SriSriVidhiya Kalyanasundaram
SriSriVidhiya Kalyanasundaram is an artist, designer, educator, writer and researcher. She works at the fluid and exciting intersection of arts, media, education, design, environment and consciousness. She is the Dean for the interdisciplinary practices in Law, Environment and Planning at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India and heads the B.Des and M.Des programs in Information Arts and Information Design Practices and also the M.Des program in Earth Education and Communication. She also leads an integrated 5-year Doctoral program in Reimagining Transitions. She is the Principal Investigator at her lab Līla – Artist Research Studio, and one of the Principal Investigators at the Centre for Reimagining Transitions. Her doctoral work focused on Indian philosophical traditions, aesthetics and personal art practice to uncover intrinsic ecological consciousness. Blending expertise in research and practice across multiple disciplines, Srivi brings transdisciplinary approaches and insights to her work. She is the Founder-Director of Fooniferse Arts.
She has authored and illustrated several children’s books as well as stories for adults and is an award-winning writer and illustrator. Her stories and illustrations have been published by Katha, Puffin, Tulika, Ediciones Castillo, Oxford Bookstore Website, Reader’s Digest, Manoj Prakshan and others. She has worked for some of the leading educational/edutainment organizations like Sesame Street, NCERT, idiscoveri, Katha, Tulika, Birla Edutech, Ilango’s Art space, designing cutting edge books and media for children and young people on one end, and workshops, curriculum, teacher training modules, interdisciplinary strengthening, design and delivery of curriculums on the other. Her work through the creation of educational media reaches millions of children across India through reprints of textbooks, and creative products.
Srivi is a graduate of the University of Transdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU) Bangalore, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Cambridge), and Stella Maris College (Chennai).
