Prof.Amresh Panigrahi

Senior Faculty,

Lifestyle Accessory Design  

National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar

Education:

Working Experience:

Portfolio:

Portfolio: https://sites.google.com/nid.edu/amreshpanigrahi/home 

Profile on NID website :https://www.nid.edu/people/detail/amresh-panigrahi

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amresh-panigrahi-548b0619/ 

Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/amreshdesignnid/ 

Email: 

amresh@nid.edu l +91 9898183213

Bio:

Amresh Panigrahi, a professor at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, is deeply involved in “Design for Ecosystems”. He teaches in Department of Lifestyle Accessory Design at NID Gandhinagar .His expertise lies in utilising design to enact positive change, particularly in assisting Barefoot Makers in specific regions and has driven numerous impactful projects benefiting traditional maker communities across India, Ethiopia, and Bhutan. His design and research endeavours are supported by NID working for various ministries such as the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), and the Loksabha Parliament of India. He has worked for international entities like the Royal Government of Bhutan. Additionally, he serves as an invited member of the International Coordination Committee (ICC) for the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Network, representing NID DESIS Lab.

Keyword research area of expertise  :

Design for Ecosystems, Social Innovation, Material Culture, Sustainable Design, Ethnographic Inquiry, Participatory Design, Systemic Integration, Qualitative Research Methodologies, Strategic Design, Craft Design, Trend Research, Consumer Lifestyle, Service Design, User-Centered Design, Design-led innovation. 

Academic Responsibility :

Senior Faculty, in Lifestyle Accessory Design National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India (www.nid.edu)

Current administrative Responsibility  (Rotational)

• Co-Head for Center for Bamboo initiative _Research and development, National Institute of Design Ahmedabad

• Science and liberal arts (SLA) Lead _National Institute of Design Gandhinagar campus 

• Coordinator for NID DESIS LAB,  NID Gandhinagar ( DESIS network International)

• Core committee member in ( Team DESIS International )

• Discipline Lead, LAD,National Institute of Design ,Ahmedabad

Recent engagement as Reviewer

• Invited as a blind reviewer for the Cumulus Johannesburg 2025. The conference is an international event (26-28 November 2025, Johannesburg) to bring researchers and practitioners in the emerging discipline of the conference theme: Design in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and beyond 

• Invited as a blind reviewer for the Servdes conference 2025. The conference is an international event (6-8 October 2025, Hyderabad),to bring researchers and practitioners in the emerging discipline of Service Design, with a conference theme “Empowering Diversity, Nurturing Lasting Impact” 

• Invited as a blind reviewer for the EK SIG 25 .The conference is an international event (12-13 May 2025, Budapest), bringing together researchers and practitioners in the emerging discipline of the conference theme, Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied Processes.

• Invited as a blind reviewer for the Servdes Conference 2023. The conference is a bi-annual international event (11-14 July 2025, Rio De Janeiro) to bring researchers and practitioners in the emerging discipline of Service Design, with a conference theme: Entanglements and flows: Service encounters and meanings

recent engagement in presenter 

• Presented a paper, "Preserving Cultural Significance in a Polycrisis World: The adaptive approach of artisanal communities " in RSD 13   is the Systemic Design Association’s professional development series 

Recent engagement as Author 

A bilateral research effort between research teams at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee in the UK and the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad  and IIT BHU Varanasi in India lead to the publication of a book called  “Brick, Bread and Biscuit” -The Chemical Recycling of Precious Metals from E-Waste for Jewellery Design in India ISBN 978-1-3999-8916-0. . Amresh Panigrahi has contributed 3 chapters in a book are

• Bridging Tradition and Innovation: Promoting Conscious Consumption in India: By Amresh Panigrahi (The chapter describes: Gold Buying Behaviour in Northern India - a strategy of e-waste recovery and changing perception for the extracted metals ) 

• Copper Patination By Amresh Panigrahi and Adwit Bhale(The chapter describes - possible artisan choice of Aesthetics and innovation in craft through frugal innovation and cleaver use of copper powder for consumer choice)

• Gulabi Meenakari exploring metal from e waste uses By Amresh Panigrahi(The chapter describes - artisanal practice of Gulabi mikanari and exploring the possible use of gold powder to counter the material deficit )

Active on social media:

slowly learning to be active on social media with my young friends 

Work on Research and film making 

001 USTTAD _Softstone craft Varanasi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4UiKhbNlo

On you tube sharing my teachings methods  :

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aYAOG-vzpM&t=11s

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r34GC3hg9U

Work leadership shared 

1. https://www.instagram.com/icic_nid/

2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXO4tyqtta8Ea3dEqVniA8Q

Personal achievement shared 

1. https://www.instagram.com/amreshdesignnid/

2. https://www.linkedin.com/in/amresh-panigrahi-548b0619/

3. https://nid.academia.edu/AmreshPanigrahi

On media promoting my conference activity  :

1. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/nid-goes-for-gandhian-design/articleshow/67649085.cms

2. More on Dept of LAD @ NID 

3. https://sites.google.com/nid.edu/lifestyleaccessorydesign/about-lad 

4. More on Craft Initiatives@NID 

5. https://sites.google.com/nid.edu/iciccraftfuturelab/home

6. More on NID DESISLAB @ NID 

7. https://sites.google.com/nid.edu/niddesislab/home