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He is an Industrial Design professional and a maker by practice. He likes to take a methodological approach to understand human behaviors related to a task and use them in Problem-solving processes. He has learned to explore form, structure, function, materials, semiotics, systems thinking, and various other aspects of making things. He has collaborated with various design and manufacturing setups and provided design consultancy within the fields of Home Appliance, Design Research & Innovation, and Societal Design.
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Hemant Kumar
Assistant Professor
He is an industrial design professional and has completed his undergraduate education in Product Design from NID, Ahmedabad. He has collaborated and worked with various design & manufacturing setups to provide design consultancy for 9+years, within the fields of Home Appliances, Design for Social Needs, and research & innovation among others. A few of the significant achievements include designing a wall- mounted washing machine for IFB, innovation projects for Godrej Innovation Centre, projects for P&G Brussels at IIT Guwahati, Makers Space at SECMOL Ladakh with Sonam Wangchuk etc.
In recent years, he has worked at various MSME setups in the Kerala region. He has also
worked as an Assistant Professor at the Chitkara Design School in Punjab, where he helped
in the curriculum design and coordination for the foundation program.
Here, at the School of Design Innovation, Mahindra University, he is focused on providing
students with the necessary guidance in the process of designing Problem-solving and
Value-creating products.
- July 2006 – April 2014: B.Des, NID Ahmedabad, India
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- August 2026- Present: Assistant Professor, School of Design Innovation, Mahindra University
- September 2013 – August 2021: Product Designer, Coordinator, Various setups
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