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Podcast: Diseño y Diáspora
Episode: 623. DECOLONIZE 2. Design in unlikely places (India). A talk with Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan
Description: Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan studied Visual Communication at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India and is visiting professor at Nirma University, Ahmedabad. Her design practice focussed on social issues with NGOs, grassroots organisations and social movements in western India. Her research interests centre on nineteenth and twentieth-century craft and design in India against the backdrop of decolonization and nationalism. It is to note that we have recorded this interview many weeks before the tension between India and Pakistan in May 2025. Suchitra recommends us: On Dalit designOn designers from indigenous communities in...