I also recently gave a talk session as a part of Democratic Design Days in Basel, hosted by IKEA Switzerland. I’ve been working on a collection that involves collaborating with local designers and craftsmen from Middle-east Asia, India, and South-east Asia. Not just with regards to IKEA but also your personal projects. Tell us a bit about what you are working on right now. Here we dig deeper into what’s stewing at her end. She embodies a JODI woman.īorn and brought up in New Delhi, India - Akanksha was the first Indian designer to be handpicked by IKEA and also their youngest. So choosing her as one of the women we focus on was no surprise. Almost like we could be back in our school corridors, chatting away. What I adore about her is that even now, after all these years Akanksha has the same abandon. She always spoke so passionately about how she viewed the world and its various details. She’d take time out and explain them to me. While passing each other in corridors I would always see Akanksha hurrying past, spilling over with knit explorations. I’ve been lucky to see and know Akanksha before IKEA happened to her or before JODI happened to me. Akanksha Sharma, designer at IKEA is one such person. You see them and just know that they’re brain is working differently. Some people are born bursting with creative abundance.
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