About SCID

A Professor, Educationist, Mentor, an Urbanist and an Architect. He has previously worked as a Director and Design Consultant for Vastu Labs ( INDIA ) He has 10 years of Teaching Experience and worked as  Design Consultant for Collej / UX Reactor (India subsidiary), Director & Professor at  University Institute of Design, Chandigarh University 2019, SEDA, Navrachana University 2018  chitkara University, Punjab 2016.

Prof. Maninder Singh has taught in various colleges of architecture – College of Architecture Trivandrum, Vastukala College of Architecture, New Delhi. Also, as a Thesis Jury Panel at Ansal University Gurugram, Thiagaraja Engineering College Madurai, TKM College of Engineering Kollam, College of Engineering Trivandrum, Amity University Noida, Indus University Ahemdabad among others. He was a Visiting Guest Lecture in ENSA Toulouse, France (2017).

He has over 3 years of Research experience on the  Paper Presentation on ‘Patrick Geddes’ at IPSA Conference in Indore 2019. Research Paper Presentation on ‘ Smart Cities Mission India’ at the Indian Institute of Management conference in Shillong 2018 and Research Paper Presentation on “ Smart Cities’ at Smart Cities Conference in Paris 2017.

Prof. Maninder Singh has 20 years of professional experience working in the industry on NIT Patna Campus Design Raipur Railway Station Redevelopment, National Design Competition in Chattishgarh University Buildings, Kerala University, Resort Buildings: Club Mahindra Extension Varkala, Trivandrum.

He was invited for the National Level Campus Design Competition PHFI Campus, New City Master Plan, Structure Plan & Urban Design Guidelines  Amanora Park Town for City Corporation, Pune.

Prof. S Balaram Singanapalli is one of the foremost designers of India. He is the founder of the Craft Development Institute in Kashmir for the Government of India. He has headed as the Governor and Chairman of Education at the National Institute of Design (NID) and was the Founder Dean at D J Academy of Design and an Emeritus professor of CEPT University, India. An internationally acclaimed designer, he has four patents to his credit. He is also a well-known author and has been teaching for over four decades.

Prof.Balaram is the recipient of The Ron Mace International Award for Universal Design, The Helen Keller award for outstanding contribution to people with special needs, the UNIDO-ICSID award for Design for Development and has also been awarded an honorary Fellowship of Society of Industrial Designers of India for his contribution to the field of design.

He has been invited to speak at various international and national forums. One of the most significant international meetings organized by him was the ‘UNIDO-ICSID meeting on Design for Development’, the first such meeting to be held in a developing country. He was the first to champion the term ‘majority world’ to replace the derogatory ‘developing world’. Apart from innumerable stories, articles and essays in journals, he has published books such as- ‘Thinking Design’ (Second edition); ’Design quotes’ and sections in ‘Britannica Encyclopedia, ’Universal Design Handbook (second edition)’ and ‘Teaching Universal Design’.

He was on the advisory board of ‘Design Issues’, a journal of international repute. He was one of the keynote speakers at the Second IAUD conference 2006, Kyoto and third IAUD conference at Hamamatsu 2010.

From the Japan princess Aiko, he received the grand jury award for Universal Design Education conferred by the International Association for Universal Design(IAUD).

Prof. A.G. Rao is an Adjunct Professor and a former Head of the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology – IIT Bombay. Born in 1945, he graduated as a Mechanical Engineer, and pursued his majors in Product Design at National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad. In 1980, he pursued a UNESCO fellowship and studied creativity at M.I.T (Cambridge, Massachusetts).

He has been teaching in IDC, IIT Bombay since the 70s and has been a motivating guide for over 150 M.Des projects. He designed the electronic voting machine for BEL. He has also designed around 20 products for companies like Crompton, Siemens, Thermax, L&T and Bamboo toolkit for UNDP.

He has passionately spoken on Design and Bamboo craft in Bali, Costa Rica, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brazil, Mexico, U.S.A and Europe. He started the Colour Fly Design Studios for the Meso group.

He has run workshops on Design, Creativity, product Innovation, Experiential learning and Bamboo craft for different groups like school children, designers and engineers in companies like Honeywell, Whirlpool International, NTU Singapore, Hyperwerk, and Basel, Switzerland. His positions held in the past include D.L.Shah Chair for innovation, Hon. Director, Boroplast Pvt. Ltd., President’s Nominee for Faculty Selections, IIT Guwahati. He is also the Managing Director of A.G.Bambu Style Pvt. Ltd. (Started under SINE, IIT Bombay).

I started my career as a Fashion Designer in 2012 and as time went by, I got opportunities to work with different brands and designers in India. It was the Pune City where my professional life took a kickstart with the Emerging womenswear brand name ‘VILVIN’ at the post of Assistant designer.
Being fond of ‘Styling, I moved on to Singapore to pursue *Fashion styling’ to make a professional career in this trait. It was during this phase that I achieved a shoot for India SÁ magazine.

Following my Instinct I relocated to ‘The Swinging City’ to learn the course further from ‘London College of style. Here, I worked at the London Fashion Week and got the chance to meet some of the great designers of our time (Paul Costelloe, Fyodor Golan, Julien Macdonald, Malam Breton, Victoria Beckham). Under the assistance of the stylist Ozzy Shah, I have styled the American rapper Blackbear.

Heena Mahendra – M.A(Communication) – T.V Journalism & Film Studies
Heena worked as a project manager in the publishing industry handling end to end publication of Science Technology and Medicine books. She is currently a branding strategist and a writer. An ardent communication enthusiast, she has mentored the European delegates to India. She has co-directed a documentary on Silent Valley National Park, a short film on Industry-media nexus and has hosted an International Film Festival on disabilities. She enjoys In-depth film analysis and contemporary global history and says- “that the entire world works on conversation- on stories- yours and mine”. Pottery, music and gastronomy are her messiah and helps her connect to her inner child”.

An interior designer from south India ,who is specialised in both residential and commercial spaces. She believes in having multiple approach to reach a good design solution rather than having one idea or concept for all spaces. Designing spaces is a soulful process of observing the user’s culture and lifestyle, to understand and give them the best experience while using the space. She is also an artist and her observing strength has given her opportunity to work with multiple art direction teams in media industry, as art direction is all about manifesting an imaginary character and designing accordingly. This was possible only because of the experiences and lessons gained through travel and interaction. Her vision is to have more interactions and share the knowledge and experience as a tutor/educator cause she believes knowledge or experience which isn’t shared is of no propose.

Quote she believes in
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” – Steve jobs
And
“Work hard until your design becomes famous than you”.

Fashion designer, Meena Pandiyan is no stranger to commercial market coming from 3 years of experience as a casual Men’s wear designer in a Fashion Buying House. With such experience I got an opportunity to work as an Assistant Fashion designer in a German company’ in Shanghai.

With an urge and persistent thinking about Fashion design I got an astonishing opportunity to work as an intern for brands Newyork & COMPANY (NYCO) and Abrogrombie & Fitch (A&F) in Shanghai, China.

Iniya is a Type and graphic designer based out of India. She has always been inclined towards and passionate about academics and design teaching. She did her graduation in communication design with a specialization in type design. She has five years experience working with various startup’s, and brands . And she has exclusively worked on film and book titles. Her interest in learning and understanding the skill of scripts prompted her to explore the field of Type design and become a Type designer. With a keen interest in the field of communication design, she’s also worked on children’s book illustrations, animation, packaging design and publication.Her fascination in learning and sharing in the field of education interested her in becoming an educator.

Apart from practicing and teaching design, she is an avid reader, loves traveling, music, sports and poetry.

I am UI UX designer with about 4 years of industry experience. I have my roots from Industrial Design (Hardcore Product Design). I have experience working with Tafe as a console Designer, along with 3+ and counting years of experience in immersive media (AR VR) industry.

An Architect by profession from Coimbatore, pursued her higher education both Bachelors and Masters in the field of Architecture. With the flow of time, she was awarded the post of Assistant Professor in Architecture & Design Institutions in and around Coimbatore. It was her passion to explore new design concepts and share her knowledge to the upcoming younger generation. As a Faculty in Design she is focused on History, Materials and Landscape in Interior Design. She is also specialised in Advance Design in Housing, researched and experimented on Biophilic Designs, Terrace Gardens and Living Walls. She has worked on Residential and Commercial projects with Cost effective and Eco-friendly materials considering Human and Natural Well-being proving efficient design principles. As a Designer she believes in Natural Design Lifestyle which considers protecting and preserving the creator’s creations in all aspects.