Master of Arts in Special and Inclusive Education, University of Northampton with focus on design, inclusion and pedagogy and Bachelor of Science with honours in Chemistry, from St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta

Sudebi emphasises on socially, environmentally and culturally relevant issues while inter-weaving design thinking, imagination, complex systems thinking, pedagogy, andragogy, crafts, entrepreneurialism, visual and performing arts, oral history, ethnography, and research to co-create inclusive and regenerative possibilities. Sudebi has started a unique pedagogy, art and design led trans-local initiative “The Archival City- a Site of Learning’.

Sudebi has designed and facilitated more than 100 inter and transdisciplinary courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students of art and design, both in-house and for external clients. She often represents SMI at national and international platforms with her practice, pedagogy and teaching-learning experiences with her unique inter-play of media, design, art, regeneration, people, context, place and culture with a pluriversal and equitable lens. As the Head of Program for the PGDP now and earlier as an Associate Academic Dean amme that helps people transition into the world of art and design while as an Associate Programme Dean for the Cluster Design, Business and Technology Sudebi led a one-of-its kind Bachelor of Design programme on Creative Education, where design, learning, futures, regeneration, systems and education all come together. Sudebi also works on creative ways of doing marketing and evaluation design. She mentors many students during their thesis or capstone projects or with unique ways of chronicling their learning journeys and building portfolios. She also facilitates courses on learning using innovative methodologies and practices that can transform learning and foster transformative leadership both in learners and educators, business leaders and grassroots workers. She has worked on many public facing site specific community-led work. She works on under-graduate and postgraduate level foundation programmes that create transition between a non-design/art-based space to a design school. She has curated many projects, performances and exhibitions and worked on projects that transform public spaces using modes like games, storytelling, toolkits, performances etc. Sudebi has also been a researcher at “Project Vision”, a design and research collective within the Centre for Education, Research, Training and Development within Srishti. Through “Project Vision”, a new pedagogy had been conceptualized and implemented in learning centres for children from urban slums across Bangalore, as well as for students at mainstream schools. Sudebi is actively involved in designing and curating context-based, activity-centred learning processes for children and their teachers, educators and leaders integrating design thinking, language, technology, digital media and life-skills and also worked in designing evaluation. She is also involved in the development and implementation of user-centric customized solutions for leaders, educators, middle school children, training methodologies and materials solidly grounded in theories of cognition and latest research in education, learning and evaluation.

Most of Sudebi’s courses are deeply rooted in culture, urban issues, orality, social design, crafts, ways of thinking, seeing and connecting, re-examining history, creative documentation, evaluation, language, interaction and information design, systems and service design, gamification, entrepreneurship, impact design, research, creative education and creative writing, space and place, music, poetry, gender, digital and mixed-media storytelling, critical literary appreciation, folklore, media, socio-political or environmental issues, place-based learning, usage of online digital platforms in learning and assessment and also generation of various tools & methodologies. She has designed more than 20 place-based learning units where the students were taken to a different socio-cultural, geo-political context and learnt from those. She also has a deep interest in studio-based, project-based, inquiry-driven learning design using problem as a pedagogical opportunity. She also enjoys curating and designing exhibitions and publications beyond traditional forms and modes. She has very deep experiential insights about foundational aspects of art and design education with experience of designing and facilitating Foundation level units around all aspects: units on contextual enquiries on Space and Place, Communities and Practices, Form and Structure, Order and Chaos, Body and Context and Play and Invent, units on generic skills such as socio-cultural thinking tools, visual thinking tools, design and systems thinking tools etc.

Sudebi is the co-founder of D.epicentre which is a collective of narrative designers, sharing a common vision about shifts in patterns of thinking, ways of seeing oneself and the world, connecting the dots and looking at the bigger picture, while not overlooking the small. The collective believes in delving into a process of inquiry in experiential, immersive, embodied, dialogic, contextual, participatory ways to co-create, collaborate and curate regenerative, transformative and emergent possibilities. They work on various impact projects locally and globally. Elements of Storytelling, Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight, Design, Complex Systems Thinking and pedagogical explorations are interwoven into multiple media, modes and materials while crafting experiences at D.epicentre. As the creative director of D.epicentre Sudebi has worked in more than 30 countries on more than 60 projects, locally and globally.