Experience Lab:
At Department of Design, IIT Delhi, I founded the Experience Lab in 2023. Experience Lab conducts research in the areas of Creative and Aesthetic Experiences, User research, Culture studies, and Phenomenology. It works on research and consultancy projects as well as conducts research for Doctoral and Masters thesis.
Areas of Research Interest:
Creative and Aesthetic experiences, Culture and Craft, Design Cognition, architectural experiences and Visual design, Phenomenology
Conferences Organised:
February 2024
2 day conference
Organising Chair, Futuring Design Education 2024, IITD 2 day International conference, 10th & 11th February 2024, Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Delhi, India
https://design.iitd.ac.in/FDE_2024/
January, 2017
3 day Conference
Organising Chair, International Conference on Creativity and Cognition in Art and Design (ICCCAD), NID-NIMHANS joint three-day international conference,
19,20,21 January 2017, NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore, India
November, 2017
2 day Conference
Organising Chair, Culture, Design & Cognition (CDC2017), NID-IGNCA RCB joint National Conference,
3,4 November 2017, IGNCA, Bangalore
Selected Publications:
Book Publication:
· Futuring Design Education (eds.) Sharma, A. & Poovaiah, R., Springer Nature, 2024 (in production)
· Creativity and Cognition in Art and Design (eds.) Sharma, A. & Rajeswaran, J., Bloomsbury, 2017
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/creativity-and-cognition-in-art-and-design-9789386349880/
Papers:
· Chanda, T., & Sharma, A. (2024). Shivarapatna Stone Craft In Karnataka - Exploring The Transformative Role Of Innovation In Traditional Handicraft And Cultural Identity, ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts, 4(2CDSDAD), 174–185.
https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v4.i2CDSDAD.2023.595
· Design Cognition while using digital tools: A Distributed Cognition Approach. In 2021 5th International Conference on Digital Technology in Education (ICDTE 2021), September 15–17, 2021, Busan, Republic of Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pg. 30-39 (with
https://doi.org/10.1145/3488466.3488491
· Managing User Experience (UX) Design Practice: Approaches and Considerations. In: Chakrabarti A., Chakrabarti D. (eds) Research into Design for Communities, Volume 1. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 65 pp 239-248. Springer, Singapore (with Anshuman Sharma)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_21
· A Heuristic Inquiry into the phenomenon of ‘letting go’ in creative process of designers, Qualitative Research on Illness, Wellbeing and Self-Growth: Contemporary Indian Perspectives, (Pp: 182-201), edited by Dr.Kumar Ravi Priya and Dr.Ajit K. Dalal, Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-13-802037-5 (2014)
(Peer Reviewed)
http://www.tandfebooks.com/action/showBook?doi=10.4324%2F9781315539829&
· Investigation of Creative Experience of Creator and Aesthetic Experience of Viewer in Design, Research into Design: Supporting Sustainable Product Development(Pp: 631-38), ed. Chakravarthy, A., Research Publishing, Singapore, ISBN: 978-981-08-7721-7 (2011) (Peer Reviewed)
https://www.designsociety.org/publication/32405/Investigation+of+Creative+Experience+of+Creator
· Investigating the experience of ‘letting go’ in creative process of designers, Research into Design: Supporting Multiple Facets of Product Development (Pp.86-93), ed. Chakravarthy, A., Research Publishing, Singapore, ISBN: 978-981-08-2277-4 (2009) (with Ravi Poovaiah) (Peer Reviewed)