Prasad Boradkar

Prasad Boradkar is professor in Industrial Design at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe. He is the Director of InnovationSpace, a transdisciplinary laboratory at ASU where faculty and students from design, business, sustainability and engineering partner with corporations to develop human-centered product concepts that hold societal benefit and minimize impacts on the environment. He also serves as the Co-Director of the Biomimicry Center at ASU, an organization dedicated to the exploration of biologically-inspired solutions to problems of sustainability. He is the author of Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects (Bloomsbury, 2010) and co-editor of Encountering Things: Design and Theories of Things (Bloomsbury, 2016). Prasad is currently working on a book on Indian design.