Gayatri Menon

Dr. Gayatri Menon is a senior faculty at the National Institute of Design, NID with more than 20 years of experience in design education, research and practice. Currently, she heads the Design foundation program at NID. She did her two‐and‐a half‐ year postgraduate course in Product Design at NID after completing her graduation in engineering and a short stint in the industry. She conducts courses in the areas of Design methods, Design thinking, Systems thinking and approach, Creativity, Play and learning, Research methods, Visual fundamentals, Design for social concerns, Design for special needs etc. and guides students on design projects.

As a design faculty at NID, she has worked as a project head and designer/consultant for several industries, public sector design, institution building, craft heritage and socially relevant projects such as UNIDO project for development of SSI,GI project for craft sector, Institution building for Jharcraft, Think design space for TCS etc. She has also conducted many training workshops in the areas of design thinking and opportunity mapping as well as creativity and innovation for industry professionals/ organizations such as TCS, Wipro, Maruti, ITC, Godrej, HUL, Asian paints, Accenture, CEB etc. She has been a board member of ITRA, International toy research association, part of the expert committee set up to introduce creativity and design in schools at NCERT, National council of education, research and training and is currently a senate member at IIT-Jammu.