Suresh Sethi

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Suresh Sethi

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Research Interests

Industrial Design

Education

Ph.D. Industrial Design, IIT - Bombay, Mumbai, India

Master in Design, Domus Academy, Milan, Italy

Master in Design M.Des. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

Professional Information

Suresh Sethi is Chair of Industrial Design, School of Art & Design since 2020. A Professor and James Avery Endowed Chair in Industrial Design, Sethi holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Design from IITB, a Master of Lighting Design from Domus Academy, Milan Italy, and a Bachelor’s in Industrial Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. Sethi joined the Illinois faculty in 2017. Sethi is a powerhouse of global experience – he has worked in America, China, Holland, Italy, India, and Singapore. Sethi was in the leadership role in a corporate environment – as Vice President, Design, Whirlpool Corporation Asia. He has been a founding Professor of the School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore.

Sethi’s designs emerge from the user’s identity and lifestyle. For him, design is about building relationships between – product and user, product and profits, product and production. He expands beyond the physical limits of materiality to an emotional level. His research on life under artificial light as multisensory interaction includes culture, emotion, and sensation together is published as a book “Light Shines, Light Reflects.” His current research focuses on the role of narratives in product form visualization.

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  • 4 Conference contribution

  • Narrative—A Vehicle to Generate Product Form

    Sethi, S., 2021, Design for Tomorrow - Proceedings of ICoRD 2021. Chakrabarti, A., Poovaiah, R., Bokil, P. & Kant, V. (eds.). Springer, p. 147-159 13 p. (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; vol. 223).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Exploring a New Future in Collaborative Design Processes in Education

    Thomas, J., Windham, J., Sethi, S. & Arora, M., 2020, Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, 2019. Shin, C. S. (ed.). Springer, p. 173-184 12 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 968).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Personal Experience in Concept Generation of New Products

    Sethi, S. & Sethi, S., 2020, Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Human Factors in Communication of Design. Markopoulos, E., Goonetilleke, R. S., Ho, A. G. & Luximon, Y. (eds.). Springer, p. 169-174 6 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 1218 AISC).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Role of Narratives in Visualizing Product Form

    Sethi, S., 2020, Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design. Fukuda, S. (ed.). Springer, p. 289-299 11 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 952).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution