Archit Dhiman


I am a creative practitioner and a learner. I design publications, visual identities, exhibitions, and websites. Trained as a visual designer, over the years my practice has been shaped by my interests in visual & material cultures, pluriversality, place-based practice, publication infrastructures, self-hosting, soundscapes, djing and creative coding.

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Peep into the Village
The Design Village
2021

Peep into the Village is a web portal designed for the learning community at The Design Village. The intent was to create an interface for design students and academicians to engage with the curriculum and pedagogy beyond just structures and timelines, with a little life and serendipity. The web portal was imagined as space where the many objects, spaces, people and the stories of the village live.


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Naubad Karez: Rapid Assessment
LLN Press
2024

In Bidar there are three Karez systems which were built in 15th Century ACE during the Bahmani rule which are Jamna Mori, Shukla Theerth and Naubad Karez.

The rapid assessment of Naubad Karez line in Naubad area, Bidar city was conducted to identify the current changes on the ground. The goal is to secure the time and resources necessary to develop refined, up-to-date, and more comprehensive condition assessment documents in near future.

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AIRE
The Design Village
2024

 
A generative design system for a dynamic young film prouction studio based out of Mumbai.

This project was developed for The Design Cell at The Design Village, India for a mumbai based venture.

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Networks of Greenhub
Greenhub India
2026

Networks of Greenhub is a visualisation of the web of relationships that together make up the ecosystem of Greenhub India. This visualization is imagined to make the diverse, multi-geographic, and interconneted network of relationships within Greenhub India visible. The visualisation also serves as a  tool for long-term archival processes as wellas planning within the organisation and programmes.

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Responsible Tourism Blueprint
Responsible Tourism Fellowship
2026

The Green Hub–Royal Enfield Responsible Tourism Fellowship has been operational across sites in the North East India for several cohorts. By its fourth year,
the programme and mentor team identified the need for a structured reflection to inform a formal Responsible Tourism Blueprint, a codified framework of principles,
learning modules, selection criteria, and site development strategies aimed at improving programme effectiveness.

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Dakkhan Ke
Living Labs Network & Forum
2025 - Present

Dakkhan Ke is a newly constituted living lab within Living Labs Network and Forum, where we co-create plural craft futures rooted in Dakkhan. The larger vision is to build spaces which are imagined as coming together of artisans, craftspersons and creative professionals to appreciate, learn and co-create with each other.



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Living Labs Institute
Living Labs Network & Forum
2025 - Present

LLI is a stand-alone institution that fosters community-academia knowledge co-creation. The institute is envisioned to become an open collaborative place-based knowledge observatory to experiment, reflect and evolve modes of learning and pedagogy situated in several micro-contexts that make a place.

This section documents some of my works for LLI as a fellow associated with the School for Reimagining Technilogy as well a the School for the Wellbeing of Arts & Crafts Practics.

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Where the Forest Teaches
Nature Conservation Foundation
2026

Where the Forest Teaches is a collection of nature education activities rooted in the forests, wildlife, and lived landscapes of Northeast India. Co-created by educators, community facilitators, and practitioners during a shared learning process, this manual brings
together games, practices, and experiences that invite learners to slow down, observe, sense, and connect with nature.



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Yashraj Bharati Samman
2023

The Yashraj Bharati Samman was instituted by the Yashraj Research Foundation to felicitate and honour exemplary indiviual and oragnization working at the grassroots of India. The visual identity developed intends to hold a sense of gratitude and prestige for the work done by the recipients of this award.

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Community-owned Mesh Network (COMN)
Aruvu Collaboratory
2024

As internet connectivity becomes a key aspect influencing Social Determinants of Health(SDoH), Community (owned) Mesh Networks are intended to be decentralized and embedded network infrastructures. These infrastructures are co-imagined and co-built in ways that are community-driven and are responsive to local realities. COMN was co-built with a hamlet in coastal Karnataka, Hara.

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INCLUDE 2025: Collective Intelligence
Royal College of Art, The Design Village
2024

INCLUDE is a global conference, which, since its inception in 2001 has steered global initiatives in applying inclusive design principles and practices to social, economic, environmental, technological, and healthcare challenges.  

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Samagra Arogya: From Welfare to Care
Aruvu Collaboratory, LLN Press
2025

Samagra Arogya is a long-term place based engagement focusing on decentralized approaches to understand and address local manifestations of Social Determinants of Health (SdoH) that affect holistic well-being. This compendium presents outcomes and reflections of the work done in two phases from September 2023 to March 2025.

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Co-creative & Adaptive Networks
The Design Village
2023 - 2024

What started as a small effort in acknowledging the crossroads that learners find themselves in as they get ready to step out into the real world slowly became CAN, Co-creative & Adaptive Networks - a confluence where learners from senior years and graduates, meet people from the industry in the capacity of network peers. The intent was to facilitate meaningful networking through one on one/one on multiple moments of creative engagement and co-incidental interactions, with people in the design, innovation and extended arts and culture space.  



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In Shade(s) of the Canopy
Canopy Collective
2025

A retrospective publication bringing togeher the various works and engagements by Canopy Collective done in the last two yeas.

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Repair Cafe Collective India
Repair Cafe
2026

Repair Cafe Collective India maps and supports local repairers — the tailors, cobblers, electricians, and mobile technicians who keep everyday things working.

Their new website was imagined and developed to host a growing directory of repairers across different cities in India.

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This site was last updated in May 2026.