Alok NANDI

Alok b. Nandi is busy with innovation, strategy and interaction design for multiple companies and institutions, using tools such as the VIA-Framework. As a designer, creative director, design strategist, director, he explores hybrid creative contexts. He is dealing with storytelling in multiple media, space and technologies, from high-tech interactive installations to low-tech mise-en-scène. His previous professional experiences include a.o. brand and advertising (P&G), film production, exhibition design and new media in publishing (Casterman).

He is a lecturer and invited professor as well as regular speaker at international conferences and events (incl. PechaKucha Tokyo, TEDx Flanders). In parallel, he launched PechaKucha Brussels and IxDA group in Brussels (Interaction Design Association).

He also chaired Interaction14 in Amsterdam, and served on the IxDA Board of Directors, as President (Feb.2018-Feb.2020), and for the Design Declaration.

Alok is professor of design, creativity & innovation at Institut Paul Bocuse, hospitality-culinary, founded by chef Paul Bocuse, 3* Michelin.