Faculty Profile

Name : Sindhuree Iyengar

Profile/Designation : Associate Professor

Education :

Bachelors in Architecture (Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine arts University)

Masters in Sociology (Nagarjuna University)

Post Graduate programme in project Management (PGPPM), 2018 NICMAR (Pune)

Masters in Architecture, Project management ( M.Arch, Mumbai University)

Email : sindhureeiyengar@sushantuniversity.edu.in

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sindhuree-Iyengar/

Short Biography (250- 300 words)

Sindhuree Iyengar is an educator and researcher having an M. Arch ( project Management), Master’s in Sociology and Bachelors in Architecture. She has teaching experience of nine years in the field of Design and Architecture with two years of field experience. She has a keen interest in the cross-over between fields of creative thinking in the making of space, experientiality and narrative-based design methodologies. She has been extensively working on inside-out approach of space making. MS. Iyengar is Associate Professor in School of Art and Architecture, Sushant University. She teaches Architectural Design since 2012, conducting undergraduate studios at the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, (SSAA) and BVCOA, India. Ms. Iyengar has taught at SSAA from 2015 to June 2019 and prior to this she was an assistant professor at Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai (2012-2014). She also pursued her Masters in Architecture ( 2020 – 2022) from Mumbai University and also worked as a visiting faculty in Vivekanand Education society’s college of Architecture during this period.

Research Interests

Explorations of Traditional Architectural and Building Systems, Role of Experientiality in the Design of Space, Developing Design Tools for Facilitating the Creative Process.

Cultural Studies, Role of handicrafts in enhancing cultures

Symposia / Conferences / workshops Conducted

Coordinator – Webinar on Architectural Thinking representation and narration May 2020,BVCOA,Navi Mumbai.
Coordinator – Council of Architecture Teachers training programme (Architectural theory) Dec 2019, BVCOA, Navi Mumbai

Coordinator / Mentor -Joint studio, ‘Designing in Historic context: Redevelopment of Watson Hotel in Kalaghoda District, Navi Mumbai.
Coordinator / Mentor – Ethos Acedge Joint Design studio – Second year design plug in
Member/ contributor for smart cities – Knowledge Summit 2, Indo French collaborative summit on education, October 2019, Lyon, France. (By invitation)

Conference Paper Presentations

Amrita Madan, Sindhuree Iyengar, Kingshuk Datta, Abu Talha Farooqi (THANIMA 2, Conference, Calicut, India)

“ A Pedagogical approach towards the future of Live Heritage contexts, A Case of Shahjahanabad in the Second Year Design Studio”

Amrita Madan, Sindhuree Iyengar (University of Brimingham, UK)

A Tale of Two Bridges, Two participates, two cities

Bridges as landscapes of cultural and political identity

Amrita Madan, Sindhuree Iyengar (Veranda, SSAA Journal) Experiential Narrative as a tool for space making
Sindhuree Iyengar, Masulipatnam – The pre-colonial port town of India, IGNCA,New Delhi.
Amrita Madan, Sindhuree Iyengar (Displaced Identity – In search of meaning in the transported cultural landscapes of Tibet in India | A reflection into the nature and culture relationship of Tibetan Architecture) , ACLA, Malaysia.
Sindhuree Iyengar, Ritu G Deshmukh Regeneration of the city through its cultural rootedness, A case study of Chalai Bazaar, Trivandrum

FDPs Attended

(Starting from the Latest)

AICTE ( ATAL Academy) online FDP on Climate sciences held between 2-6 November 2020.
( AICTE,Online)

SSAA FacTOR – A home is not a house I To be is to build – An Online Faculty development programme.( 22-27 June 2020).
SSAA, Online

SSAA FacTOR – Advanced level research and training workshop with Dr.Peter Scriver ( University of Adelaide, Australia), 2019.
Sushant school of Art and Architecture,Gurugram.