KIRAN KULKARNI
Design Leadership
Teaching is a selfish getaway to learning. Teaching has always helped me to reiterate my knowledge on design, its problems, contexts and impacts to bring more clarity to my own work. Teaching forces me to get into serious reading, collate cutting edge research work in design; build my own models, hypothesis for research explorations.
I joined IDC, to re-learn concepts of design which had sparked curiosity in me during my masters course. I assisted senior professors: Prof A G Rao, Prof Uday Athvankar in subjects like Elements of Design, Studies in form, Product Interaction Design, Orientation, Design Thesis, CEED entrance committee.
Worked on consulting Design and Research for Unilever, UNIDO, Bamboo Studio
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I have been a guest faculty at
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National Institute of Design, Bangalore
(M.Des, Design Research methods)
Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad
(BTec, Design Thinking Course) National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore (Juror, B.Des Program)​








Invited Lectures, workshops
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2011
Dairies, my learning in design’, Design Degree Show, IIT, Bombay
Design research in India, Global Design Summit, Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA, USA
2012
Why do products fail? An intro to Design research, ID8, Sessions, Yahoo!
Fun with Props, Workshop at National Institute of Design, Bangalore
2015
Introduction to Design Thinking, Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad 2016
Stories on Design Research in India, UXNow Conference, New Delhi
2017
Designing with data, Co-Works, UX Project, Bangalore
2019
Mindset for making, RVCE, Bangalore 2021
Day in the life of UX Manager, UX India, Speaker, Panel