Dr.Smriti Saraswat

Smriti Saraswat is trained as an Architect & Interior-Designer, and specializes in Craft and Technology (with a Letter of Merit) from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Architecture and Planning at IIT Roorkee (Uttarakhand). She is passionate about Interior-Architecture; Craft and Technology; Cultural Heritage; Visual Narratives; Design Research and Writing; and Pedagogy. She has been doing research and documentation on cultural heritage and visual narratives (especially, art-craft-interior- architecture traditions of India) for almost five years now. She has written several papers and monographs based on these topics. She played a vital role in developing the framework for Space Making Crafts Workshops at Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre in Ahmedabad. She was also involved in developing prototypes, and writing monographs based on hese workshops. Further, she worked on the Craft Inventory of Gujarat, and categorically researched on varied aspects like materials involved; techniques; tools and machines; regional variations; and craftspersons involved. She is currently working on interior-architecture and crafts of Uttarakhand (funded by IIT Roorkee); and, a joint project on Model Village Development for the Juang Tribe of Odisha (funded by HUDCO). She is also pursuing her Ph.D. at IIT Roorkee, which is an attempt to explore frameworks for interventions in Space Making Crafts (architectural crafts) of Uttarakhand (India). She has organised several workshops at IIT Roorkee that focus on materials; craft and technology; interior-architecture; skill development; and, innovations. Contact: smritisaraswat@gmail.com, spacefap@iitr.ernet.in
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