Alok b. Nandi is busy with innovation, strategy and interaction design for multiple companies and institutions (using creative tools such as the ViA-Framework). As a designer, creative director, design strategist, writer-director, he explores hybrid creative contexts via Architempo & Klabfab & coCreationcamp.
He is dealing with storytelling in multiple media, space and technologies, from high-tech interactive installations to low-tech mise-en-scène.
His professional experiences cover a range of entrepreneurial activities (intrapreneurship, spin-off, creative entrepreneurship) and include a.o. brand and advertising (P&G – Procter & Gamble), film production, exhibition design and new media in publishing (Casterman – publisher of a.o. Tintin, groupe Flammarion).
Alok Nandi is a regular speaker at international conferences and events (incl. PechaKucha Tokyo, TEDx Flanders, IxDA, WDO, SDN) and invited professor in multiple institutions. In parallel, he launched PechaKucha Brussels and IxDA Brussels (Interaction Design Association). Participated in multiple juries (new media, film, design, entrepreneurship, food systems, …).
Alok Nandi chaired Interaction14 in Amsterdam [1000+ attendees] and served on the IxDA Board of Directors, a.o. as President (Feb.2018-Feb.2020). For IxDA, he is busy with initiatives like the Design Declaration and P-R-E with Cumulus Association, Practice meeting Research meeting Education.
Alok Nandi is professor of innovation & design at Institut Lyfe, hospitality-culinary school in Lyon, co-founded by chef Paul Bocuse, 3* Michelin.