Visting Distinguished Professor at IIT Indore, and Mentor, Centre for Design Studies, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore; Kirti Trivedi is a former Professor at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Kirti Trivedi was born in India in 1948. After a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he did postgraduate studies in Industrial Design at IIT Bombay, and the Royal College of Art, London. He initiated and founded India’s first Master of Design Programme in Visual Communication in 1981. The same year, he worked as an UNESCO Fellow in Japan, under the guidance of Prof. Sugiura Kohei, and was introduced by him to the intellectual depth and the richness of Asian design. He has been engaged in research and documentation of the classical design traditions of India and Asia since 1984, with several publications on Indian design traditions. Besides teaching and researching design, he is active as a design consultant in the areas of graphic design, book design, exhibition and museum design, environmental graphics, signage and product design.

His current research is in developing appropriate interaction design solutions for Indian needs based on emerging technology possibilities; and in understanding Asian design, as Founder Director of ADARG – Asian Design and Art Research Group; and Innovations in Education, EdTech and Learning Environments. He is currently engaged in developing a new Design Education Program for the post-AI world.