THE PRACTICE
About
ArcShapers
A research, curation, and consulting practice focused on the innovation legacies of products, craft traditions, and institutions — and on making those histories visible, accessible, and useful for the organisations that hold them.
PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY"Objects are one of the most powerful lenses through which to understand how societies change, how innovation happens, and how culture is made and remade over time."
India holds one of the world's richest design histories — in its products, craft traditions, institutions, and everyday objects. Most of this history remains invisible. Not because it doesn't exist, but because it hasn't yet been found, interpreted, and told. ArcShapers was built to do that work.
Deepika Srivastava
FOUNDER - DESIGN CURATOR & HERITAGE CONSULTANT
Deepika Srivastava is a design curator and heritage consultant passionate about looking at the world through ‘objects’—their histories, meanings, and transformations over time. With experience of 7+ years, her work spans consumer product histories (with Godrej Archives), development projects (with the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad) and documentation of historical artefacts (with House of Kathiwada). She has taught as visiting faculty at institutions including NID Ahmedabad and BITS Design School, and serves as a Trustee of the Design History Society.
She is an alumna of the Royal College of Art, London (MA History of Design), and CEPT University (Bachelors in Interior Design), Ahmedabad.
