Srivi Kalyan is an artist, designer, educator, writer and research scholar. She works at the fluid and exciting intersection of arts, media, education, design, environment and self-reflection. She has a Masters in Arts in Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge and a Masters in Fine Arts from Stella Maris College, Chennai. Srivi has authored and illustrated several books for children and adults and is an award winning writer and illustrator. She has worked for some of the leading educational/edutainment organizations like Sesame Street, NCERT, idiscoveri, Katha, Tulika, Birla Edutech, Macmillan, Young Zubaan, Ilango’s Art space designing cutting edge books and media for children and young people on one end, and workshops, curriculum, teacher training modules, interdisciplinary design and delivery of curriculums on the other. She is the Founder-Director of Fooniferse Arts Pvt. Ltd. Her personal work can be viewed at www.sriviliveshere.com, www.fooniferse.com.
She currently works at Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology, where she encourages students to discover the heart of their own creativity. She is one of the course leaders for M.Des (Masters of Design) and B.Des. Information Arts and Information Design Practices and heads the M.Des for Earth Education and Communication. She is in the fourth year of her PhD and her research focuses on Indian philosophical traditions, aesthetics and personal art practice to uncover intrinsic ecological consciousness. Blending expertise in research and practice across multiple disciplines, Srivi brings transdisciplinary approaches and insights to her work.
Areas of Interest: Arts Education; Visual Design; Illustration; Earth Education; Conservation, Communication; Art History; Creative Writing; Indian art, aesthetics and philosophy, Ecological Consciousness, Eco-ethics, Eco -philosophy and Eco-aesthetics.