I was born and brought up in India. While growing up in the city of New Delhi I decided to pursue design and completed Interior Architecture from India's top program at CEPT University in Ahmadabad. As my key interest lies in technology and design I drew along the lines which brought the two together appropriately in a cultural context. I traveled throughout India documenting handicrafts and skills in the rural and tribal parts of the country as attempt to appreciate and understand them.

With a surge in digital technologies, as an Interior Architect and an M.F.A student at RISD's Digital+Media program, I am concerned with how the digital media influences the notion of physical space. While the notion of digital space is still caught in the realm of virtuality, many act-react and physically triggered digital systems are beginning to make an impact on the line between real and virtual. With these diminishing boundaries it becomes important to re-investigate the relevance of these systems and there impact on social, cultural and more importantly the traditional values associated with a space within which we live. More than the concept of dematerialization of spaces, it is the loss of cultural and regional aesthetics embedded in design of a space that is problematic.

My Buzz words, If you ever come across any material relating to these words please send me the link or information about it. "Ambient Technology", "Smart Spaces", "Digital Environments/Spaces", "Intelligent Systems", "Self-aware Contexts" or any combinations of the above