Amrit Srinivasan

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Amrit Srinivasan is a professor at IIT Delhi, with research interests in comparative sociology of knowledge and culture applied to new technologies. She works on pedagogy of design through the Design for Emerging Contexts (DECOS) Network for sustainable, ICT-based student teaching in India, Brazil, Turkey and China, and through Lens - Learning for Sustainability, in which Thailand, Finland, the Netherlands and India are creating multipolar networks for curricula in Product Service Systems Design with Politecnico Milano, Italy. She recently initiated PAEDIA - Peoples Archive (Education Industry & the Arts) - a not-for-profit based in Delhi, to fulfill the growing demand in India, for curricula focusing on lay skills and innovation traditions within an STS framework.