Biography
Shashi Caan was educated at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, BFA(Hons), and later atProfessional practice
Shashi Caan is the founding partner of ''THE COLLECTIVE US/THE SC COLLECTIVE UK'' which provides architecture, interior, workplace, and product design solutions focusing on supporting people both pragmatically and qualitatively. In 2013, Shashi Caan also founded GloW-DESIGN (Globally We Design), a platform whose purpose is to generate and disseminate new design thinking, practice and processes to tackle the ever more pressing and contemporary problems facing humanity at large. GloW-DESIGN is composed by five different programs: *Next-GenNarrative (NGN) creative leadership Think-Tank; *ReDesignEd Educators Forum; *World Youth Designer Program: include the World Youth Designer and World Youth Designer Forum (WYD + WYDF); *CoDesign from concept to reality – Design projects co-designed collaboratively in live time across the world; *GloW-Design expo – addressing design and market. In 2018, The GloW-DESIGN Educators Forum 2018 formulated the Universal Design Educators Charter as part of the ReDesignEd program. The Charter was created to provide a framework and filter through which design education and curricula are assessed, valued, and contextualized globally and collectively. The Charter is a collection of seven articles, six of them affirming a common global aspiration of achievement for all designers, and the last one a disclaimer. The essays address the areas of: *Culture change, *Knowledge and skills (education), *Sustainability, *Technology, *Acknowledgement (certification) and *Responsibility. The Universal Educational Charter recognizes that design impacts all aspects of life, therefore, it has to serve the endeavor for the betterment of human experience, quality of life, well-being, and happiness. The Universal Educational Charter recognizes that design impacts all aspects of life; therefore, it has to serve the endeavor for the betterment of human experience, quality of life, well-being, and happiness. Since the 1980s, Shashi Caan has held numerous teaching engagements at such institutions as Parson the New School for Design, in New York. From 2002-2007, Professor Caan was the Chair of the Interiors Program at Parsons and she served as the Faculty Trustee on the Board of Trustees for theEducation
* Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland BFA(Hons); *Career as Designer
*Senior Designer at Gensler; *Design Director and Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; *Founder and Principal, ''THE COLLECTIVE'' (2002–present); *Chair of Interior Design atRecognition
*2013 JDP Design Ambassador to Japan; *2012 Golden Seat Architectural Master Award of China; *2006 International Facility Member Association (IFMA) Educator of the Year; *2004 U.S. Designer of the Year Contract Magazine, (Contract Magazine, January 2004);Fellowships
*Fellow of IFI, 2014; *Fellow the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 2014 *Honorary Fellow American Society of Interior Designers, 2015; *Honorary Fellow British Institute of Interior Design, 2014; *Honorary Fellow Design Institute of Australia, 2013; *Fellow Consejo Iberoamericano de Diseñadores de Interiores, 2013;Independent Research and Exhibitions
*Spatial Color **Live Lab Experiment and Installation: Bridging the Art and Science of Color, Architectural Digest Home Show, New York, NY. Televised on the Today Show, March 2006 *Curator, "Fifty Shades of Green" 2000 **Sustainable Materials & Product Exhibit, Archeworks, Chicago, IL *Curator, "Virtual Color" 1997 **3D Color Exhibit, New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY. Televised on Channel 4 News, 1997 *Co-Curator, "Glamorous Green" 1997 **Environmental Product and Materials, AIA Interiors Committee & Material ConneXions, New York, NY *Co-Curator, "Surfaces" 1996 **Innovation in Architectural Materials, AIA Interiors Committee, NY, NY *Research Grant (Graduate Architecture Research) 1991 **Pittsburgh Corning Glass Corporation: Light/Color in ArchitectureJuries and lectures
Shashi Caan has delivered dozens of keynotes and public lectures, along with serving on many of international design juries. Most recent juries include: *The Rigg Design Prize Jury, Melbourne, Australia (2018) *INDE Awards Asia Jury, Singapore (2018) *DFA Awards, Hong Kong Jury 2018.Author / Publications
''Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Being in the Built Environment'', Laurence King Publishing 2011 Over the last decade she has written some thirty articles, essays and critiques, published both in the US and internationally.References
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