Abhigyan Singh

Dr. A. (Abhigyan) Singh

Contact

A.Singh@tudelft.nl

Ruimte: 32.C-3-110

Profiel

Abhigyan Singh is an Assistant Professor of Design Anthropology for Social Change at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. He is also a Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute), Co-Lead Social Economic Subtask of the International Energy Agency’s Global Observatory on Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading (GOP2P), and a member of the Executive Committee of PowerWeb Institute, and Climate Governance Flagship of TU Delft.

His work has been exhibited at diverse venues such as Dutch Design Week (2024, 2019, 2017) and has won many awards, such as the 2021 WWNA Apply Award from the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Applied Anthropology Network (EASA-AAN), and Second Prize at Cumulus 20^thAnniversary Exhibition (‘Young Creators for Better City & Better Life’) hosted by Tongji University in combination with Shanghai World Expo.

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Onderzoeksinteresses

Design Anthropology
Design Ethnography in/with digital and real-world contexts
Value Exchanges (such as reciprocity, giving, gifting, sharing, and bartering)
Social Design
Social behaviors and practices for energy and climate action
Design perspectives from non-western contexts

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Academische achtergrond

Abhigyan holds a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), a Master’s in New Media Design from Aalto University School of Art, Design, and Architecture (Finland), and a Bachelor’s in Information and Communication Technology from DA-IICT (India).

His fascination and engagement with (social and economic) anthropology deepened through courses and collaborations at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.

After his PhD, Abhigyan briefly worked as a postdoctoral researcher (2020-21) at Erasmus University School of Health Policy and Management and as a Guest Researcher (2019) at Cybersecurity Group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS), TU Delft.

His academic path has seen him in diverse roles—from research intern (2012) at IBM Research (India) to interaction designer and programmer (2011-13) for the Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab and Parallel & Distributed Systems Group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS), TU Delft, and earlier research assistant roles in Finland at Crucible Studio and the ARKI Research Group.

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