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Climate Change and the Creative Economy in India: Disadvantaged, Disturbed and Dislocated Indian Weavers<\/strong><\/a> Stories of Immigrant Labor in Global Textile and Clothing Production edited by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe<\/strong><\/a> The Sari-Body: Material Engagements with the Body, Landscape and Beyond<\/span><\/strong><\/a> ‘Border Control’ | Design History Society Conference 2024, UCA Canterbury<\/strong> ‘Fashion: Tissue, Textile, Toile’ | CAA (College Art Association) Annual Conference, 2024, Chicago<\/strong> ‘Textiles of Punjab’ Seminar | Textile and Clothing Research Centre (TCRC), Chandigarh<\/strong> Responsible Fashion Series | University of Antwerp, Belgium<\/strong> Futuring Craft | Indian Ocean Craft Triennial at Curtin University, Perth,\u00a0 Australia<\/strong> Design Culture (s) | Cumulus Roma 2021 at Sapienza University, Rome<\/strong> IFFTI 2020 | Kent State University, United States (Conference cancelled due to COVID-19) <\/strong> Fashion Colloquia 2020 | Arch College of Design and Business, India<\/strong> International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) at Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India\u00a0<\/strong> LeNS World Distributed Conference | Srishti Institute of Technology, India\u00a0<\/strong> ‘Postcolonial Hauntologies<\/span>: Art in the Presence \u2013 Absence of the Past’ | Concordia University, Montreal, Canada<\/strong> ‘\u00a0G\/local Culture, Rights, Development, Agency, Technologies<\/b>‘ | World Making Words AHRC Research Network, <\/b>Kerala University, India<\/strong> ‘Power and Representation’ | Dress and Textile Specialists (DATS) Conference 2024, V&A Dundee<\/strong> The Scholar’s Voice | Techne Summer Congress 2024, University of Roehampton, London<\/strong> “Patchwork & Authorship” The Art of Fiction Workshop 1 | University of Exeter, UK<\/strong> Dressed Conference 2023: The Complex Dimension of Clothing in Society (Online)<\/strong> Home\/ Making Symposium | Concordia University, Montreal<\/strong> Annual New Research in Dress History Conference | The Association of Dress Historians (ADH), Manchester Metropolitan University\u00a0<\/strong> Personal Writing and Textual Practices in the British Empire, C19th-20th | University of Leicester<\/strong> Art History Conference – Participatory Needlework as Tangible and Intangible Heritage | UCL, London<\/strong> Mending and Making Conference | Endangered Material Knowlege Program and British Museum<\/strong> Material Matters Conference | Fort Ticonderoga<\/strong> Memory in a Digital Age Conference | IIT Madras. Chennai<\/strong> Knitting History Forum Conference 2021: Heads, Hands & Feet<\/strong> Curation and Conservation: Dress and Textiles in Museums | Association of Dress Historians, Turin, Italy<\/strong> TILT Conference | Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK<\/strong> Fashion and Climate Change Symposium | Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI), UK\u00a0<\/strong> Pivot 2021 Virtual Conference, Dismantling Reassembling: Tools for alternative futures | OCAD University, Toronto<\/strong> Patterns of Struggle and Solidarity Conference | Postcolonial Studies Center, Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK\u00a0<\/strong> International Upcycling Symposium 2020 | Research and Practice, De Montfort University, UK<\/strong> Research Access Grant\u00a0<\/b><\/a> Brenda M King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles \u2013 First-Prize Winner<\/strong><\/a> UKRI AHRC PhD Studentship<\/span><\/strong><\/a> Crochet Workshop, Goa<\/strong> Digital Multilogue at American University of Paris, France<\/strong> University of Mauritius, Department of Engineering<\/strong> AYA Workshop | DD Architects\u00a0<\/strong> Coventry University Virtual World Tour 2021<\/strong> Dhaaga X Okhai\u00a0<\/strong> Five Million Incidents Project\u00a0<\/strong> USTTAD Crochet of\u00a0 Goa (Ministry of Textiles X NID)<\/strong> LYFTIME<\/strong> Make a Mark \u2013 Community Couture X British Council<\/strong> TYT Partners<\/strong> Chitranee Khanna<\/strong> FabIndia<\/strong> Swarnamrit<\/strong> ParkZap<\/strong> Home\/ Making Symposium 2023 | Concordia University, Montreal<\/strong> Fashion Colloquia 2020 | Arch College of Design and Business, India<\/strong> Redress Alumni Showcase | Centerstage, Hong Kong<\/strong> Local Projects Challenge | Columbia University’s Digital Gallery, UN Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus<\/strong> a place called home<\/a><\/strong> A Circular Yarn<\/a> Being Katharine Hepburn<\/a> Articles on Medium<\/a><\/p>\n Between Pleats – Najrin Islam (<\/a>Oct 2020) Dundeed Competition 2019 Top 5 –\u00a0<\/a>Project Untapped [vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/5″][vc_column_text] BOOKS\u00a0 Climate Change and the Creative Economy in India: Disadvantaged, Disturbed and Dislocated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":95,"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2700\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragyasharma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRoutledge (Taylor & Francis Publishing)
\nMar 2025<\/em><\/p>\nBOOK CHAPTERS\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nChapter ‘The Evolution of an Identity: Tracing the Trajectory of Sindhi Ajrak Across Borders’
\n<\/em>Bloomsbury Publishing
\nFeb 2024<\/em><\/p>\nARTICLES\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nNews \u2013 The Textile Society, Spring 2025, no. 86 (First Prize Winner of the Brenda M King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles 2024)
\nApr 2025<\/em><\/p>\nCONFERENCES & SEMINARS: PAPER PRESENTATIONS<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nReading the Sari Border: Along and Against the Grain
\n04-07 Sept 2024<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Sari-Body: Exploring Interrelationships with the Body, Landscape and Beyond
\n16-18 Feb 2024<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMapping Missionary Influence of Domestic Crafts in Undivided Punjab
\n06 Aug 2022<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper Presentation – The modern-day haat<\/em>: Role of digital technology in shaping artisan-customer dynamics during the pandemic
\n15 Oct 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper Presentation – The Domestic Craft and the Artefact: Discovering Provenance, Exploring Interrelationships
\n18 Sept 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper Presentation – Shifted Paradigms in Sustainable Fashion Design Education: Studying Implications & Effectiveness of Pedagogical Methods Adopted in a Pandemic\u00a0 <\/span>Setting
\n9 June 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper published in proceedings – \u2018Untapped\u2019: Exploring Craft Potential of Urban Women Through Technology Intervention<\/strong><\/a>
\nAug 2020<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper published in proceedings – Tracing The Everyday: The Rubric of Slow Fashion
\nJan 2020<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper Presentation – Teacher\u2019s training for sustainable development in the context of design education
\n10 Sept 2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper Presentation – Zero Waste: Exploring Alternatives Through Folding<\/a>
\n3-5 April\u00a0 <\/span>2019 <\/em><\/p>\nCONFERENCES & SEMINARS: RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nThe Spectre of Crochet: A Woman\u2019s Lived Experience
\n7 Mar 2025<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCraft and Home-making: Viewing Indian Periodicals Within the Creation of a \u2018New Domesticity’
\n26 Nov 2024<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Subdued Power of Indian Crochet
\n10-11 Oct 2024<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAn Epistemologically Disobedient Researcher: Reclaiming the Personal in Academic Writing
\n16-17 July 2024<\/em><\/p>\n
\n‘Learning Needlecraft Skills: Collaborative Making in Victorian India
\n3 May 2024<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Indian Blouse: Charting Influences and Contradictions
\n7-9 Nov 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\n‘Meet the Makers’ Roundtable with Fiona Harrington and Rosa Borr\u00e1s
\n11 May 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\nA refuge for the displaced: Post-partition worlds of sewing
\n21 April 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHow did I learn this?<\/em>\u00a0 Constructing Needlecraft Cultures in Colonial India, c.1850-1947
\n14 April 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIndian Women, Wartime Knitting and Participatory Spaces of Production
\n13 April 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPatched Stories on Indian Textiles
\n25 Jan 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Sepoy and His Lota
\n21 Jan 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDoes the domestic demand to be archived? Explorations in memory of confined spaces and making
\n24 Aug 2022<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFrom jorab<\/em> (socks) to dastana <\/em>(gloves): Tracing provenance of Hand-knitting in the Indian Subcontinent
\n13 Nov 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDisplay of Indian Textiles: How Can a Sensorial Experience be Created for Better Viewer Engagement and Contextual Awareness
\n22 Oct 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nResearch Presentation – A Response to Teaching through a Pandemic: Building Systems to Support Learning Communities in Design Education Environments
\n14 Sept 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nResearch Presentation – Reversing fashion systems: Studying how overproduction is responsible for overconsumption in the industry
\n10 Sept 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPaper Presentation – Recording Circular Loops of Use and Re-Use of Clothing and Textiles adopted by Indigenous Communities in India
\n23 July 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nResearch Presentation – Imagery as a Tool for Cultural Activism: Analysing and Discussing Narratives around Sari, an Indian drape
\n18 June 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nResearch Presentation – Scaling up Upcycling: Studying challenges and suggesting solutions for its integration in the existing supply chain
\n4 Sept 2020<\/em><\/p>\nGRANTS & AWARDS<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nDesign History Society<\/span>
\n2025<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Textile Society<\/span>
\n2024<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe Techne Consortium
\n2023-27<\/em><\/p>\nTALKS & WORKSHOPS<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nCrochet Jewellery-making workshop for Artisanal upskilling
\n19-21 Sept 2022<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWorkshop – Between Active and Experiential
\n1 Oct 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nResearch Presentation – Reversing fashion systems
\n22 Sep 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTalk – Colors from Nature
\n1 June 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEmbroidered Textiles as an Expression of Cultural Identity
\nPresentation co-presented with Saumya Pande & Gunjan Arora (IIAD, India)
\n26 April 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCrochet Workshop for Artisan Training
\nSept 2020<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWorkshop – Zero Waste Fashion Design
\nGoethe Institute\/ Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India
\n21 Sept 2019<\/em><\/p>\nCONSULTANCY PROJECTS<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nEthnographic fieldwork, research and documentation on crochet in Goa
\nJune-Dec 2022<\/em><\/p>\n
\nSustainability Research Consultant \u2013 Protocol and Framework Development
\nMay-June 2022<\/em><\/p>\n
\nZero Waste Design and Construction
\nJan-Mar 2022<\/em><\/p>\n
\nLogo Design & Development for Digital & Print
\nFeb-Mar 2020<\/em><\/p>\n
\nCapsule Collection Design, Development & Production \u2013 Range of 75 garments
\nApr-Oct 2018<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDesign & Development for a few pieces, co-working with Saumya Pande
\nApr-May 2017<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBrochure Design & Development
\nJan-Mar 2016<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUser Interface Design for App Development
\nJuly-Aug 2015<\/em><\/p>\nSHOWCASE<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nCreative Research Showcase titled ‘Crochet; Domesticated’
\nMay 2023<\/em><\/p>\n
\nZero Waste Garment Design
\nJan 2020<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFold Zero – A Zero Waste Collection<\/a>
\n4-8 Sept 2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\nProject Untapped<\/a>
\nNov 2019<\/em><\/p>\nNON-ACADEMIC WRITING<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nGulmohur Quarterly Issue 01
\nMarch 2021<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFashion Revolution Fanzine issue 004 Fashion Craft Revolution
\nApril 2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFashion Revolution Blog
\nApril 2019<\/em><\/p>\nFEATURED<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nGoeth Institut – Five Million Incidents Project (2019)<\/a>
\nRedress Design Award annual magazine (2019)
\nRedress Design Award annual magazine (2018)<\/p>\nSHORTLISTED<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDesign Principles & Practices 2020 – Emerging Scholar Award
\nRedress Design Award Semi-Finalist 2019<\/a>
\nDLF Emporio Awards Finalist 2018-19
\nRedress Design Award Semi-Finalist 2018<\/a>
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