 | This biographical article is written like a résumé .(November 2018) |
Shashi Caan a design futurist, educator and author, her dedication to furthering human betterment through and by design is reflected in her 25-year design career.
| This biographical article is written like a résumé .(November 2018) |
Shashi Caan a design futurist, educator and author, her dedication to furthering human betterment through and by design is reflected in her 25-year design career.
Shashi Caan is of Indian origin and was educated at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, BFA(Hons), and later at Pratt Institute, New York City, two master’s degrees, the first in Industrial Design and the second in Architecture. [1]
Shashi Caan is the founding partner of THE COLLECTIVE US/THE SC COLLECTIVE UK which provides architecture, interior, workplace, and product design solutions focusing on supporting people both pragmatically and qualitatively. [2] In 2013, Shashi Caan also founded GloW-DESIGN (Globally We Design), a platform whose purpose is to generate and disseminate new design thinking, practice and processes to tackle the ever more pressing and contemporary problems facing humanity at large. GloW-DESIGN is composed by five different programs:
In 2018, The GloW-DESIGN Educators Forum 2018 formulated the Universal Design Educators Charter as part of the ReDesignEd program. The Charter was created to provide a framework and filter through which design education and curricula are assessed, valued, and contextualized globally and collectively. The Charter is a collection of seven articles, six of them affirming a common global aspiration of achievement for all designers, and the last one a disclaimer. The essays address the areas of:
The Universal Educational Charter recognizes that design impacts all aspects of life, therefore, it has to serve the endeavor for the betterment of human experience, quality of life, well-being, and happiness.
The Universal Educational Charter recognizes that design impacts all aspects of life; therefore, it has to serve the endeavor for the betterment of human experience, quality of life, well-being, and happiness.
Since the 1980s, Shashi Caan has held numerous teaching engagements at such institutions as Parson the New School for Design, in New York. From 2002-2007, Professor Caan was the Chair of the Interiors Program at Parsons [3] and she served as the Faculty Trustee on the Board of Trustees for the New York School of Interior Design.
Caan is the current CEO of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI), [4] for which she was President from 2009 to 2014. [5]
During her presidency, in 2011, she conceived and helped to inaugurate the IFI Interiors Declaration . This Declaration, initiated with input from 88 world counties. The Interiors Declaration has been adopted at city government level by some 124 world cities and two nations: the Philippines and Nigeria. [6] [ circular reference ]
She is the author of the book Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment, (Laurence King publisher, 2011) which has also been translated into Chinese. [7]
Formerly she was Senior Designer and Associate with Gensler and then Design Director and Associate Partner with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill .
Shashi Caan has delivered dozens of keynotes and public lectures, along with serving on many of international design juries. Most recent juries include:
Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Being in the Built Environment, Laurence King Publishing 2011 Over the last decade she has written some thirty articles, essays and critiques, published both in the US and internationally.
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art academies in protest of limited creative autonomy, Parsons is one of the oldest schools of art and design in New York.
Lowery Stokes Sims is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art. She is known for her expertise in the work of African, African American, Latinx, Native and Asian American artists such as Wifredo Lam, Fritz Scholder, Romare Bearden, Joyce J. Scott and others. She served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has frequently served as a guest curator, lectured internationally and published extensively, and has received many public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution.
The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) is an arts and architecture college of the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was initially established as the School of Applied Art in 1926.
Gensler is a global design and architecture firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is the largest architecture firm in the world by revenue and number of architects.
Jean Shin is an American artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is known for creating elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations using accumulated cast-off materials.
Jeremiah Goodman was an illustrator who signed his work with his first name only. Goodman used his unique painting style to create the essence of a building's interior. His painting interprets the plans of both architects and interior designers. He painted original portraits of spaces for both commercial and private clients. For almost twenty years he created the covers for Interior Design magazine, and also books on interiors and for murals.
The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) represents professional interior architects and interior designers. Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 20, 1963 as a not-for-profit, limited liability company to unite the profession and act as a forum for interior design issues, IFI is an associations' association, serving on the global level a membership of some thirty national organizations, and representing by 2015, 270,000 designers, educators and industrialists in 110 countries.
Jessica Yatrofsky is an American artist, a photographer and a filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York.
Erik Adigard des Gautries, is a Congolese-born French and American communication designer, multimedia artist, and educator. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a co-founder of M-A-D, a Berkeley-based design firm. Adigard is a former design contributor and art director to Wired magazine.
Peggy Cyphers is an American painter, printmaker, professor and art writer.
Alison Mears is a certified AIA LEED AP Architect and is the current head of the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons The New School for Design. Mears was previously the director of the BFA Architecture and Interior Design Programs in the School of Constructed Environments and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Parsons.
The International Design Awards are a group of awards that recognize, celebrate and promote design visionaries and emerging talent in architecture, interior, product, graphic and fashion design.
Susan Cianciolo is a fashion designer and artist.
New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) is a private college focused exclusively on interior design and located in New York City. The college offers certificate, three undergraduate, and four master's degree programs.
James L. Nuckolls was an American lighting designer, author and educator. Nuckolls was influential in the establishment of the lighting design field in higher education. He authored the 1976 book Interior Lighting for Environmental Designers, which is considered to be the first textbook in the field of architectural lighting design.
Andy Cohen is an American architect and global co-chair of Gensler co-CEO of Gensler, the world's largest architecture and design firm by revenue. He served as co-CEO of the global company with Diane Hoskins from 2005 through the end of 2023. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a registered architect in 41 states, and member of the International Interior Design Association. He is also on the Gensler board of directors.
Ana Miljački is a historian, theorist, educator and curator of architecture. She is an associate professor of architecture at MIT where she directs the Critical Broadcasting Lab, the Architecture and Urbanism Group and the Master of Architecture Program.
Tobias Guggenheimer is a Swiss-American architect, educator and author.
Elke Solomon was an American artist, curator, educator and community worker. She was known for her interdisciplinary practice that combines painting, drawing, object-making, performance and installation. Solomon exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.
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