Session Highlights
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Understand how design drives change — from solving real problems to scaling sustainable solutions.
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Learn from pioneers in social, digital, and material innovation who’ve built, failed, and created impact.
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Exploring innovation pathways by integrating social responsibility, stakeholder engagement, technology, and design.
About the Speaker
Snehal Joshi
Snehal is a Co-Founder and Principal Designer of multidisciplinary design practice, Design Nonstop at Nashik. Having an art legacy, Snehal completed architecture from Pune University and product design from NID, Ahmedabad. With a thrust on designing for the bottom of the pyramid, she has worked with SAMEER, Mumbai for designing medical equipment in order to make healthcare accessible for all. Her work has been displayed at Design Idea Fair, jointly held by CII and NID in Bangalore.
Having taken an industry experience for over 3 years, Snehal decided to begin her own venture. Her work ensures aesthetics implicitly, having special liking towards folk and tribal art for its forms and expression that is purely representational yet lively. Snehal, herself, achieves simplicity in form through core understanding of fundamentals.
Snehal currently works as a faculty for design and architecture along with design practice and also practices an interesting attempt to revive folk and tribal arts in its core form through her brand laakhi.
Joy Mondal
Joy works at the intersection of spatial design and artificial intelligence as the Head of WEsearch Lab. He has rendered his expertise as the design computation consultant on projects of national importance, such as Bharat Manadapam and YashoBhoomi. As a recognised thought leader, he has spoken at TEDx & other conferences, and has been invited as an expert at institutes such as University of Southern California, Architectural Association, IIT Kharagpur, University of Sydney, and University of Tokyo.
On the tech front, he has built award-winning AI tools to detect design plagiarism, and to predict
urban safety for women using photographs of urban areas. During COVID, he built a dynamic
containment zone map of Kolkata, that garnered over 1 million views. His work has been exhibited at Alliance Francaise in Delhi, Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata, and Old GMC Palace in Goa.
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