AT A GLANCE
Priya Krishnamoorthy Iyer
Area of Practice: Exploration of urban spaces
OVERVIEW
Priya is an architect and furniture designer by training. She has been teaching at Srishti since 2012. Her areas of interest include design history, design thinking, ideas of aesthetics and beauty, colour and form studies and the exploration of urban spaces.
EDUCATION
Post-Graduate Diploma Programme, Industrial Design (Furniture & Interior Design), NID, Ahmedabad. B.Arch, Sathyabama Engineering College, University of Madras, Chennai.
WORK EXPERIENCE
‘-SMI, Bangalore
APRIL 2020- PRESENT
– Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore/ Pune Faculty, Creative Manufacturing NOVEMBER 2015 – APRIL 2020
– Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore
Faculty JULY 2012 – JUNE 2014
– IILM School of Design, Gurugram Assistant Professor
FEBRUARY 2011 – JUNE 2012
– Teaching (as Visiting Faculty)
ACADES, Coimbatore OCTOBER 2019
NID, Andhra Pradesh FEBRUARY 2019
NIFT, Chennai AUGUST 2014 – NOVEMBER 2015 DJAD, Coimbatore 2010-11
Courses facilitated
● Geometry
● Materials & Processes – Wood, Metal, Advanced materials & composites
● Measured/ Technical Drawing, Manual Drawing & Rendering, Ergonomics & Anthropometrics
● Design Thinking, Slow Design, Business Modelling, Entrepreneurship Basics, Lean Principles of
Manufacture, Sustainability, Social Mapping, Systems
● History of Design
● Visual Fundamentals- Colour, Principles & Elements of Design, Form & Material, Form & Structure
● Design Projects- Modularity, Folding, Flat pack furniture, Home Decor Products, Traditional Crafts & Crafts Based furniture
● Branding & Communication; Packaging & Graphic Design for products
● Spatial Design, Restaurant Design, Perception of Space, Photographing Spaces
– Freelance Designer
APRIL 2009 – FEBRUARY 2011
● Design Development Workshop using Screwpine at Chaikulam, Trivandrum, Kerala- DCH Crafts Project
● User Research Project (Small Cars)- Onio Design, Pune
● User Research (Perception of Colour in Interior Spaces)- NID- Asian Paints
● Development of Workshop Kits for Consumer Research
– Dovetail Furniture Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
Designer JUNE 2007 – MARCH 2009
– Elephant Design Pvt. Ltd., Pune
Furniture Designer JULY 2006 – FEBRUARY 2007
– INTERNSHIPS
● Diploma Project: Product Diversification for Bamboo Crafts in Uttaranchal, Uttaranchal Bamboo & Fibre Development Board, Dehradun
● Ironing Unit integrated with space for storage of clothes, Stylespa, Chennai
● Architectural training, Modarchs, Chennai; Ar. Benny Kuriakose, Chennai
INTEREST AREAS
Design History
Exploration of urban spaces.
Exploration of ideas of aesthetics and beauty
Colour & Form
Photography
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Facilitation of units related to: Product & Accessories, Furniture Design, Generic Skills with Foundation
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
1. Mentor Lab -Sultan Gunta Road- Restoration- Systems Map_B.Voc Year 3 2021
Map visualizing the ecosystem around timber traders, furniture makers and demolishers on the Sultan Gunta Road Bamboo Market- Mentor Lab – (Students: Veda, Nitya, Keerthana, Shubham)- B.Voc Semester 5, 2021
2. Design & Make, B.Voc First Year 2022
Design and prototyping of Storage Stool- (Student: Chandan)- B.Voc Semester 2, 2022
3. Design Thinking Tools-Generic Skills- Foundation- 2023
Understanding space, creating thematic environments- Foundation 2023
4. Mentored Project- Furniture Detailing & Prototyping From Reference- B.Voc First Year
2023
An exercise in collaborative making- Mentored Project- Furniture Detailing & Prototyping From Reference- (Students: Aarya, Dania, Dijetha)- B.Voc Semester 1, 2023
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
Photography
– Exhibition- Women’s group show December 2019, Sameeksha Art, Research, Media, CKP, Bangalore
– Photograph included in Ms. Sarita Sundar’s book- From the Frugal to the Ornate- Stories of the Seat in India- August 2022
