Tanishka Kachru
Responsibilities
Discipline Lead, Exhibition Design (B Des)
Discipline Faculty, Exhibition Design
Tanishka Kachru earned an MA in History of Design and the Decorative Arts (2001) from Parsons School of Design, New York and B.Arch (1997) from the University of Bombay. She offers courses in History & Theory of Exhibition Design, Design for Museums and Heritage spaces, as well as Design for Social Change.
Tanishka's research interests are in the areas of design histories from postcolonial and feminist perspectives; digital heritage interpretation and discourses of heritage in smart cities. Recent publications include “Sujata Keshavan: Women designers in India” in Resnick, Elizabeth, ed. Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon, Bloomsbury (forthcoming in 2025); The Routledge Handbook of Craft and Sustainability in India (2024) co-editor with Reecca Reubens; Contemporary Reflections on NID History: Teaching through the Design Archive in Bauhaus Imaginista Journal (2019); Nakashima at NID (2017) co-editor with Adira Thekkuveettil; "The Staging of Indian National Identity through Exhibitions: 1850 to 1947" in Penny Sparke and Fiona Fisher, eds. The Routledge Companion to Design Studies (2016).
Recent projects include Design and implementation of a Permanent Exhibition for IIMA-Archives, Ahmedabad (2021); Design and implementation of a Museum on the life of Swami Vivekananda for Ramakrishna Mission at Khetri, Rajasthan (2019); Design and implementation for Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum, Ahmedabad (2017); Design and delivery of a training program ‘Transformation in Museums’ for National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) in 2013; Design of a Community Museum in Banaskantha, Gujarat for the non-profit organisation, SEWA (2012); Design researc for developing an integrated heritage-based development plan for Taj Ganj, Agra for the Directorate of Tourism, UP (2012)
Recent curatorial works include the "Nakashima at NID" exhibition 2016, on the life and work of Japanese-American craftsman George Nakashima; co-curator with Neelima Hasija of "Centre and Beyond" exhibition February 2019 that presents fifty years of ceramic and glass design at NID; curator of "The Scholarly Work of Haku Shah: Votive Terracotta of India" exhibition February-March 2019.