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Prof. Dr Poornima Nair is a Senior Faculty in Product Design Department of MITID. She has been with the institute as Professor Product Design since June 2026.
She is an experienced teacher, taught courses are for UG: Foundation(basic design), History of Design, Studies in Form, Introduction to product Design, biomimicry, product semantics, Physical ergonomics, packaging design; UG AND PG: research writing, Design Thinking, creativity; in various Design Schools Including IDC.
Experience
She has experience as a Designer working in rural education for children belonging to economically lower strata of the society; by designing tools to aid learning. She has travelled to several areas especially slums in Maharashtra to conduct workshops in Mathematics education for primary school children developing tools to aid mathematics education
She has the experience in conducting workshop on Natural Dyeing and treatment of Bamboo for Bamboo craft persons. She has developed a Natural Dyeing Manual for Bamboo while at IITBombay and a recourse person and contributor to several manuals during the tenure at IITBombay. 2024 patent pending for gamified packaging design; 2023 design registration for for a sustainable furniture; Special mention 2010: MADE in India design competition
Professional Experience-Product Design
She has completed consultancy work for designing the interior of a low level tractor, packaging for educational toys, gamifying packaging and lighting design using bamboo. Designed and Developed “lap Loom “ for weaving bamboo strips, jigs for bamboo product, Dyeing tank for full bamboo treatment. Experimented on Pyrography.