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About Geetha Narayanan:

Geetha Narayanan, is the Founder-Director of Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology as well as Mallya Aditi International School in Bangalore, India. As a visiting faculty member at Westminster Institute of Education, UK, Geetha has taught in both the master’s and undergraduate teacher education programmes. She has also been a visiting faculty member and researcher with the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Project at the MIT Media Lab in Boston, MA.

Geetha Narayanan has dedicated her life to finding and establishing new models of educational institutions that are creative, synergistic and original in their approach to learning. To know that she worked for many years with Seymour Papert indicates the type of thinking that energizes her work. Geetha’s primary focus areas are co-conceptualizing and building a networked, open institutional space that merges the contemporary art practices with design thinking and new digital technologies. For over 25 years she has been ideating, advocating, conceptualizing and implementing new pedagogical forms (such as studio labs and the interim semester) that enable and support a more integrated and less balkanized form of art and design instruction; one that is acceptable to both students and teachers in the Indian context. She has spent much time developing and implementing programmes that blend design thinking, problem, project or place-based learning with new digital technologies as well as business models that sustain a creative community of students and faculty through the conceptualization, development and implementation of various forms of educational entrepreneurship.

Geetha’s 2007 article, A Dangerous But Powerful Idea: Counter Acceleration and Speed with Slowness and Wholeness.