Karin G Oen Editor & Author

Peer M. Sathikh is an artist–designer–engineer who has had the privilege to study all three at institutes of repute. Sathikh joined NTU in 2008 after twenty-two years of experience as a designer and entrepreneur. He has been involved in both design industry initiatives as well as in design education at all levels in Singapore since 1992. A serial entrepreneur, Sathikh co-founded an injection moulding company in Chennai, India that is fast becoming a sought-after supplier for producing specialised parts for the automotive industry.

Prof. Ravi Poovaiah is a senior faculty at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. His pedagogic as well as research and design interests are in fields related to Interaction Design, Communication Design, Product Design and specifically in Visual Language, Information Visualization, Visual Narratives, Collaborative Open Learning Environments and Designing for Children.

Venkatesh Rajamanickam is a Professor at the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. He is a HCI designer, educator and researcher. His Information Design Lab at IIT Bombay utilizes graphic design, interactive computer graphics, data-processing algorithms and emerging technologies to address challenging problems in data, design and art.

Karin G. Oen is a curator and art historian based in Singapore where she is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Art History, at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities. She works on historical, modern, and contemporary creative practices related to the transcultural and the transmediatic. Starting in July 2024, she will also take on the role of Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.