FACULTY
Prof. Amit Kundal
Dr Amit Kundal is Associate Professor and Dean at the School of Design, Art and Performance, FLAME University. He holds a PhD in Human-Centred Design and a Master of Design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a Bachelor’s degree in Design from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Gandhinagar. He has also been part of global design programs such as Stanford University’s ME310 Design Innovation course and Aalto University’s Product Development Project (PdP) in Finland.
An educator, researcher, and design leader, he is passionate about shaping interdisciplinary design education that bridges design, liberal arts, and technology. Before joining FLAME, he served as Associate Dean at ISDI Mumbai, where he led the School of Product and Strategic Innovation.
His professional experience includes design leadership roles at Asmara International and Li & Fung India Pvt. Ltd., and co-founding Studio Twenty-Three, a design and innovation consultancy.
At FLAME, Dr Kundal drives curriculum innovation, faculty development, and global partnerships to cultivate future-ready designers who think critically and reframe the design process around three capacities: context appraisal, situated iteration, and consequence foresight.
Design Patent:
- Kumar, M., Kundal, A., (2023). A Compact Composting Device for Waste Decomposition. German Patent No. 20 2023 103 380. Germany: The President of the German Patent and Trademark Office, Eva Shevior.
- Kumar, M., Kundal, A., (2023). A Portable Infant Phototherapy Device. German Patent No. 20 2023 103 378. Germany: The President of the German Patent and Trademark Office, Eva Shevior.
Publications:
- Kumar, M., Bhushan, B., Sameer, A., Kundal, A. (2023). Laterality in Gesture-Based Video Games. In: Tareq Ahram and Christianne Falcão (eds) Human Factors in Virtual Environments and Game Design. AHFE (2023) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 96. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003863
- Kumar, M., Roy, S., Sameer, A., Kundal, A. (2023). Examining the effects of near and far cues on creativity. In: Evangelos Markopoulos, Ravindra S. Goonetilleke and Yan Luximon (eds) Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. AHFE (2023) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 74. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003317
- Prototyping as a Research Tool | Springer | JANUARY 2021 Role of prototyping in Insight Generation for Product Development in Healthcare.
- Design Education in India | Humanizing Design | OCTOBER 2019. The role of International Collaborations for a globally aspiring mindset. WDO – Research + Education Forum
- Design Thinking to Design Doing | Springer | OCTOBER 2019. A Procedural Approach Creating Socially Responsive Artifacts - A case of designing towards affordable dental care (for India).
- Biogenic Domestic Waste | Springer | JANUARY 2015. Exploring select dimensions of Socio Technical Innovation using Design. Probe
- Biogenic Design Thinking - MEAD | International Ergonomics. Conference HWWE | JANUARY 2015. Exploring biogenic waste through user centered design process and social practice transformation in public systems through Design Thinking and Macro ergonomic approach (DT-MEAD).
- Design of a low-cost Dental chair (Case Study) | Making dental. facilities accessible to Indian masses | NOVEMBER 2014 - AUGUST 2015. This project followed a user-centric approach to provide a low-cost prototype, in accordance with research findings, that aimed at making dental facilities more efficient and accessible to the masses (like in rural India). This project primarily focused on enhancing the most critical piece of the dental system, i.e., the dental chair.
- Rethinking the Health Record Card (Case Study) | Research. Project for ‘Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’ | NOVEMBER 2014 -AUGUST 2015. The scope of this project was to redesign the child health record, so that accuracy increases, records become easier to interpret and use, and health professionals and families alike value them.
- Investing biogenic domestic waste (Case Study) | Study for effective waste in urban residential colonies | NOVEMBER 2014 - AUGUST 2015. The aim of this research project was to explore select dimensions of social innovation through design that communicates and signals for change towards behavioral transformation of citizens/ consumers.