Professor cum Dean
Trained with a strong base in strategic thinking and ideation from National Institute of Design Ahmedabad, Mr Sasi Gopal Menon has been working both as a design practitioner and a design educator/ academician since 1998. After his graduation in Industrial Design with specialisation in Product Design, he ventured into academics early on in his career. While his experience in academics gives him the necessary skills to strategize and roll out programmes with focus on Design Thinking, Design Methods and Design Research, his exposure in the field enables the translation of those strategies into real-time, responsive design projects.
As an educator, he has been instrumental in creating, setting up and successfully administering programmes in design for livelihoods, design foundation studies, product design, design strategy as well as training programmes for artisans and non-design students. As a design educator and strategist, his focus is on higher education and its relevance in creating responsible professionals for future needs and challenges. As an administrator, he is passionate about building an academic culture that is not only robust and relevant, but also takes the needs of all stakeholders into account.
He has been part of prestigious bodies like the CII National Committee on Design, and as a jury member for the India Design Council’s I-Mark Awards.