Sanjana Shivakumar

Sanjana Shivakumar is an architect and design researcher, currently pursuing a Master of Design at Concordia University, Montreal. She completed her bachelors degree in architecture from Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India. Sanjana has two years of experience working on various socially-inclined out-reach projects. This has helped her focus her research interests towards Healthcare and pandemic-specific concepts for public space design. During the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, she has helped design and develop mobile applications and emergency essential kits for migrant populations in India. Sanjana’s research creation project is framed within the broad domain of design studies, to enable communities through spatial perceptions and interaction design. Her research aims to identify inherent complexities in the intersection of people, space and virtual environments – how we live, work, and make accommodations every day. By exploring participatory design as a way to bridge the gap between user expectations and realities, she would like to redesign dining and working spaces for improved interactions for pandemic and post-pandemic times.