A. Sreedharan is a self-taught artist and an electronic engineer by profession, based in New Delhi. He read B. Tech in Electronic Engineering from KIET, Gurgaon, and left a full-fledged career as an engineer to pursue his creative passion few years ago. He has been working and exhibiting as an artist since then. He has extensively shown his works in India and abroad, both in solo and group exhibitions. Apart from painting, he often takes up photographic assignments. In his paintings, Sreedharan works in geometric abstraction, which is a combination of constructional elements and abstract space.

Antara Pain is a self-taught artist and educator, based in New Delhi. She runs a home-based center and works with children between the age group of 5-12 years with mathematics and art at its core. She believes this stimulates curiosity and understanding of concepts amongst children. She holds a postgraduate degree in Statistics from Mumbai University and a postgraduate diploma in Modern and Contemporary Indian Art and Curatorial Studies from Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai. Antara left her full-fledged career at an MNC in Mumbai to pursue her creative passion in 2017 and exhibits her art, while being involved in freelance illustration assignments, art projects and workshops. She brings in the dynamics of art and science in her engagement with children, and teaches mathematics at Pathways, an IB school in Noida since 2019. 

Nishita Mohta is an architect by education, who has worked across multiple creative disciplines – from graphics to experience curation and writing. Currently, she is the Project Manager at Thought Over Design (a brand strategy and design studio based in Mumbai and Goa) and also the creator of ‘Vaccines For Fear’, a project which enables us to reflect on and soothe our creative blocks. Through both these roles, she focuses on the processes and practices that enable a creative environment, collaborations and authentic creative output across disciplines. She is a Gold-Medalist from the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi and an alumni of the 2019-20 cohort of the Creative and Cultural Businesses Programme at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Girisha Sethi is an architect and a researcher in the domain of urban studies. A graduate from the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and the University of Stuttgart in Germany, her interests and experience lie in the phenomenology of spaces and places, strategic planning and social design. She has worked in the urban realm through various players - architects, planners, researchers, government agencies and non-profit organisations in the humanitarian sector, and through contrasting approaches including both top-down and bottom-up. With CASP, she worked as the project manager for the Creative Learning and Practice (CLaP) Program in 2019-2020 as the project helped bring together her management, coordination and communication skills with design thinking and her motivation to work in participatory processes.

Damini Rathi is an architect and researcher, based in New Delhi. Following a degree in Architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture, she pursued a Masters in International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona. She has worked at the Center for Public Interest Design at Portland State University (USA) which gave her first-hand knowledge of asset-based community development processes and engagement practices with communities. Through her work in participatory research, community engagement and public design, Damini explores the issues of equity and appropriation of urban spaces by focusing on narratives of marginalized communities.

Kanchan Joneja is a multidisciplinary designer, researcher, and writer with over three years of experience in the development sector. Trained as an architect at the School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi, she believes strongly in a bottom-up, collaborative approach to solving issues in our environment and society at large. She has experience working on projects across India in the domain of urban and rural development in organizations that strive to create positive impact. As Co-Founder of Off Centre Collective, she scales impact through research, strategy and visual design. 

Yashwin Dev is an architect, graphic designer, and product designer based in Mangalore. A recent graduate (B. Arch) from the School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi, he has worked as an assistant/junior architect at MOBA Studios, Prague, under Igor Kovačević and Centre for Central European Architecture (CCEA), Prague, under Yvette Vašourkováa, amongst many others. He was part of the design team for the project with the Historic Viadukt, on a documentary film, ‘Most, VěcVeřejná (Bridge, Public Issues). He believes that design should be sensitive to culture, and has a keen sense of photography and deep interest to work with children related to architecture and photography.

Annam Irfan is a graduate from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and is pursuing her Masters in Urbanism from the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. As an architect and designer, she has experimented with different genres to find her interest within the field of design. She worked for CRY (Child Rights and You) as a graphic designer where she developed an interest in working in the field of education. She has been a junior architect in a core architecture firm, and is currently interning with the Symbiotic Urban Movement at the Delft University of Technology. She freelances as an editor, illustrator, writer, researcher for causes that center around sustainable agriculture, alternate green lifestyles, better education, better cities, and hence may be a better future for our planet. 

Suvajit Mondal is an artist and ceramist, based in New Delhi. He completed his Bachelors in Fine Arts (BFA) from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, and post-graduation (Masters in Fine Arts, MFA) from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan. His interest in ceramics grew from an early age and he received the National Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, while pursuing his post-graduation and also earned the 56th National Award from the Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi. He was selected for a student exchange program at Burapha University, Thailand, which widened his horizon. On his return, he has worked as an instructor and studio-in-charge at the Sanskriti Kala Kendra and at Ceramic Center, a Blue Pottery venture in Delhi. He was visiting faculty at College of Art, New Delhi (2019-20), and currently pursues his practice in his own studio, The Potter's Life.

Tilottama B. is a practitioner of creative intersectionality and an art educator. They have a keen interest in making zine, graphic books, and comics as a mode of communication, and is one of the co-founders of their collective, factorial(z). In 2020, they were shortlisted for the Samdani Artist Grant initiated by Samdani Art Foundation, and in both Bangladesh and India, Tilottama contributes as an art educator in various institutes, schools, and as a freelancer. In 2019, they was part of ‘Call To Disorder: Experiments in Practice and Research’ curated by Vidya Shivadas (FICA) along with other curatorial teams, at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India. Their other participations include the 18th Asian Art Biennale, National Gallery of Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tilottama has a decade of experience in facilitating creative learning in multimedia especially with children and also fluid humyn’s social issues.

Anchal Sayal is an artist and primary educator based out of Gurgaon. After pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Fashion and Lifestyle Accessory Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology Kangra, she sought to explore the use of art and design as strong tools to drive change in the social sector. Over the last few years, she has engaged in multiple community driven projects ranging from researching on temporary shelters for construction workers, public art graphics for waste management solutions, collage art workshops for children and adults, participatory planning tools to inform the Delhi’ Master Plan’41, publications and printed matter on early childhood care and education, and informal livelihoods. She is currently working as a full-time teaching fellow at Teach For India at a low income government school for girls in Aya Nagar, New Delhi. Her hope is that all children and communities actively get artistic opportunities to transform their lives.