Dr. Dhriti Dhaundiyal

Dr. Dhriti Dhaundiyal, Assistant Professor


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  • Education: Education: PhD Industrial Design (IIT Bombay), MSc Urban Sustainability (Kings College, London), BDes (National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad)
  • Email: dhritidhaundiyal@doonuniversity.ac.in
  • Phone: 9557763297
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Design and Sustainability, Mobility Design, Prototyping, Participatory Methods & Co-design. Recent Achievements: Selected as National Design Mentor for Capacity Building Program on Design & Entrepreneurship (CBDE) by Deptt of Higher Education, Govt. of India &IIITDM Kancheepuram Nodal Officer, Doon University • State Program Management Group, National Mission for Clean Ganga • Centre for Public Policy & Good Governance, Govt. of Uttarakhand MoU, Department of Design, IIT Roorkee Patents Patent No. 422767-001, Modified Steamer Design (Patent Office, Government of India) Patent No. 430545-001, Versatile Cooking Pot(Patent Office, Government of India) Recent Achievements: Selected as National Design Mentor for Capacity Building Program on Design & Entrepreneurship (CBDE) by Deptt of Higher Education, Govt. of India &IIITDM Kancheepuram Nodal Officer, Doon University • State Program Management Group, National Mission for Clean Ganga • Centre for Public Policy & Good Governance, Govt. of Uttarakhand MoU, Department of Design, IIT Roorkee Patents Patent No. 422767-001, Modified Steamer Design (Patent Office, Government of India) Patent No. 430545-001, Versatile Cooking Pot(Patent Office, Government of India)
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Best Five publications in last five years:
  1. Dhaundiyal, D., & Sharma, N. (2024). Unheard voices: A critical analysis of data inequities in comprehensive mobility planning of a tier II Indian city. Special Issue on Critical investigations into sustainable mobility transitions: a view from Asian cities. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. Taylor & Francis (Upcoming).
  2. Dhaundiyal, D., & Sharma, N. (2024). Gendered Mobility and Sustainable Urban Transport: Women’s Experiences On Mumbai’s Suburban Railway. Asian Interdisciplinary and Sustainability Review, 13(2), 121–135. https://doi.org/10.14456/aisr.2024.21
  3. Dhaundiyal, D. and Sharma, N. 2024. Probing Permanent, Temporary, and Situational Exclusion in Public Transportation with a Generative Design Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers - Volume 1 (PDC '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA https://doi.org/10.1145/3666094.3666095
  4. Dhaundiyal, D. and Sharma, N. 2024. Missing the bus: A toolkit for amplifying unheard voices of women commuters on public buses in India, in Gray, C., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1321. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1321
  5. Dhaundiyal, D. and Sharma, N., 2023, DIY Bus: Exploring Boundary Objects in Participatory Design Research, “From Abstractness to Concreteness - experiential knowledge and the role of prototypes in design research”, International Conference 2023 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 19-20 June 2023 Conference Proceedings Published 2023 by Politecnico di MIlano ISBN 9788894167436
Ongoing Projects:
  1. Low Cost Learning Aids to Build Cognition & STEM Skills in Early Learners in Rural Uttarakhand (Uttarakhand State Council for Science And Technology)
  2. Gendered Identity and Participation of Women in Community and Crafts of Uttarakhand (Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
  3. Designing for Information, Education & Communication Collaterals for Namami Gange (National Mission for Clean Ganga)
  4. SDG Goalkeeper Field Documentation (UNDP & CPPGG, Department of Planning, Govt. of Uttarakhand)

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