BOOKS
Climate Change and the Creative Economy in India: Disadvantaged, Disturbed and Dislocated Indian Weavers
Routledge
Forthcoming (Jan 2025)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Stories of Immigrant Labor in Global Textile and Clothing Production edited by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
Chapter ‘The Evolution of an Identity: Tracing the Trajectory of Sindhi Ajrak Across Borders’
Bloomsbury Publishing
Feb 2024
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS: PAPER PRESENTATIONS
‘Power and Representation’ | Dress and Textile Specialists (DATS) Conference 2024, V&A Dundee
The Subdued Power of Indian Crochet
10-11 Oct 2024
‘Border Control’ | Design History Society Conference 2024, UCA Canterbury
Reading the Sari Border: Along and Against the Grain
04-07 Sept 2024
‘Fashion: Tissue, Textile, Toile’ | CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, 2024, Chicago
The Sari-Body: Exploring Interrelationships with the Body, Landscape and Beyond
16-18 Feb 2024
‘Textiles of Punjab’ Seminar | Textile and Clothing Research Centre (TCRC), Chandigarh
Mapping Missionary Influence of Domestic Crafts in Undivided Punjab
06 Aug 2022
Responsible Fashion Series | University of Antwerp, Belgium
Paper Presentation – The modern-day haat: Role of digital technology in shaping artisan-customer dynamics during the pandemic
15 Oct 2021
Futuring Craft | Indian Ocean Craft Triennial at Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Paper Presentation – The Domestic Craft and the Artefact: Discovering Provenance, Exploring Interrelationships
18 Sept 2021
Design Culture (s) | Cumulus Roma 2021 at Sapienza University, Rome
Paper Presentation – Shifted Paradigms in Sustainable Fashion Design Education: Studying Implications & Effectiveness of Pedagogical Methods Adopted in a Pandemic Setting
9 June 2021
IFFTI 2020 | Kent State University, United States (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19)
Paper published in proceedings – ‘Untapped’: Exploring Craft Potential of Urban Women Through Technology Intervention
Aug 2020
Fashion Colloquia 2020 | Arch College of Design and Business, India
Paper published in proceedings – Tracing The Everyday: The Rubric of Slow Fashion
Jan 2020
International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) at Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Paper Presentation – Teacher’s training for sustainable development in the context of design education
10 Sept 2019
LeNS World Distributed Conference | Srishti Institute of Technology, India
Paper Presentation – Zero Waste: Exploring Alternatives Through Folding
3-5 April 2019
CONFERENCES & SEMINARS: RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
The Scholar’s Voice | Techne Summer Congress 2024, University of Roehampton, London
An Epistemologically Disobedient Researcher: Reclaiming the Personal in Academic Writing
16-17 July 2024
“Patchwork & Authorship” The Art of Fiction Workshop 1 | University of Exeter, UK
‘Learning Needlecraft Skills: Collaborative Making in Victorian India
3 May 2024
Dressed Conference 2023: The Complex Dimension of Clothing in Society (Online)
The Indian Blouse: Charting Influences and Contradictions
7-9 Nov 2023
Home/ Making Symposium | Concordia University, Montreal
‘Meet the Makers’ Roundtable with Fiona Harrington and Rosa Borrás
11 May 2023
Annual New Research in Dress History Conference | The Association of Dress Historians (ADH), Manchester Metropolitan University
A refuge for the displaced: Post-partition worlds of sewing
21 April 2023
Personal Writing and Textual Practices in the British Empire, C19th-20th | University of Leicester
How did I learn this? Constructing Needlecraft Cultures in Colonial India, c.1850-1947
14 April 2023
Art History Conference – Participatory Needlework as Tangible and Intangible Heritage | UCL, London
Indian Women, Wartime Knitting and Participatory Spaces of Production
13 April 2023
Mending and Making Conference | Endangered Material Knowlege Program and British Museum
Patched Stories on Indian Textiles
25 Jan 2023
Material Matters Conference | Fort Ticonderoga
The Sepoy and His Lota
21 Jan 2023
Memory in a Digital Age Conference | IIT Madras. Chennai
Does the domestic demand to be archived? Explorations in memory of confined spaces and making
24 Aug 2022
Knitting History Forum Conference 2021: Heads, Hands & Feet
From jorab (socks) to dastana (gloves): Tracing provenance of Hand-knitting in the Indian Subcontinent
13 Nov 2021
Curation and Conservation: Dress and Textiles in Museums | Association of Dress Historians, Turin, Italy
Display of Indian Textiles: How Can a Sensorial Experience be Created for Better Viewer Engagement and Contextual Awareness
22 Oct 2021
TILT Conference | Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK
Research Presentation – A Response to Teaching through a Pandemic: Building Systems to Support Learning Communities in Design Education Environments
14 Sept 2021
Fashion and Climate Change Symposium | Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI), UK
Research Presentation – Reversing fashion systems: Studying how overproduction is responsible for overconsumption in the industry
10 Sept 2021
Pivot 2021 Virtual Conference, Dismantling Reassembling: Tools for alternative futures | OCAD University, Toronto
Paper Presentation – Recording Circular Loops of Use and Re-Use of Clothing and Textiles adopted by Indigenous Communities in India
23 July 2021
Patterns of Struggle and Solidarity Conference | Postcolonial Studies Center, Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK
Research Presentation – Imagery as a Tool for Cultural Activism: Analysing and Discussing Narratives around Sari, an Indian drape
18 June 2021
International Upcycling Symposium 2020 | Research and Practice, De Montfort University, UK
Research Presentation – Scaling up Upcycling: Studying challenges and suggesting solutions for its integration in the existing supply chain
4 Sept 2020
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Crochet Workshop, Goa
Crochet Jewellery-making workshop for Artisanal upskilling
19-21 Sept 2022
Digital Multilogue at American University of Paris, France
Workshop – Between Active and Experiential
1 Oct 2021
University of Mauritius, Department of Engineering
Research Presentation – Reversing fashion systems
22 Sep 2021
AYA Workshop | DD Architects
Talk – Colors from Nature
1 June 2021
Coventry University Virtual World Tour 2021
Embroidered Textiles as an Expression of Cultural Identity
Presentation co-presented with Saumya Pande & Gunjan Arora (IIAD, India)
26 April 2021
Dhaaga X Okhai
Crochet Workshop for Artisan Training
Sept 2020
Five Million Incidents Project
Workshop – Zero Waste Fashion Design
Goethe Institute/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India
21 Sept 2019
CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
USTTAD Crochet of Goa (Ministry of Textiles X NID)
Ethnographic fieldwork, research and documentation on crochet in Goa
June-Dec 2022
LYFTIME
Sustainability Research Consultant – Protocol and Framework Development
May-June 2022
Make a Mark – Community Couture X British Council
Zero Waste Design and Construction
Jan-Mar 2022
TYT Partners
Logo Design & Development for Digital & Print
Feb-Mar 2020
Chitranee Khanna
Capsule Collection Design, Development & Production – Range of 75 garments
Apr-Oct 2018
FabIndia
Design & Development for a few pieces, co-working with Saumya Pande
Apr-May 2017
Swarnamrit
Brochure Design & Development
Jan-Mar 2016
ParkZap
User Interface Design for App Development
July-Aug 2015
SHOWCASE
Home/ Making Symposium 2023 | Concordia University, Montreal
Creative Research Showcase titled ‘Crochet; Domesticated’
May 2023
Fashion Colloquia 2020 | Arch College of Design and Business, India
Zero Waste Garment Design
Jan 2020
Redress Alumni Showcase | Centerstage, Hong Kong
Fold Zero – A Zero Waste Collection
4-8 Sept 2019
Local Projects Challenge | Columbia University’s Digital Gallery, UN Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus
Project Untapped
Nov 2019
NON-ACADEMIC WRITING
a place called home
Gulmohur Quarterly Issue 01
March 2021
A Circular Yarn
Fashion Revolution Fanzine issue 004 Fashion Craft Revolution
April 2019
Being Katharine Hepburn
Fashion Revolution Blog
April 2019
Articles on Medium
FEATURED
Between Pleats – Najrin Islam (Oct 2020)
Goeth Institut – Five Million Incidents Project (2019)
Redress Design Award annual magazine (2019)
Redress Design Award annual magazine (2018)
SHORTLISTED
Dundeed Competition 2019 Top 5 – Project Untapped
Design Principles & Practices 2020 – Emerging Scholar Award
Redress Design Award Semi-Finalist 2019
DLF Emporio Awards Finalist 2018-19
Redress Design Award Semi-Finalist 2018
Live Protege Finalist 2015
