AT A GLANCE
Shyam Aravindakshan
Area of Practice:
OVERVIEW
Shyam has over 20 years of experience in project development and delivery focused on employment generation through craft-based skill and design development for economically challenged rural communities. Shyam has extensively worked in craft product design and development, supply chain management, training and skill upgradation, funding and business development. Additionally, he has successfully created international market access for these communities through e-commerce platforms.
EDUCATION
Masters in Craft and Design, IICD, Jaipur; Bachelors in Commerce, LJ College, Ahmedabad
WORK EXPERIENCE
Design Development
Design and skill development workshops with artisans sponsored by organisation like o/o Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Industree Foundation, AIACA, NIFT, GSHHDC, APHDC, NCDPD, CCI
Skill Development
National Skill Qualification Framework(NSQF) based skill training, assessing and certifying artisans by Sector Skill Councils through Industree Skill Transform in partnership with NSDC
Start up
Cross border retail ecommerce with Discovered, Netherlands and Aniika, USA
Seed funding for rural business ideas with Befund (India)
Relief and Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation artisan communities of Kutch post 2001 earthquake.
Facilitating a pan India Covid(2020) response network to reach out to artisans across India, providing food and relief supplies followed by facilitating stock liquidation through various platforms and networks.
INTEREST AREAS
Project programming, Working for artisan communities, Skill development
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Renewable materials; Livelihood through crafts practises; Plant fibers and contemporary materials.
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
Unblock; Making against Constraints; Sensitising student in skills and materials for sustainable creative manufacturing; Crafts and Communities
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
Design workshops involving various crafts with artisan communities across India.
