invited talks + presentations

Takbir Fatima, Director, DesignAware at Hyderabad Design Week Conference 2019. Photo credit Rishitha Devi (3).JPG

+Technology, Design, Awareness // DATUM: Tech, Augmentic 2025, Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival

+How to be an Architect? Let me count the ways // SABE20, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University College Sedaya International (UCSI), Kuala Lumpur

+Computational Design and Digital Fabrication in Architecture // International Symposium, School of Planning & Architecture, Vijayawada 2025

+How to be an Architect? Let me count the ways // Marg Institute of Design & Architecture Swarnabhoomi (MIDAS), Chennai 2025

+How to be an Architect? Let me count the ways // CSIIT School of Architecture & Planning, Secunderabad 2025

+Keynote Lecture // Aspire 2025, Dayananda Sagar College of Architecture, Bengaluru

+Technology, Design, Awareness // Young Architects Festival 2025, Indian Institute of Architects (Kottayam Center)

+Emergent Technologies and Urban Resilience // BACtalks 2025, Boston Architectural College

+Design through Awareness: Tools, Systems, Processes // Unitedworld Institute of Design, Karnavati University, Ahmedabad 2024

+100 Women: Architects in Practice Middle East Book Launch // RIBA Gulf X Art Jameel, Dubai , 2024

+Architecture and Al Partnering Together to design a Better Tomorrow // Prime Talk, D-arc BUILD Bengaluru 2024

+Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai 2024

+Artificial Intelligence in Action: Redefining Architecture Practice (panel discussion) // ArchitectureLive! X IIA Nashik 2024

+IP Unleash: Rethinking IP in Modern Contexts with the Women of Today (panel discussion) // Symbiosis International University Law School, Hyderabad // CIPRA, Syminaret 2024

+Samunnati Student Biennale // Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi //India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale 2023

+Living Room Conversations (panel discussion) // “Samatva: Shaping the Built” // India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale 2023, Red Fort, New Delhi

+Connecting the Dots lecture series // T-Works, Hyderabad 2023

+Keynote: In Search of a Prompt: Analog to Digital in Conceptual Design // Apple Dubai 2023

+Building the Future: Architecture and AI // SPACE10 + UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023

+Learning Computation from Nature: Fractal Patterns in Architecture // Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology (SCET), Surat 2023

+Future of Architecture (panel discussion) // TASA (The Alternative School of Architecture) / Manipal University Jaipur 2023

+New Technology Techniques (panel discussion) // Boston Architectural College 2023

+Keynote lecture: IIA Malappuram subcenter launch event 2022

+Many Minds, Many Hands: Collaborative authorship from ideation to fabrication // Design Talk 2022, ArchiNetPoster

+Glass Academy Webinars 2022

+”Architecture and Computational Design aligned with Industry 5.0 and beyond” // ICEIL 2022

+“i5 Series” talks // Institute of Indian Interior Designers (IIID) Hyderabad Chapter 2021

+“The Future of Design Visualization” Panel Discussion // ADM Summit, AnimationXpress X IndiaTelevision 2021

+Fractals 30.0: Analog_Algorithms Workshop Exhibition (India/ Bangladesh/ Asia) // InclusiveFUTURES // DigitalFUTURES, Tongji University, Shanghai 2021

+Collective Authorship and Virtual Storytelling through Analog and Digital Computation // BAC Talks // The Boston Architectural College, Boston 2021

+Digital Technology for Future Cities // Technology for Architecture Futures Webinar // Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists + VSPARC, VIT University, Vellore 2021

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+Young Disruptors Series // Inspire India YouthCon 2021

+Process over Product: Investigative and Generative Design Methods // MIDAS Webinar 22 // Marg Institute of Design and Architecture Swarnabhoomi, Chennai 2021

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+Equality and Diversity // IKEA India, Hyderabad 2021

+No End in Sight: Design Adventures in Embracing Uncertainty // Global Connect_Engage_Exchange // Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture, Pune 2021

+No End in Sight: Design Adventures in Embracing Uncertainty // Webinar Series Season 2 // Hampi Center for Design, Hampi 2021

+No End in Sight: Design Adventures in Embracing Uncertainty // D6 Arch Open Series // Heriot-Watt University, Dubai 2020

+Virtual Walkthrough of Hilltop School // Dezeen Virtual Design Festival 2020

+Humanizing Design + Collective Intelligence: Many Minds, Many Hands // Hyderabad Design Week 2019/ World Design Assembly

+Design-Construction Feedback Loop: An Experiential School Born of Adaptive Design Processes // Alserkal Avenue 2019

+Open-source: Various Ignition Points for Design // Digitalks 2019

+Hilltop School // Dar al-Hekma University, Jeddah 2019

+DesignAwareness // Maker Space, Dubai Design Week 2018

+My Serendipitous Journeys in Design // TEDxBITSHyderabad 2017

+Crowdsourced // The New Narrative, India Design Summit 2017

+Lateral Thinking in the Design Process // Arch 104 The Talk Series, DSPA 2016

+AA Visiting School Alumni Lecture Series with Poonam Sardesai 2015

+Fractals Workshop Series: An Intro to Computation in Architecture // Lecture at IIT Hyderabad 2015

+Womenpreneurs // Startup Saturday by HeadStart 2015

+DesignAwareness // Lecture at Canadian University of Dubai 2014

+Wearable Structures // Seminar at Raffles Millenium International Institute of Technology, Hyderabad 2012

+A Deflatable Architecture: the use of vacuumatics in building systems // Seminar at Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture & Fine Arts University (JNAFAU), Hyderabad 2010

+The Disappearing Studio // Public Presentation at CineArch, Saptaparni 2010

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