Faculty

Biography

Prof. Suranjana holds 18 years of teaching and practice at NID along with professional practice and service as jury and reviewer for several Design schools like CEPT and Nirma University. She has a professional career spanning over three decades that includes teaching and practice in exhibition/ museum design, photography, audio visuals and design for television.

At NID, she also served as Chairperson of Design Office, managing large professional projects and has been instrumental in restarting the Exhibition Design.

Suranjana Satwalekar studied Exhibition Design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad after graduating with Honours in Philosophy from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

As Senior Design faculty at NID, she was instrumental in setting up NID’s multi-image Audio Visual Studio and re-starting its Exhibition Design Programme in 1997, heading both till 2001.

In 2003, she left NID to start independent design practice in Ahmedabad and subsequently in 2007, she set up Satwalekar Design Studio in Mumbai. She was also the Museum Design Advisor to Shapoorji Pallonji for the recently opened Dandi Kutir multi-media museum in Gandhinagar and served on the Interpretation Advisory Committee of the Punjab Heritage & Tourism Promotion Board’s ADB-assisted project – Interpretation of Built and Natural Heritage of Punjab.

She has travelled the subcontinent extensively on numerous photographic assignments for exhibitions and AVs. A large collection of her photographs are in the NID archives. Her photographs are featured in Rashtrapati Bhawan-The Story of the President’s House; Handmade in India, an encyclopaedia of Indian crafts and Great Monuments of India, a DK publication.Education