Shivani Gupta

This workshop helped individuals overcome childhood conditioning's impact on their daily interactions. We explored conditioned behaviors, their effects & co-created tailored strategies.

Co-Creator & Host:

20 Chapters of Paperweigh t

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.

Curator & Host:

Gulabi Guftagoo

Gulabi Guftagoo | गुलाबी गुफ्तगू is an exploration of gender through music and poetry. It brings together a Hindustani vocalist along with a poet to speak, to converse about gender, in a way which is real, honest, dark and tender. The performance allows a re-looking at the body, the idea of the self and people’s perceptions of the self, all at once.

Curator:

Alif's Private Gathering

An immersive experience into music, poetry and stories by performing a set of unreleased spoken and sung poetry and sharing stories of Alif’s released work.

Curator & Feature:

Jungle In The City

Jungle in the City brought together the creatures of the city with the beings of the forest. With equal participation from the Adivasis, Musicians, Poets, Graffiti Artists, Facilitators and Humans of Bombay, this day will be experienced in shared oneness of all with nature.

Featured Poet,

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.

MENTOR & FACULTY:

PSYCHOLOGY IN DESIGN & USER RESEARCH

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.

Beyond the screen: UX with AI, ETHICS, inclusivity & behavioural science

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.

SPEAKER & CO-
FACILITATOR: COMPLEX
CONTEXTS WORKSHOP

Enhancing Design Tools and Approaches
for Complex Contexts: How can we
enhance our primary research approach
to uncover the dynamics and complexity
of people’s contexts? In what ways can
we enhance our use of synthesis
artifacts such as journey maps to more
accurately reflect the complexity?

Recent Speaking Engagements

Press, Articles & Productions

KITAAB

2015, Edinburgh | Sun & The Moon

2017, Goa | Dear Girl From Pakistan

2018, Mumbai | Kintsugi, Rise, The Box

2023, Chicago | 10 Poem Feature Set

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

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