Karthikeya Acharya, Doctor of Arts
Architect, Design and User Experience Researcher
kach@delectro.net, karthikeya.acharya@gmail.com
Ph number: +610436966582
40/1A, Turner Street, Redfern, 2016, NSW, Australia
CURRENT POSITION
Design and Research Practice @Delectro.net
RECENT POSITIONS
Assistant Professor and Lab Lead at BTECH, Aarhus University, Denmark (Till October 2023)
• Co-founder, program builder and designer of PROTO* lab
• Course designer and lecturer for Industrial Design in Business Development Engineering
• Course lecturer and supervisor in Technology based Business Development program
EDUCATION
• Doctorate in Design Research, Department of Design, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland 2016
• Masters in Interaction Design, Domus Academy + Interactive Design Institute, Milan, Italy 2006
• Bachelors in Architecture, Manipal University, Faculty of Architecture, India 2003
• Aarhus University Pedagogical Programme for Research and Teaching faculty 2022
WORK EXPERIENCE IN DESIGN RESEARCH, PRACTICE AND GRANT WRITING
• Project Lead: Initiation, conception, design and fund raising for Midtvest Maker Fest 2022
• Practice based Research with ‘Maker Event as a Regional Study’ of four municipalities in Midtvest Denmark
• Industrial Funding awardee for Sustainable IoT project with focus on EU Ecodesign Directive
• Project manager in the MANUFACTORY project
• Partner member for IoT Crawler, EU H2020 project on Next Gen Internet
• Lead writer of proposal for designing multi stakeholder urban scale repair services in Nordic contexts
• Project curator, experience designer and maker of Aarhus University BTECH space for the IoTWeek 2019
• Service Design Researcher with the Socio-Tech Design Group at Aarhus University 2017-2019
• Project Researcher with Embodied Design Group at Aalto University 2016-2017
• Visiting Researcher and Consultant at Fortum, the Finnish State Energy Utility 2015-2016
• Field based Design Practice as Energy and Housing Studies (Doctoral Research) 2010-2015
• Design Consultant with Nokia Design and Nokia Research Center, Bangalore, India 2007-2009
• User Researcher with CKS Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India 2004-2005
• Residential and Commercial Architect 2003-2004
MEMBER OF THE PROGRAM COMMITTEES, JURIES AND SCIENTIFIC REVIEWS
• Co-Chair for Designing Interactive Systems conference, Provocations and Work in Progress track, 2018, IndiaHCI, Student Research Consortium, 2018 and 2019
• Associate Chair for Creativity and Cognition Conference 2022 and 2023, Designing Interactive Systems, Pictorial track, 2017
• Reviewer for the Energy and Environment Journal, ACM CSCW Conference, Art of Research Conference, Designing Interactive Systems Conference
• Jury member for the Trans-cultural Master Degree Program at L’Ecole de Design, Nantes, France, 2013
• Jury member at the Magdelena Festival, Maribor, Slovenia, 2009