Anisha did her Phd in Design education from Industrial Design Centre (IDC), School of Design at IIT- Bombay. Her thesis was titled ‘Investigating the effect of collaborative structures on design problem solving in children’. She is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad where she studied Information Design. In the past, she has worked as an independent design educator teaching at various design colleges and has conducted several creativity workshops for children.
At HBCSE, her post doctoral work focuses on resource development for children on fundamentals of design.
Tel: 91-22-25072225
Email: anisha[at]@hbcse.tifr.res.in
Publications
Book Chapter/ Proceeding
Muralidhar, A., Jategaonkar, A., & Malhotra-Dalvi, A. (2023). Trace the waste: An educational game on waste management. Abstract Booklet of the Proceedings of the 13th IconSWM-CE & IPLA Global Forum 2023 (p.32). Mumbai: K J Somaiya Institute of Management.
[Awarded Best Paper Presentation Award]
Malhotra-Dalvi, A. (2023). Visualising student interaction and collaborative design ideation for design sessions with school students. In A. Chakrabarti and V. Singh (eds.), Design in the Era of Industry 4.0, Volume 3. ICORD 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 346 (pp 503-513). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0428-0_41
Books
Chunawala, S., Muralidhar, A., Malhotra-Dalvi, A., & Chougule, M. (2022). Design activity book. India: HBCSE. (ISBN: 978-81-958054-0-2)
In Journals
Malhotra-Dalvi, A., Muralidhar, A., Chunawala, S., Dolas, A., & Shinde, R. (2022, November). Unfolding the newspaper: Newspaper design by children, for children. Technology and Engineering Teacher 82(3), 8-13.
In Conference Proceedings
Chougule, M., Malhotra-Dalvi, A., Muralidhar, A., & Chunawala, S. (2022). Diversity of design solutions to help another person in a real world problem. In K. Seemann and P. J. Williams (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Biennial International Design and Technology Teacher’s Association Research Conference (DATTArc), 7-10 Dec.2022, in collaboration with the ICTE, TENZ and ITEEA. Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus.
Malhotra-Dalvi, A., Muralidhar, A., Dbritto, D., & Chunawala, S. (2022). Structure and symbols: A visual analysis of flags designed by children. In K. Seemann and P. J. Williams (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Biennial International Design and Technology Teacher’s Association Research Conference (DATTArc), 7-10 Dec.2022, in collaboration with the ICTE, TENZ and ITEEA. Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus.
Dhond, P., & Malhotra-Dalvi, A. (2022). Game-based learning to raise awareness about water sustainability. In D. Chari and A. Gupta (Eds.), Proceedings of EPISTEME 9 International Conference to Review Research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, July 4—8, 2022, Mumbai (pp. 238-245). India: HBCSE.
Malhotra-Dalvi, A., Muralidhar, A., & Chunawala, S. (2021). Design of symbolic science characters: A visual design exercise with children. E-Proceedings of Designing for Children-With focus on ‘Play + Learn’, International Conference. Organised by IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 28-30 January 2021.
Malhotra-Dalvi, A.,Muralidhar, A., Dolas, A., Shinde, R., & Chunawala, S. (2020). Designing and making roller coasters by Indian middle school students. In K.K. Mashood, T. Sengupta, C. Ursekar, H. Raval and S. Dutta (Eds.), Proceedings of epiSTEME8: Eighth international conference to review research on Science, TEchnology and Mathematics Education, HBCSE (pp. 199-201). India: HBCSE/Gaurang Publishing Globalize Pvt. Ltd.
Expository articles
Malhotra-Dalvi, A. (2022, January). Building collaborative ideation. Teacher Plus,20(1), 22-24.
George, H., Malhotra-Dalvi, A., Muralidhar, A., Ladage, S., & Chunawala, S. (2020, July). Sing, draw, play or invent. Teacher Plus,18(6), 16-18.