Shivani Gupta
Writer | Curator | Behavioral Scientist
Poetry
Published Poems:
7 poems - Ranger Magazine | Issue 7, 2024
2 poems - Mindful Poetry Moments | 5th Anniversary Issue, 2024
1 poem - Aureation Zine | June Issue, 2024
5 poems & Creator Interview - Baby Teeth Journal | May Issue, 2024
Featured Sets:
Finding Refuge Fundraiser | Chicago, 2024
South Asia Institute | Chicago, 2024
Chicago Mehfil | Chicago, 2023
Grandma's House | Chicago, 2023
Femme Fest | Chicago, 2023
SXonomics | Mumbai, 2018
Winner, Mumbai Poetry Slam | Mumbai, 2018
Kintsugi - Unerase Poetry | Mumbai, 2017
Partition - BBC, Forbes, Dawn, Gaza51 | Goa, Delhi, Mumbai, 2016
Fringe Festival | Edinburgh, 2015
Loud Poets Anniversary Show | Edinburgh, 2014
Curation & Hosting:
Paperweight | 20 chapters | Mumbai, 2016-2020
The Everyday Series | 5 themed workshops | Mumbai, 2016-2019
Words Out Loud | Mumbai, 2018
Jungle in the City Festival | Mumbai, 2017
Always open to Coffee & Conversation:
- Spoken Word Poetry
- Workshop Facilitation
- Experiences & Curation
- Science & Storytelling
- Artist Collaborations
PERSONAL PROJECTS: HIGHLIGHTS
Paperweight was an experiment born out of a performance artist’s need to not always be performing. To have a platform without a stage, and an audience without a mic. Open to artists from all languages, ages, identities and styles.
Co-Creator & Co-Writer,
Death Literacy Project
For many of us, our earliest experiences of death set a foundation for how we understand loss. After facilitating conversations on loss with parents, speaking to experts, and delving into research on loss and development, we are creating meaningful tools for children and adults to navigate loss.
Co-Creator & Facilitator:
The Everyday Workshop Series on Gender; Self-Care
This workshop helped individuals overcome childhood conditioning's impact on their daily interactions. We explored conditioned behaviors, their effects & co-created tailored strategies.
Elephant (Song)
This was a collaboration with Pavan Gaikwad: Elephant is a song about when we make friends with the elephant in the room and then are afraid to address it because if we do, the metaphoric Elephant might disappear.
Recent Speaking Engagements
Learn what drives behaviours, and motivations to understand people that products are designed for. Study why they react in a certain manner and what their actions mean which helps you design meaningful interactions.
What’s next - Where does the research craft go from here?
The research community in India has made significant progress in the past decade. However, to create a sustainable and thriving future for researchers in India, This discussion aims to envision the future and identify opportunities for user researchers to succeed.
Integrating principles and methodology of applied behavioural science, human centred design and AI for representation in UX research, process and outputs. We will cover what and how to leverage these adjacent fields across steps: team set-up, recruitment, questions, verbiage, framing, testing, synthesis frameworks and more.
Press & Productions
2023, Chicago | 10 Poem Feature Set
2018, Mumbai | Kintsugi, Rise, The Box
2017, Goa | Dear Girl From Pakistan
2015, Edinburgh | Sun & The Moon
Disclaimer: These are pieces from the last 10 years I still identify with, the others that may exist in some corner of the internet don't reflect me or my beliefs anymore