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Srikar AVR

Assistant Professor

srikaravr[at]des.iith.ac.in

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Interest areas:
Product Design, Furniture Design, System Design, Advanced Materials, Workplace Design, and Ethnography.

Srikar is an Architect and an Industrial Designer by profession. He is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design where he did his post-graduation in Product Design. He also did another Masters in Strategic Design and Innovation from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Srikar has led global consulting assignments with Iconic furniture manufacturing brands like Herman Miller and Steelcase. With 13 years of industry experience, he also worked in various capacities as a Design leader with brands like Kohler, DuPont, Godrej, and Nokia in the areas of R&D, Design and Innovation, Advanced Materials in Design, CSRs, Sustainability, Analytics, Workplace Strategy. He and his teams won multiple national and international accolades for their design work that positively impacted various businesses. With his passion for research and teaching young minds; he traveled widely and has been an active visiting faculty in leading design and architecture Institutes in India and abroad. He has been nominated as India design ambassador for Scandinavia (Norway and Sweden) representing Godrej for the company’s efforts in the field of Healthcare design innovations. He is also a member of CoA, WDO, IADRA, CII, etc.