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Neha Sayed
Person profile
Neha is a doctoral candidate in the Media Department. She started her tenure as a doctoral student in January 2016. Part of 'Systems of Representations Reseach Group', she is advised and supervised by Professor Lily Diaz-Kommonen. Her research is focused on assessing impact of sensor driven technologies on the hertiage urban precincts. As part of her doctoral research she extensively studied a very specific three hundred year old port town in India by adopting a multidisciplinary approach. Her work produces a well defined tool-kit which can be used for analysing any specific architectural 'place'. The tool-kit comprises of sustained ethnographic work, extensively analysed in GIS and visualised in georeferenced photogrammetry model.
Person profile
Neha is a doctoral candidate in the Media Department. She started her tenure as a doctoral student in January 2016. Part of 'Systems of Representations Reseach Group', she is advised and supervised by Professor Lily Diaz-Kommonen. Her research is focused on assessing impact of sensor driven technologies on the hertiage urban precincts. As part of her doctoral research she extensively studied a very specific three hundred year old port town in India by adopting a multidisciplinary approach. Her work produces a well defined tool-kit which can be used for analysing any specific architectural 'place'. The tool-kit comprises of sustained ethnographic work, extensively analysed in GIS and visualised in georeferenced photogrammetry model.
Background
Basically an architect from Mumbai, India, Neha has done a combination of architectural practice, teaching and research in last eighteen years. She did her masters in Expereince Design from Konstfack University College of art and design, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2011 to 2018 she was teaching in an architecture school, where she could experiement with design methodologies in academics. She also got an opportunity to design a street furniture manual for the only pedestrian hill station in Asia through the Design Cell of the school.
Her architectural practice was in partnership with her brother Salil Sayed. It was mostly based in interior architecture or private homes. She designed several clinics and hospitals where the furniture performed a very important interface in care taking. It was at this point that she developed a keen interest in Interaction Design.
Coming from an extreemly diverse cultural background which challenged her design thinking, she realised the unavoidable importance of culture specific design. This led to adopt design methodologies which were increasingly relied on ethnography. She started several small research projects of her own where she could understand the impact of culture on design processes. Her current research for the doctoral programme is the culmination of all that she has learnt so far, where she is analysing how a very culture specific community adopts sensor driven technologies.
Background
Basically an architect from Mumbai, India, Neha has done a combination of architectural practice, teaching and research in last eighteen years. She did her masters in Expereince Design from Konstfack University College of art and design, Stockholm, Sweden. From 2011 to 2018 she was teaching in an architecture school, where she could experiement with design methodologies in academics. She also got an opportunity to design a street furniture manual for the only pedestrian hill station in Asia through the Design Cell of the school.
Her architectural practice was in partnership with her brother Salil Sayed. It was mostly based in interior architecture or private homes. She designed several clinics and hospitals where the furniture performed a very important interface in care taking. It was at this point that she developed a keen interest in Interaction Design.
Coming from an extreemly diverse cultural background which challenged her design thinking, she realised the unavoidable importance of culture specific design. This led to adopt design methodologies which were increasingly relied on ethnography. She started several small research projects of her own where she could understand the impact of culture on design processes. Her current research for the doctoral programme is the culmination of all that she has learnt so far, where she is analysing how a very culture specific community adopts sensor driven technologies.