The Sustainable Design Collective just lately joined forces with Design Mumbai to host panel discussions at this quickly increasing occasion. Attracting over 9,000 guests and 100+ main, international manufacturers, Design Mumbai’s launch in 2024 marked India’s first-ever B2B worldwide modern design commerce present for design, structure, and interiors professionals. The second iteration was held at Jio World Backyard on Twenty sixth-Twenty ninth November 2025. The occasion has already turn out to be a platform, each for Indian manufacturers looking for international recognition and for worldwide firms that wish to faucet into the affluent and fast-growing Indian design market.
With chapters within the UK and India, the Sustainable Design Collective was invited to affix the Design Mumbai Change Talks Programme which brings collectively a global line-up of architects, designers and thought leaders, alongside India’s most influential business voices to debate questions of creativity, urbanism, sustainability, and the way design impacts international tradition.
The primary panel, hosted on Day One, was ‘India-focussed’. Moderated by Harsha Kotak, co-founder of the Sustainable Design Collective and founding father of Ladies in Workplace Design, the theme for the dialogue was ‘Designing Regionally: Indian Supplies, Craft and Local weather-Responsive Habitats’.
Audio system included one in every of India’s most celebrated multidisciplinary designers, Pinakin Patel. With a deep-rooted understanding of Indian philosophy, his eponymous studio has, over the previous 45 years, championed the aesthetic of India Fashionable. He was joined by Roshani Karekar of award-winning agency, SJK Architects. The structure, inside design and grasp planning observe has constructed its popularity by highlighting how modern design will be rooted in craft.
As a founder member of SDC India and Senior Principal Sustainability at Jacobs, Shuchita Gupta provided perception into the combination of sustainability ideas inside the technical necessities of engineering challenges. Alex Webb, Sustainability Supervisor at Future Works, a part of The Furnishings Apply, highlighted the alternatives for collaboration and studying throughout worldwide markets.
The panel on Day 2 had a global theme: World Improvements & Techniques in Sustainable Office Design. Moderated by Harsha Kotak, fellow SDC co-founder, Joanna Knight was joined by Johan Lindau, proprietor at Swedish furnishings producer, Bla Station; Phil Towle, Affiliate Director of Sustainability and Provide Chain at The Furnishings Apply; and Senior Director and Head of Design and Office, India at Cushman and Wakefield, Zainab Makadam.
Discussions have been primarily focussed on the drive for better circularity and lifecycle administration along with certifications and initiatives, reminiscent of Digital Product Passports.
Initially fashioned 4 years in the past, The Sustainable Design Collective is a suppose tank group of office architects, designers and specifiers focussed on educating and driving better commitments in direction of sustainability. As a part of that mission, SDC is dedicated to information sharing and collaboration by means of occasions, shows and panel discussions in addition to a web based coaching academy and journal. SDC India has a longtime chapter in Banglalore with Mumbai following in 2026.
