Routes to Design History: Episode 16 - Tanishka Kachru

5 November, 2026

In the next episode of our podcast series: Routes to Design History, we speak with Tanishka Kachru, a design historian and senior faculty at the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad. Tanishka works with archives, museums, and cultural heritage to decode histories of design and craft from ecological and feminist lenses. She is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Craft and Sustainability in India (2024).

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Developed by our Teaching and Learning Officer Deepika Srivastava, our Teaching and Learning Officer Alex J Todd, and former Ambassadors Dan Mu and Pippy Stephenson, the Routes to Design History podcast series explores diverse ways of practising the field. Join us as we uncover the many routes to shaping a career in design history.