Smriti Saraswat
Architect / Interior Designer
Smriti is trained as an Architect and Interior-Designer. She specializes in Craft and Technology (with a Letter of Merit) from CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Nowadays is currently an Assistant
Professor at Department ofArchitecture and Planning at IIT Roorkee (Uttarakhand). She has been doing research and documentation on cultural heritage and visual narratives (especially, art-craft-interior-architecture traditions of India) for almost five years now. She has written several papers and monographs based on these topics. Her post-graduate dissertation on “Narratives in Interior-Architecture: Stone Craft, 0 Medium” has been published and showcased at varied platforms.
She played a vital role in developing the framework for Space Making Crafts Workshops at Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre in Ahmedabad. She was also involved in
developing prototypes, and writing monographs based on these workshops. Further, she worked on the Craft Inventory of Gujarat, and categorically researched on varied aspects like materials
involved, techniques, tools and machines, regional variations, and craftspersons involved.
She is currently working on interior- architecture and crafts of Uttarakhand (funded by IIT Roorkee); a joint pilot research on Iaunsar tribe of village Kalsi in Uttarakhand; and, a ioint project on Model Village Development for the Iuang Tribe of Odisha (funded by HUDCO).
She is also pursuing her Ph.D. at IIT Roorkee, which is an attempt to explore frameworks for interventionsin Space Making Crofts (architectural crafts) of Uttarakhand (India).
She has organized several workshops at IIT Roorkee that focus on materials, craft, technology, interior-architecture and innovations.
Handcrafted fan