Sudebi is a creative facilitator, trans-disciplinary narrative designer, educator, writer, researcher, futurist, thinker and conversationalist. She designs experiences, engagement and environment using multiple modalities and media that allow people to think and have dialogue, make their thinking and interaction visible and thus enable them to co-design their own solutions and narratives using different modes and forms. She brings in inquiry driven, pluriversal, context-based design and trans-disciplinarity into her work. Sudebi emphasises on socially, environmentally and culturally relevant issues while inter-weaving design, imagination, complex systems thinking, pedagogy, crafts, entrepreneurialism, visual and performing arts, oral history, ethnography, and research to co-create inclusive and regenerative possibilities.
Sudebi has co-founded the trans-disciplinary global design collective, D.epicentre in 2016. An Associate Dean and faculty member at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India since 2010, Sudebi has started a unique pedagogy, art and design led trans-local initiative “The Archival City- a Site of Learning’. She was the Creative Facilitator of SEAΔ, a trans-national cross-cultural leadership programme, across S-E Asia and the UK, is the lead designer and co-author of a ‘Fair Collaborations Toolkit in Cultural Relations’ for the EUNIC, a mentor and evaluator for the Cultural Relations Platform, a global UNLEASH talent, an NGFP jury member, guest faculty or collaborator in many global institutions and a mentor of many global innovation programmes. She is awarded the Innovator for ITAC Innovation Think Tank 2021.
