, pedagogy and publication since its inception. As part of a publication initiative looking at creating literature, books, writing and media on urban consciousness, her responsibilities are editorial, creative and growth strategies. She has published five books as a curator and editor. Her current research works look at social spaces and urban mobilities, within the context of Southern urbanism.
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Ep. 13: Get Trained, Mridula Sharma
In episode 13, Mridula Sharma gets candid about the state of flux of the media industry in architecture and design in India. Listen on to know her views on the changing media landscapes, the importance of getting trained in journalism, and much more!
Guest: Mridula Sharma
Designation: Design Futurist, Founder: StyleCaviar by Mridula Sharma
Bio: Mridula Sharma is one of the distinguished design writers of India. She has been writing, compiling, and curating design content for over 27 years. Having started her journey with the iconic Indian design magazine, INSIDE OUTSIDE, Mridula has been the Founding Editor of UK’s best-selling homes magazine LIVINGETC in India. She has also worked on launching Better Homes & Gardens (US) in India and DESIGN TODAY, a design magazine from the INDIA TODAY stable. As one of India’s leading and long-standing design journalists, she has tracked the industry and developed a keen understanding of how design continues to mirror the aspirations of our fast-changing economy.
Mridula’s unwavering allegiance to design and its impact on our daily lives has led her to establish StyleCaviar by Mridula Sharma as a premier platform for fostering connections and nurturing growth synergies within the design community.
She has four books to her credit and a design handbook for middle school children: done in collaboration with a design educationist. Mridula travels around the world exploring design nuggets and their cultural anthropology. She works and lives between Goa and New Delhi.
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Note: This episode was recorded while Mridula Sharma was working for Livingetc India.
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Ep. 12: Architecture Films, Dhwaj Shah
Dhwaj Shah renders depth to the ongoing conversation by bringing his knowledge of architectural filmmaking to the house. Listen on as we discuss making films out of buildings, and making and sustaining a business out of this sacred act.
Guest: Dhwaj Shah
Designation: Co-Founder, Buildofy
Bio: Dhwaj Shah is the co-founder of Buildofy, an independent media firm that broadcasts architecture films and eBooks of amazing houses in India.
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Ep. 11: The Metaverse, Abhishek "ABVERSE" Bhaskar
ABVERSE Abhishek is the guest for episode eleven of the series - one on a different note and flavor as we dive deep into the virtual world! This episode discusses architecture in the virtual world, the 'loss of soul', and chilling at Mars!! Well, almost!
Guest: Abhishek "ABVERSE" Bhaskar
Designation: Beatboxer, MC, Architect, Public Speaker, Entrepreneur.
Bio: Abhishek Bhaskar is one of India's leading Beatboxer and MCs, Public Speaker & an Entrepreneur. He is often referred to as a high-functioning generalist. He is the 1st Asian Beatboxer to work on a project for the United Nations. He has also conducted 2 of India's biggest Beatboxing workshops alongside Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle & Bollywood star - Ranveer Singh. He has been the ex-brand ambassador for Adidas Originals & JBL and performed for Artists like Sean Paul, AKCENT & other International Artists. He was also the ex-founder of DERT Lab, an award-winning design & research firm. He is building his new company in Stealth Mode, to be revealed soon.
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Ep. 10: Reinvent Yourself, suryan saurabh
suryan saurabh deep-dives into photography in episode ten of this season. Listen to the episode to hear his thoughts on how he managed to make a business out of photography in the design world, and his word of advice for the folks: to be innovative, to grab the opportunities, and to make the best out of oneself!
Guest: suryan saurabh
Designation: Artist & Photographer
Bio: "Man who lived at the airport ".
suryan practices as an artist and co-founded "studio suryan//Dang" based in Delhi, India. He trained as an architect. Passionate about design, he explores the tools of photography, films, creative direction, books, and exhibitions. He has worked with studios like Studio Mumbai and Sameep Padora during his early years and uses the learnings to shape better communication in design. Intrigued by the Indian landscape and self-made design, he always explores new mediums to better express himself and the world around him. In a constant hunt for new design languages, people, and practices to meet, he spends most of his time.
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Ep. 09: An Open Mind, Suneet Paul
Suneet Paul shares his views on media in design in this energetic conversation. Listen to the episode to hear his thoughts on how the culture of magazines have changed over time, and his earnest request to the youth to have an open mind that accepts feedback and embraces change!
Guest: Suneet Paul
Designation: Author & Architect
Bio: Author/architect Suneet Paul has been in the profession of architecture, academics and writing for over forty years, and was for twenty-five years the editor-in-chief of the national Indian magazine - Architecture + Design. Also, a former faculty of the School of Planning & Architecture, Delhi, he has participated in seminars and conferences and has written numerous articles on architecture and design.
Having authored three books in architecture and short fiction, painting is a hobby for him and he has won awards for his dedicated contribution to writing and journalism.
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Ep. 08: The Comicverse, Anuj Kale
Anuj Kale gets candid while discussing his journey in architecture and comic making. Listen to the episode to hear his thoughts on simplifying stories for the common folks, running a business, and a lot more!
Guest: Anuj Kale
Designation: Founder, Leewardists
Bio: Anuj is an architect and an urban designer who prefers to write and draw about the profession rather than talk about it. Anuj has been writing and illustrating comics for the past nine years and has conducted over 150+ workshops in colleges across India in collaboration with his partner, Shreya. He has been part of making comics at Leewardists which caters to 3 lakh + viewers across the globe.
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Ep. 06: Strategic Communications, Tanya Khanna
Tanya Khanna talks about strategic communications in the built environment in this episode of the talks. Listen on to know her views on how content has evolved in the AEC sector and to know her views on a lot of the contemporary issues of the media sector in the architecture industry.
Guest: Tanya Khanna
Designation: Founder, Epistle Communications
Bio: Indian Architect and Curator, Tanya Khanna has committed herself to Democratising Architecture –– giving a global voice to design and to all those who practice, influence, or experience it. She is the founder of Epistle, the first and largest communications consultancy for architects and designers in South Asia. Through her work with more than 150 leading architects, design practitioners, real estate developers, artists and design brands, Tanya has been passionately advocating good design for over 16 years. Trained as an architect in India and London, Khanna brings with her an intrinsic understanding of what businesses in the design and AEC domains need to Be Known.
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Ep. 06: The Mainstream, Shiny Verghese
Shiny Varghese talks about the status of the representation of built environment in the mainstream media in India today. Listen on to get important points on the entrypoints for the mainstream media in the country, and how she advices prospective candidates to approach the entrypoints.
Guest: Shiny Verghese
Designation: Senior Editor, The Indian Express
Bio: Shiny Varghese is Senior Editor at The Indian Express, New Delhi. In her 12 years, she has been following design and architecture in the country, lending her voice to urban issues and tracking new approaches to design.
Her stories have evaluated the relevance of design and promoted the need for thinking about it as a way of life. From interviews with architects to stories on new materials and experiments in practice, she has attempted to present the connect architecture has with people and society.
In her 18 years as a design journalist, she has developed a keen sense of design, asking the simple yet important question: ‘Is it necessary?’ She has helped edit books and journals on design and architecture for practices and organisations and has been on the jury of national design competitions.
In the past, she has worked with the India Today Lifestyle group, the Deccan Chronicle and Down To Earth.
Trained at the Asian College of Journalism, Bangalore, she completed her Masters in English at Stella Maris in Chennai, and her schooling from St Mary’s Convent, Mumbai, and Our Own English High School, Dubai. She lives and works in Delhi.
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Ep. 05: Writing Architecture, Apurva Bose Dutta
Apurva Bose Dutta lays out architectural writing in the current context for my audience. Listen to the episode to know why she expresses the need for fluidity in 'design media' while reminding the fraternity to be mindful of what content it produces and call it 'architecture journalism'.
Guest: Apurva Bose Dutta
Designation: Author, Architectural Journalist, Curator, Editor, Educator
Bio: Ar. Apurva Bose Dutta is an Indian author, award-winning architectural journalist, curator, editor, and educator based in Bengaluru. An alumna of the Chandigarh College of Architecture (2005), Apurva's professional journey of 18+ years has seen global collaborations with architecture-design multimedia publication houses, firms, organizations, and institutions.
Recognized for her pioneering initiatives in architectural design writing in India, Apurva works at the intersection of architectural design writing, curation, critique, discourse, communications and thinking. She is passionate about writing, curating architecture-design content and discourses, professional speaking, offering training initiatives in architectural writing, and consulting for academic and professional platforms.
Apurva has been invited by the Australian and Finland Governments to represent the Indian delegation at the International Media Visits of Architectural Writers in Melbourne (2016) and Helsinki (2018). Author of Architectural Inheritance and Evolution of India (2023) and Architectural Voices of India (2017), Apurva is widely published and holds advisory positions with several renowned global architectural and design platforms.
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The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.