Founder and Principal Designer, KORA Design Collaborative, Hyderabad.

A Print maker, a Design Graduate from NID, Ahmedabad.

Satish has an extensive background and expertise working with the textile and craft sectors in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Jharkhand, Bengal, Orissa and Bihar.

KORA Design Collaborative is a design and research practice initiated by a small group of designers, technicians and master crafts persons. Satish leads KORA.

KORA’s work is a practical application of the principals of ecology, which sees people as crucial to any successful environmental projects. The work mainly focuses on understanding available natural resources, developing local skills and setting up of decentralized, least “capital-energy” requiring systems that would create sustainable livelihood to hundreds of people. In the process one try to emphasize and establish deep ecological, cultural and historical links between people and the eco- systems.