Richa Narvekar

Principal Designer at SmāraStudio

Speaker

Richa is a Spatial Design Professional and Visual Artist that is interested in the connect between Art, Architecture, Urban and Interior Design. She earned her Bachelors in Architecture at CEPT University, India and was a British Council scholar to the Masters in Architecture, Urban Design program at The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK.

She currently teaches in the Environmental Design department at OCAD U in Toronto, Canada.

She is a registered architect under the Council of Architecture, India. Her practice, based out of Toronto, Canada and Goa, India is multidisciplinary, with a focus on projects in Interior Design. She has led several interior design and build projects as a Senior Designer for firms in the Greater Toronto Area. She is also involved with sustainable and community focused art and urban initiatives in both Canada and India. Her practice explores vernacular, critical regionalist, decolonial and inclusive approaches to material and ways of making.