The landscape of digital humanities, corollary to the rapid social and technical evolutions, undergoes a constant and profound methodological transformation, necessitating a continuous and critical reevaluation of contemporary methods and practices used by DHers. In light of this, the upcoming session of DHARTI Speaks series convenes to examine the complex intersections & evolution of design, historiography, and digital archiving. We are privileged to host Ishita Shah—distinguished curator, designer, historian, and the founding visionary behind Curating for Culture.
Join us for her talk, “My Dilemmas, as a Curator: Research, Writing, or Coding”, where she reflects on the challenges and choices that shape contemporary curatorial practice.
Date: Tuesday, 31 March 2026
Time: 7:30 PM IST
Exclusively for DHARTI members
This members-only event is part of our ongoing series that brings together scholars, practitioners, and educators in Digital Humanities to reflect, debate, and imagine new futures. To join DHARTI, if you haven’t already, visit: http://dhdharti.in
About Ishita:
Trained as a designer and historian, Ishita Shah is a research-based practitioner invested in curating initiatives for cultural and historical preservation, community engagement and creative interpretation. During the pandemic, she has been conducting online engagements on constructing personal archives with an intention to further create possibilities for archiving in India and the Global South. She is a consulting archivist and historian at the Pattani Archives, Bhavnagar, and mentoring the Britto Art Trust Archive, Bangladesh.
She has also curated dissemination projects in collaboration with Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd., National Centre for Biological Sciences and The Courtyard in Bengaluru, conducted learning engagements with INTACH, been an educator and the coordinator to the UNESCO Chair in Culture, Habitat and Sustainable Development at Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She is also the founding archivist and oral historian at CEPT Archive: for architecture, planning and design in India, and worked with RIBA, INSITE Magazine, SPADE India and DICRC.
She is currently pursuing research on the architectural history of 20th century India through the perspective of women practitioners as a Graham Foundation Grantee 2020 and is exploring subversive frameworks for community archiving projects through Futura Tropica Fellowship 2020.
You can follow Ishita Shah’s work here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishitasha/
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