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Divya Thakur, Sandeep Sanguru, Vritima Wadhwa Singh and Ayush Kasliwal

The Future of Craft in Contemporary Furniture Design

Batool Alshaikh, Maitham Almubarak and Oliva Sartogo

Building The Future Vernacular

PK Das, Ratan J. Batliboi, Anuradha Parikh and Rohan Shivkumar

Interventions for Change: Rethinking Mumbai’s Masterplan

Pavitra Rajaram, Gursi Singh, Yash Bhanage, Doyel Joshi and Neil Ghose Balser

Beyond the Storefront: Creating Immersive Retail Worlds

Valérie Maltaverne and Misha Bains

Reimagining Tradition: From Craft to Collectible Design

Sonali Rastogi, Kunaal Maniar, Ranjeet Oak and Sneha Ullal Goel

Designing for Water: Sustainability in Urban India

Loïc Turpin, Mayank Mansingh Kaul and Amandine Roggeman

‘Textile Matters': Fostering Indo-French Collaborations

Ruchika Sachdeva, Asha Sairam, Apoorva Shroff and Tanya Khanna

Cross-pollination of Form, Fabric, and Space

Kohelika Kohli, Rajiv Parekh, Shantanu Garg and Mrudul Pathak Kundu

Designing Identity: Taste, Luxury, and the Contemporary Indian Interior

Sussanne Khan, Simone Arora, Pasquale Junior Natuzzi and Sukriti Sharrma

The Rising Influence of Interior Design and Curation in Lifestyle

Vikas Dilawari, Atul Kumar and Aahana Miller

Mumbai Deco: Preserving a Modern Legacy

Ricardo Bofill and Tanya Khanna

The Architecture of Time: Memory & Future

Ranjeet Oak, Puran Kumar, Akshat Bhatt and Tanya Khanna

Mindful Design for a Changing World

Tarun Tahiliani, Abha Narain Lambah, and Shalini Misra and Anica Mann

Heritage Reimagined

Kulapat Yantrasast and Priya Paul

Architecture for Cultural Flourishing

Kevin Hui

The Road Less Travelled

Nozer Wadia, Vaishali Kamdar, Kunal Maniar and Ritu Nanda

The Irrepressible Nozer Wadia

Prateek Sadhu, Matt Chitharanjan, Sonal C Holland, Anjali Batra and Shreya Soni

In Fine Company

Adam Hudec, Miguel Leiro, Ananya Singhal and Mrinalini Ghadiok

Climate Futures

Amit Syngle, Mále Uribe Forés and Eeshan Kashyap

Decoding the ColourNext Forecast

Peter D’Ascoli, Tim Curtis and Ritu Sethi

Preserving Indian Craft

Marcial Jesús

Immersive, Outstanding & Outrageous Urban Spaces

José Lévy and Amandine Roggeman

On Freedom to Design

Alan Abraham, Sarika Shetty, Amit Aurora and Tanya Khanna

Designing for Well-being

Arianna Lelli Mami, Chiara di Pinto and Farah Ahmed Mathias

The Multi-hyphenate Paradigm

Monika Choudhary, Aparna Kaushik, Amrita Guha, Sonali Bhagwati and Kalyani Chawla

Redefining Luxury Design

Sebastian Herkner

Crafted Emotions

Brian Yang

Giving Form to the Future

Monisha Ahmed, Jesmina Zeliang, Nandan Ghiya and Arjun Bahl

Art and Design as a Community Catalyst

Salma Samar Damluji and Shonan Purie Trehan

Architecture in Crisis

Palinda Kannangara

The Beauty of Doing Less

Ashiesh Shah, Lily Froehlicher, Tarini Jindal and Florence Louisy

Design Cosmopolitanism

Federico Fraternale, Priyanka Shah, Siddharth Kerkar and Anisha Rachel Oommen

Neoteric Design Philosophies

Ravi Vazirani, Gautam Sinha, and Vivek Sahni

Marketing For Design Centric Brands

Jesh Krishnamurthy, Srila Chatterjee

Creating Change, One Idea at a Time

Anand Asinkar, Iram Sultan, Vivek Gupta, and Alfaz Miller

Human-Centric Design

India

Sou Fujimoto, Oliva Sartogo, Ambrish Arora

Rethinking & Imagining Urban Landscapes

India

Arjun Malik

Recovery and Catalysis: In Search of Equilibrium

India

Shabnam Gupta, Sandeep Khosla and Verendra Wakhloo in conversation with Preeti Singh

Role of the Vernacular in the Indian Contemporary Design Language

India

Sonali Rastogi

Designing Tomorrow: Defining India's Next Decade in Architecture

India

Christiane Lemieux

Design, AI, Social Media, and the Future of Design

United States of America

Joe Doucet

Creative Opportunities Sustainability Provides to Problem Solving

United States of America

Kate Malone

An Addiction to Clay

United Kingdom

Ambrish Arora

Be the Change You Want To See

India

Amanda Talbot

Tilly (Amanda's Heart-Centred AI)

Australia

Raghu Rai, HH YKC Wadiyar and Nikhil Mehra in conversation with Dikshu Kukreja

Deciphering Design

India

Salil Sadanandan, Deepika Jindal in conversation with Kohelika Kohli

Building Brands and Legacies

India

Amit Syngle, Sandeep Bogadhi, Rikki Kher, Parag Tandel and Avinash Kumar in conversation with Manju Sara Rajan

Forecasting Colours & Materials for India

India

Nuru Karim

Architectural Catalysts: Shaping a Green Future through Innovation and Sustainability

India

Phillippe Fouche

Transcending Form: How an Approach to Light, Space, and Life is Shaping SAOTA's Designs Internationally

South Africa

Madhav Raman

Building in the Time of Climate Change

India

Ekta Parekh, Farah Ahmed and Sarah Sham in conversation with Anjali Mody

Women in Design: The Multiple Hats We Wear to Run a Successful Design Practice

India

Peter Zumthor in conversation with Bijoy Jain

A Dialogue

Switzerland and India

Sanjay Puri

The Journey

India

Itai Palti

When Text Will Generate Architecture, Which Words Will We Choose?

Israel

Paola Navone in conversation with Sunil Sethi

Between Industry and Handicraft: Design as Passion

Italy and India

Sanne van der Burgh

Technology & Design

Netherlands

Sameep Padora

Consequence of Practice

India

Shimul Javeri Kadri

Two Plus Two Equals Ten: Uncovering the Hidden Brief

India

Ayaz Basrai

How to Stay Relevant as a Designer in 2025

India

Arthur Mamou-Mani

The Promise of Eco-Parametric Architecture

United Kingdom

Manuela Gatto

Zaha Hadid Architects’ Innovative Use of Technology: From Sustainability to AI

United Kingdom

Sabine Marcelis

The Power of Materials

Netherlands

Habibeh Madjdabadi

The Story of Land & People Through Architecture

Iran

Bijoy Ramachandran, Soumitro Ghosh & Premjit Ramachandran in conversation with Riyaz Tayyibji

DOSHI - An Homage

India

Nguyên Đúc Trung & Marek Obtulovič

The Cultural Identity in Architecture

Vietnam

Vinu Daniel

The Resurgence of Intuition, Site & the Architect

India

Emmanuel Gallina

Elegance Of Simplicity

France

Rooshad Shroff On Function Vs Design

Toyo Ito On Three Ways In Which Architecture Can Be Simplified

Tom Dixon’s View On Design

Robert Verrijit & Shefali Balwani On How Can You Find The Right Balance Between Sustainability and Luxury

Iram Sultan On Global Influences On Products

Arjun Malik On What Module Would You Add To The Current Architectural Courses

Arjun Malik On Can Design Speak a Universal Language

Sarah Fotheringham & Maninder Singh On Role of Designers in Promoting Indian Crafts

Oscar and Ponni Concessao On ” What Is Good Design? “