Ar. Palinda Kannangara has a background in both Mathematics and Architecture. He established his independent practice in 2005, based in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka. Palinda Kannangara Architects is known for an experiential architectural approach grounded in simplicity and a deep connection to the natural environment. The practice is recognized for its contextual sensitivity, crafted material expression, and restrained minimalism reflective of the Sri Lankan ethos. The firm's work spans diverse landscapes across Sri Lanka and, more recently, India. The studio has received several prestigious national and international awards, including the RIBA International Award for Excellence in Architecture and the Geoffrey Bawa Award

Dar & Wagh is a design practice that provides integrated solutions for the built environment, encompassing master planning, architecture, landscape, interiors, lighting, and furniture design.

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Ar. Ranjit Wagh & Ar. Amber Dar, the founders of the studio, were trained in the modernist architectural tradition at CEPT, Ahmedabad and refined their skills over a decade in Singapore with WOHA and Kerry Hill Architects.

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They approach architecture as rooted in the fundamentals of human relationships, rather than material gymnastics. Their design philosophy focuses on clarifying, re-appropriating, and delineating spaces, that are exceptionally refined with a sense of rest.

Founder of Untitled, Amrita Guha is an interior designer known for her quietly powerful, craft-led approach to contemporary spaces. Her work is rooted in a deep engagement with artisan communities across India, where collaboration becomes a means of preserving and reinterpreting traditional knowledge within modern contexts.

Through Untitled, she builds narratives that are refined yet grounded—where materiality, process, and people are as integral as the final form. Her practice consistently explores the intersection of design, culture, and sustainability, resulting in spaces that are timeless, thoughtful, and deeply contextual.

As a speaker, Amrita brings a perspective shaped by on-ground collaborations and a commitment to design that goes beyond aesthetics—towards impact, continuity, and meaning

Swanzal Kak Kapoor is the design principal at Saka Studio, an award winning architectural practice based in Gurgaon. She has 27 years of experience of working in a diversity of contexts and scales and believes in an architecture of resonance and a culture of social responsibility.

Her architectural and interior work celebrates cultural specificity, craft, embodied emotions, ecological consciousness and collaborative synergy.

Her interest in civic action and the environment led to her co-founding iamgurgaon in 2009, a platform to enable change through community participation, and she has been an integral member of the team behind the 385 acre Aravali Biodiversity Park in Gurgaon.