SESSION 1: ALTERING THE SCRIPT: CULTURAL METAMORPHOSIS
Venue : Stein Auditorium

Moderator: Radha Chadha

Yuniya Kawamura

The Status Elevation of Japanese Sashiko from Poverty to Luxury

Maurizio Francesconi

The Revamping of Craftsmanship

Suruchi Banerjee Dhasmana

Heirloom

Rahul Sethi & Sabyasachi Sengupta

Cultural Transformations: Crafts, Design and Fashion in 20th Century Bengal

SESSION 2: SYNERGIES IN DESIGN
Venue : Silver Oak

Moderator: Laila Tyabji

Wendy Yothers

Empathy as a Catalyst for Design

Julia Raath, Rakhi Pratap & Karthikeyan Balaraman

Cross Culture Collaboration in Design

Jeevan Xavier

Dynamics of Craft-Fashion dependency

Marilyn Thomas

Flexible Fashion Movement

SESSION 3: PEDAGOGY OF CRAFT-FASHION LINKAGES
Venue : Gulmohar

Moderator: Anchal Jain

Priti Srivastava

Sustainability in Young Design Minds – Project Based Learning

Deepti Baveja

Sustainable Measures for Craft Revival Through Educational Reforms

Toolika Gupta

Clove Model – Proposed Methodological Model for Research in Craft and Fashion History

Goutam Saha, Shinju Mahajan, Lipsa Mohapatra & Satya S. Banerjee

NIFT Cluster Initiatives for Indian Handloom and Handicraft Sector: Revitalizing Craft-fashion linkages

Maarit Salolainen, Anna-Mari Leppisaari & Kirsi Niinimaki

Transforming Fashion Pedagogy through Textile Thinking

SESSION 4: SUSTAINABILITY: THE WAY FORWARD
Venue : Stein Auditorium

Moderator: Kate Fletcher

Lynn Boorady & Nicholas Hall

Rediscovering Slow Fashion: The use of Traditional Crafts to Encourage Sustainable Practices

Banhi Jha

Khadi Denim: Synergizing Sustainability and Innovation with Natural Indigo Dye

Kripal Mathur

Design And Sustainability: Its Challenges and Significance

Sonal Chauhan

Encouraging Slow Consumption through Emotionally Durable Design

SESSION 5: CRAFTING IDENTITIES
Venue : Silver Oak

Moderator: Sharmila J Dua

Dimple Bahl

Ancient Indian Grid Systems - Our Cultural Heritage

Preetha Hussain

Crafting an Indian Identity through Design

Jyotsna Raghunathan

Tales told by Threads

Iti Seth

Maker Culture of the Traditional Indian Family

SESSION 6: INNOVATING DIGITAL RETAIL
Venue : Gulmohar

Moderator: Narendra Kumar

Meera Goradia

Digital Retail for Rural Producers

Harsha Rani, Goutam Saha, & Binaya Bhusan Jena

A Critical Analysis on Digital Retail for Rural Producers

Nilima Regina Topno, Anand Vikram, Shatarupa Thakurta Roy, Satyendra Kumar Mishra & Vinayak Yashraj

Developing a Digital Portal for Craft Products

Rachna Imam

Exploring the Success of E-Commerce of Handloom and Handicraft in India

SESSION 7: TECHNOVATION
Venue : Jacaranda 1

Moderator: Prabir Jana

Amit Gupta & Noopur Anand

Prototype Development of Affordable Protective Suit for Sewage Divers (Manual Scavengers)

Kunal Singha

Clever strategies: Salt free cotton dyeing by acidic (Nucleophilic dyeing) and alkaline (Electrophilic dyeing) method by using reactive dye

Senthil Kumar Venkatalu & Pranjali Kataria

Sustainable Fashion Drapes for UV Protection

Richa Sharma & Nilanjana Bairagi

Rethinking the Night: Transforming Fashion through Creative Textiles

SESSION 8: EMERGING NARRATIVES OF CHANGE
Venue : Jacaranda 2

Moderator: Ritu Sethi

Sharmila Dua

Transforming Craft as Industry

Pooja Pawar & Reena Bhatia

Revitalizing the Traditional Tribal Cloth of Chhota Udepur Gujarat, India

Satyendra Mishra, Vinayak Yashraj, Nilima Regina Topno & Sneha Bhatnagar

The Interface of Technology, Culture and Design

Paramita Sarkar and Nilanjana Bairagi

Cultural Transformation: Transformation in Costume of Tribal Women of Tripuri Tribe of India

Resmi G.

Changing Face of Indian Handloom

SESSION 9: GLOBAL BUSINESS MODELS
Venue : Silver Oak

Moderator: Devangshu Dutta

Clare McTurk

Experience is all: A Case Study of British Made Jeans

Osmud Rahman, Devender Kharb & Zhimin Chen

A Cross-National Comparative Study of Apparel Consumers: India and China

Lipi Choudhury

Strategic Interventions for Craft Sustainability in the New Age Economy- Recalibrating the Socio-Economic Equilibrium

Sulagna Saha

PATAGONIA - A Sustainable Business Model

SESSION 10: TRADITION AND CONTEMPORANEITY IN FASHION
Venue : Gulmohar

Moderator: David Abraham

Shalini Sud & Sibichan K. Mathews

Changing Constructs of Trend Motivation By Women Through The Lens Of Indian Wear

Surbhi Ahuja

Handloom Sarees - Unifying India through Design & Defining the New Urban Chic

Ruhee Das Chowdhury

Modi Kurtas - Aligning with the People's Leader

Jasbir Kaur

Indian Fashion: The Modernization of India and its impact on fashion 1985-2010

Malu Prates

Corsets and Pain

SESSION 11: SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES
Venue : Jacaranda 1

Moderator: Jatin Bhatt

Vandana Bhandari

Impact of Fair Trade on Lives of Women Artisans

Rajani Jain

Perceptions of Ethics among Garment Manufacturing Industry Professionals

Saumya Pande & Indrajit De

Crafting the Indian Fashionscape: The Age of the Enabler

Sunita Gupta Konwar & Simarjiv Singh Anand

An Empirical Study to Evaluate the Feasibility of Introducing Biological Leather Technology in the Indian Market

SESSION 12: CO-CREATION
Venue : Jacaranda 2

Moderator: Jaya Jaitly

Deborah Emmett

Traditional Handcrafted Textile Communities Surviving in Contemporary India: A Comparison between the Luxury Pashmina Shawl Industry and other Textile Crafts in the Kashmir Valley

Sudha Dhingra

'An Ode to Earth'- Experimentation with Mud Resist Printing and Natural Dyeing

Jaspal Kalra & Vandana Bhandari

Co-Design Strategies : Design Education for Chikankari Craftswomen

Kundlata Mishra, Patricia Sumod

Loosely Woven Gauze to a Beautiful Drape Chiffon: Story of Shifting Cultures of Recycled Style at Sarangpur

Ajit Kumar Khare & Sankara Narayanan T. R.

Design Collaboration - A Move Towards Mutual Benefit

SESSION 13: FASHION EDUCATION
Venue : Silver Oak

Moderator: Sue Prescott

Usha Nehru Patel

Stepping Backwards – A Move Forward

Japjee Kohli & Ashok K. Gaba

Analysis of Curriculum in Fashion Design Programme: Cross-National Comparison of India South Korea, UK, France and Italy

Asit Bhatt

Mahatma Gandhi and the Model of Fashion Education, Activism and System(s) in India

Anita Bora & Ankur Chhabra

Bridging the Gap between Staffing Criteria of the Indian Fashion Industry and Non-Formal Learning of the Underprivileged Students for their Optimal Employability

Raghuram Jayaraman & Ajit Kumar Khare

Audio Manuscripts in Fashion Learning: A Reconnaissance

SESSION 14: FASHION RETAIL
Venue : Gulmohar

Moderator: Harmeet Bajaj

Gaurav Mandal

Impact of Digitalisation on Indian Fashion Designers and Brands

Vasundhara Khattry, Shalini Gupta and Radhika Jain

Evolution of Fashion Retail: Building Multi – Sensory Experiences to Enhance Customer Engagement

Mou Sen

Biswa Bangla Initiative: An Innovative Business Structure to Create Superior Value for Artisans of Bengal

Shakeel Iqbal & K. Anant Phani

Appropriate Apparel Products for E-retailing Business