DesignAware is an international award-winning experimental architecture and interdisciplinary design studio that was born of a desire to create awareness through livable / wearable / usable / accessible / responsible design.
DesignAware is deeply involved with built and natural environments, and with real and virtual worlds via investigative design research across discipline / method / scale / context / interface
DesignAware sparks discourse on the relevance of an open-ended approach to education and awareness through community engagement. Taking an entrepreneurial route, DesignAware has worked on various self-initiated projects, with a particularly strong focus on socially-relevant work. we continue to question methodological and pedagogical norms through our design research and practice.
DesignAware is not just a practice, it’s a movement.

 
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work

DesignAware’s portfolio cuts across a range of typologies, scales and contexts, including architecture, urbanism, interior and spatial design, object, furniture and lighting, and wearable design.
DesignAware is highly-selective of work, and each new project is seen as a puzzle to be solved with an exploratory, inquisitive and adventurous approach.
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process

MATERIALITY
DATA-DRIVEN
CREATIVITY FROM CONSTRAINTS
DESIGN ACCESS
gestalt
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
MICROARCHITECTURE
digital craft
AWARENESS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
PROTOSYSTEMS
GENERATIVE DESIGN
making
intelligENt SPaCES
stUDIO TO SITE
speculative design
pROGRAmMING MAttER
RECyCLABLE ARCHIteCtURE
Our work is process-driven and every design is a version, which can undergo tweaks and improvements during the process, and afterward. Recognizing this allows us to see each project as exploratory design research. All our methods are open-source: we like to share techniques and concepts that allow users and other designers to understand our work process.
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COLLECTIVE AUTHORSHIP
democracy in DESIGN
green architECTURE
THE DIGITAL VERNACULAR
FLOCK
stoRytellInG
VIRTUAL STUDIO
UNLEARNING
CROWDSOURCED DESIGN
RE-EVOLUTION
NATURe-driven
VIRTUAL reality
post-pandemic
pASSION PROJECT
desIGN RESEARCH
RESPECtING heritage
futURE OF WORK
Machine Learning/AI
Design is an essential component of many overlapping fields, ranging from art and product design, to furniture and interiors, to architecture and urbanism. We aim to address pressing issues in the world  through architecture and design, and  by embracing all kinds of projects and delivering unique and unconventional design solutions.
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awareness

DesignAware focuses on a community-oriented approach to teaching. We conduct workshops not only for design and architecture students, but also aim to bring design thinking to schools and professionals from other fields. We believe in collaboration and pluralizing the studio by creating a virtual network between individuals with different areas of expertise, no matter where they are located.
Join our generative ai workshop based on our award-winning project, WombHome!
the Fractals Workshop is a generative and computational design workshop that combines logic, geometry, natural systems and structure. Since 2011, the Fractals Workshop has been taught to people of all ages, backgrounds and skill sets across the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
Click here to learn more about the Fractals Workshop series.
If you’d like to engage us to organize a workshop, click here.