Meet the Faculty
The PID
league.
A community of designers, creative practitioners, and industry experts from across India and the world - connecting students with real-world experience, studio practice, and new perspectives in design.
70+
Faculties shaping
India’s next designers.
India’s next designers.
10+
Elite institutions
NIFT · NID · FTII · CEPT · Domus.
NIFT · NID · FTII · CEPT · Domus.
06
Design disciplines covered
across PID's programmes.
across PID's programmes.
A league of practitioners from NIFT, NID, FTII, CEPT, MICA, Domus Academy Milan, Raffles Singapore, IIT Guwahati and beyond - bringing global studio practice into PID’s classrooms.
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Our Team.
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Visiting Faculty
Voices from practice.
Beyond our core team, PID hosts a rotating circle of visiting mentors - working designers, directors and founders who drop in to lead masterclasses, review portfolios, and bring the live industry into the studio.
01
Ms. Kanika Gupta
Art Historian
Indian art, sculpture and visual culture contain layers of meaning that often remain invisible to contemporary viewers. My work focuses on interpreting Indian aesthetics, mythology, visual culture and material traditions through the intellectual and philosophical frameworks that shaped them.
02
Ar. Soham Shah
Soham Shah is an architecture and design professional who brings a thoughtful perspective to space, interiors and storytelling. His session, Tales of Taliesin, explored Frank Lloyd Wright’s interpretation of architecture and interior design.
03
Seshadri Ayengar
Seshadri Ayengar is a Design-Tech Educator and Strategic Consultant with 15+ years of experience in design, technology, and innovation. He specializes in immersive experiences, UX, AI-driven design, and future-ready education.
04
Juliette Ravel
Juliette Ravel is a French textile designer based in Goa, exploring sustainable textiles, natural dyes and traditional craft. Through her studio, teaching and consulting, she bridges contemporary design with artisanal practices.
05
Atul Kedia
Atul Kedia is a designer, innovator, engineer, academician and strategist with 40+ years of experience across product design, engineering, design education, innovation, AI and institution building.
06
Mr Somaditya Banerjee
Mr Somaditya Banerjee A design leader with 20+ years of experience in UX, interaction and service design, innovation strategy and human-centered research. Passionate about sustainable design, behavioural systems and meaningful problem-solving.
07
Mr. Aseem Sinha
Aseem Sinha is an acclaimed Indian film editor with a career spanning over 50 films. His notable work includes Aar Ya Paar, Zubeidaa, Jajantaram Mamantaram and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero.
08
Param Sahib
Param Sahib is a fashion and design professional with 6.5 years of experience in commercial and high-end design. With a flexible mindset and a strong design-led approach, he believes in a rigorous and thoughtful design process.
09
Ar. Sushma Shah
Ar. Sushma Shah is an architect and design educator who brings imagination to life through thoughtful spatial design, inspiring learners to transform ideas into meaningful and lived experiences.
10
Ms. Rita Constantine
Ms. Rita Constantine is an experienced fashion design educator and mentor, known for shaping creative talent through her industry and academic expertise in fashion, design, and innovation.
11
Prof. Meenakshi Singh
Prof. Meenakshi Singh is a seasoned fashion illustrator and design educator with over 32 years of experience, known for inspiring creative expression through fashion illustration and visual storytelling.
12
Ar. Trushali Galodia
Ar. Trushali Galodia is an architect and principal architect at Studio Arpana, with over 6 years of experience shaping functional, thoughtful and detail-driven architectural and interior spaces.
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Mr. Utkarsh Seth
Mr. Utkarsh Seth A UX leader with 17+ years of experience building scalable design teams, driving organizational transformation, and aligning user experience strategy with business impact and product innovation.
Learn from the best.
Apply for PU-DAT 2026.
Direct access to over 51 working designers, directors, and educators - from your very first studio at PID. Applications for the 2026 cohort are open.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
PID’s faculty are practising designers and academics, many from institutions such as NID, NIFT, FTII and CEPT, plus visiting experts from the design industry.
Over 50 mentors across the design disciplines, supported by visiting faculty and an industry Board of Studies.
Yes. Alongside full-time faculty, PID brings in visiting faculty and guest mentors who work in studios and the wider design industry.
They combine real studio, industry and teaching experience, so students learn from people who practise design, not only teach it.
Yes – explore the B.Des programmes or apply through PU-DAT to study with them.
It is a panel of senior academics and industry members who guide the curriculum so it stays current and job-ready.