Sandeep Viswanath

Senior Consultant – Media Lab
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Sandeep Viswanath has worked on films on issues of child labour, landless labourers, subaltern labour in Bollywood, water management in cities and Mumbai mill era. He has produced documentaries in Bhil and Pawri languages using participatory media approach. His research interests in labour rights, food, culture and film production. He is passionate about teaching. He is an alumni of TISS, Mumbai. He is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD in Bengaluru.

Education
2007
BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, BMS College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
2014
MA, Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Ongoing
PhD, Cultural Studies, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Geography of Work
Country
United Kingdom, Nepal, India, China
State
Andhra Pradesh, delhi-ncr, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Chandigarh, dadra-and-nagar-haveli, daman-and-diu, Puducherry
City
Amaravati, Chittoor, Vijayawada, Guwahati, Chandigarh, delhi-ncr, Panaji, Ahmedabad, Surat, Valsad, Bengaluru, Hubballi-Dharwad, Kalaburagi, Madikeri, Mangaluru, Mysuru, Tumakuru, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Bhopal, Indore, Amravati, Dhule, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, Bhubaneswar, Amritsar, Jaipur, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Agra, Darjeeling, Kolkata
Languages
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam

TEACHING AT IIHS

2023, Media and Film – Media Lab, Faculty member, Media and mass communication, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)
2023, Advanced Media Skills – Media Lab, Faculty member, Media and mass communication, Urban Fellows Programme (UFP)

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THEMATIC AREAS

Community Engagement, Culture and Society, Education, Food, Pedagogy, Planning, Social Identity, Urban Inequality