Routes to Design History: Episode 3 - Sarita Sundar

DHS Podcasts

16 June, 2025

In the next episode of our new podcast series: Routes to Design History, we speak with Sarita Sundar, a designer and design historian who combines her 30+ years of working with brand strategy and design solutions with her academic training in museum studies and heritage interpretation. Research informs the way Sarita works, often taking a critical look at how our culture engages with the visual. She is the founder of Hanno, a consultancy that visualizes and curates diverse narratives with a particular focus on museum, heritage and social communication. She is the author of From Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India, a path-breaking and award-winning book that chronicles how seats have evolved in India. She received a 2022 Fulbright Fellowship to study the intersectional design histories between the United States and India. Her present research studies the Planters chair along with Dr Rachel Lee through a grant from TU Delft.

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Developed by our Teaching and Learning Officer Deepika Srivastava, our Student Officer Alex Todd, and our 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.