Jui Tawade

Designation: Assistant Professor (visiting)

Experience: 16 years

About

• Architect, Industrial Designer and Fibre Artist, practicing for the last 24 years with a primary focus on working with Heritage, Crafts, Furniture design and restoration and working with fibre (yarn) as a medium for art.
• Co Convener INTACH Pune Chapter
• Designed and Conducting Heritage Walks and Workshops for spreading Heritage awareness for the past 20 years at an individual capacity and through the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.
• Part of Team Warsaa – an INTACH Pune Chapter initiative – to create awareness and promote Traditional Maharashtrian Crafts.
• Mentor students through INTACH on Architectural and Craft documentation- National institutes like Sushant SOA Delhi, MSR SOA Bangalore, BMS SOA Bangalore, AIKTC SOA Mumbai and International institutes like Norwegian University of Technology and Asia- Europe Foundation Summer University.
• Documenter, Writer, Ground Facilitator, for the Dastkari Haat Samiti’s Crafts documentation initiative for the Google Arts and Culture project.
• Working with Dastkari Haat Samiti’s Craft  events in Pune, collaborating with workshops, walks for students and designers and such.
• Designed, introduced to the Syllabus and Conducting a course on Traditional Indian Crafts Application and have conducted the same for the Interior Design at the Brick School of Interior Design and for the Elective Course at M.K.S.S.S’s Dr. B. N. College of Architecture.
• Teach an Introduction to Photography course at M.K.S.S.S’s Dr. B. N. College of Architecture.
• Practicing fibre art through contemporary techniques of embroidery and crochet and installation art for the same.
• Part of the core pattern testing team for Icelandic Modern Crochet designer Tinna Thórudóttir Thorvaldsdóttir.