FACULTY
Prof. Swayamsiddha Panigrahi is an Assistant Professor of Design at the School of Design, Art and Performance at FLAME University. Currently, she is also pursuing a collaborative doctoral programme offered by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Nanyang Technological University Singapore. She holds a Master's degree in Visual Communication from IIT Kanpur. Additionally, she has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the Odisha University of Technology and Research.
Visual art and Animation are among her research specialities, focusing on cross-cultural visual adaptability. She has conducted research in various capacities with design practitioners and artist communities throughout multiple Indian states and other participants from countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia for about ten years. She has been an academic instructor and mentor at the MIT-World Peace University, IIT BHU, Karnawati University and other institutions. Prior to her full-time research endeavour, she held positions as a User-Experience designer, Graphic designer, and Architect on multi-faceted industry projects.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Society for Animation Studies annual conference 2022, The Story Weaver's perspective, Teesside University, United Kingdom.
Confia conference 2021: 9th International Conference on Illustration and Animation., Visual adaptation of Odisha Patachitra in the animation film Arjuna, the Archer., Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, ISBN: 978-989-54939-6-8
ICoRD 21' conference, 2021, Design for Tomorrow., Anecdotes to Animation: Role of oral history in visual adaptation study, Design for Tomorrow—Volume 2, 535-546
Confia conference, 2020: 8th International Conference on Illustration and Animation., Mediation of mediums: Case studies of traditional Indian miniature painting informed animations., Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, ISBN: 978-989-54939-0-6
Confia conference, 2018: 6th International Conference on Illustration and Animation., Transculturation in Indian Folk Art and Visual Culture., Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, ISBN: 978-989-99861-6-9
- The 27thAustralian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne 2015, ozCHI 24hrs design challenge,2015., Design to prevent isolation felt by school children with speech problems.
AWARDS
- "Ranjan Kumar Memorial Award" for the best socially relevant project by any graduating student(s) of any department, IIT KANPUR, The 49th Convocation,2016.