Amit KrishnaGulati is an award winning industrial designer, entrepreneur and educator with a multifaceted oeuvre encompassing New Product Development, Healthcare, Branding, Built Environments and Retail Experiences.
Amit completed the post-graduate programme in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad in 1995 and is the co-founder of Incubis, one of India’s leading architecture and design companies with several Fortune 500 clients.
In addition to leading the design team at Incubis, Amit teaches at The School of Planning and Architecture - New Delhi, Anant University - Ahmedabad and at his alma-mater, NID-
Ahmedabad.
Amit came and taught a course on ‘Design Thinking’ at the Naropa Fellowship. The objective was to give the Naropa Fellows an interactive immersion into Design Thinking principles and methods. The core idea was to apply empathy while solving problems, to enhance the ability to identify and respond to existing and emerging challenges, and apply greater sensitivity while dealing with people-centric businesses or innovating / scaling new services or products.