AT A GLANCE
Pithamber Rao Polsani, PhD
Area of Practice:
OVERVIEW
Dr. Pithamber Rao Polsani is a researcher, an educator, and a writer with 30+ years of academic and corporate experience. As a researcher he focuses on the junctures and zones of overlap between disciplines, which include art / literature / architecture/ philosophy / culture / technology. Being a scholar, he is genuinely committed to the idea of both, undertaking and promoting research. At Srishti he established a saucerful PhD Research Program in Art, Design and their intersections with Humanities and Social Sciences. Additionally, Dr. Polsani is supervising PhD students on their doctoral research who are working on a range of topics including architecture, urban design, artistic practice, archaeology of ideas, art history, fashion & jewellery design. Dr. Polsani prior to joining Srishti that taught at the University of Arizona, Bates College & Delhi University and lead, globally, learning academies for Royal Bank of Scotland & Nokia Siemens Networks.. He received his PhD in humanities from Purdue University and MPhil & MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
EDUCATION
PhD, M.Phil, MA
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Nokia Siemens Networks
- University of Arizona
- Bates College
- Delhi University
INTEREST AREAS
Philosophy and History of Art & Design
Architecture and Urbanism
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Chairperson, Centres of Excellence—Emerging Pedagogies and Practices and Creative and Cultural Expressions, Guiding 10 PhD students Teach PhD and Undergraduate courses.
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Award of PhDs to my students (see images)
Visvesh Khandolkar
Priya Joseph
Amikat Kini-Singh
Patcharaporn Lueraj
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
Some of Dr. Polsani’s publications and presentations include, Architecture: Between a Verb and a Noun, Design-Less, Monuments for Modernity: Architecture, Infrastructure and Memorializing Modern India, Living Elsewhere: Aesthetics and Anxieties of New Urbanism in India, Radical City: Possibilities for an India City (Sage, 2021) Allegories of the Present: Contemporary Art for the Indian Context, Ruinous Imaginations, How To Order Bricks: An Anthropology of Architectural Tectonics, Shadows Without Bodies: How was Modernism in Indian Art?, From the Remnants of Reality: Art and Practice of Suresh Kumar G, Like A Lizard That Junks its Tail in Distress: Homer Simpson is no Antigone, The Image in a Fatal Kiss: Dalí, Lacan and the Paranoiac Representation” and others.