STIR
Instituted in 2014, STIR was founded to promote, propagate and foster creativity and innovation in the fields of design, architecture and new-media art in India and across the world. Over the years, STIR has manifested through various media to facilitate the exchange of ideas, enable collaborations, showcase trends and technology, and create a collective of enthusiasts from different streams of the creative realm.
In 2015, STIR launched its first initiative – mondo*arc india, a content-led and perspective-driven publication that soon became the country’s fastest-growing design journal.
2019 marked the birth of STIRworld.com – a global digital publication that is committed to featuring the best in design, architecture and new-media art.
In 2021, STIR launched STIRpad.com - a destination for creators, gallerists and designers to share new collections, new collaborations, new exhibitions and announcements, and manufacturers to unveil their new designs. It’s a point that connects the community of designers, educators and innovators who are on a quest for something new.
STIR is a multi-faceted platform that connects the industry to professionals. A medium that enables collaboration between professionals and allied industry. A destination that engages the community in dialogue, debates and discourses. A place where the community discovers products for operational efficiency, finds critical acclaim and generates business opportunities. STIR has also curated and organised a series of successful online and offline events, conferences, workshops and exhibitions to reinforce its ideology.
Team Contributors

Amit Gupta
Founder & Editor-in-ChiefA designer, thinker and conceptualiser for all things creative, provocative and challenging, Amit founded STIR as a global platform that offers exclusively curated, carefully analysed and meticulously presented content. STIR presents arenas for cross-disciplinary collaborations, industry connects and community building in order to reach out to a large audience of design enthusiasts, consumers, next-generation creators and thinkers within the world of art, architecture and design.
Amit traversed into promoting design and architecture by establishing the first Indian design management company - vis a vis, in 1997. vis a vis curated highly acclaimed events as the first architecture and design gallery in India. In 2014, he launched STIR as a reinvention of vis a vis to foster creativity in an ecosystem nurtured by quantitative and qualitative contribution to the world’s creative economy.

Hardeep Gupta
DirectorAn entrepreneur, design enthusiast, theatre artist, actor and singer, for Hardeep anything creative is purely a way of life. A Master of Business Economics by qualification with an analytical research based skill-set, her experience of over two decades adds quantitative and qualitative perspective to the business.

Samta Nadeem
Curatorial DirectorWith an interdisciplinary background that equips her keen perspective on creative cultures, Samta leads content curation and curatorial programming at STIR. A curator, lighting designer, creative director and critical thinker, she is passionate about engaging with issues of social and environmental justice through design and discourse. Samta has an MA in Curating Contemporary Design and freelances with institutions such as the Design Museum London.

Pramiti Madhavji
Consultant, Content AdviserPramiti advises on content, design and brand strategy. Having worked in the publishing industry for almost three decades, she has been the Founding Editor of ELLE DECOR India and helmed it for 18 years.

Arjun Mehra
Global Commercial DirectorArjun spearheads the strategic business growth for STIR. He was the Chief Business Officer of Conde Nast India's four titles - Vogue, GQ, Conde Nast Traveller and Architectural Digest - for over 15 years, overseeing the print, digital and event businesses across brands. Arjun is an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Class of 1993.

Jigyasa Sharma
Head of Marketing and CommunicationJigyasa looks after marketing alliances and communication, handles search engine optimisation, social media and all digital marketing channels. Her love for numbers and a curiosity for online user experience got her here. With a background in BBM e-banking, she is backed by seven years of work experience with tech companies and start-ups alike. She proudly calls herself a dog mom, a bibliophile and a Jim Morrison fan, in that order.

Devanshi Shah
Assistant EditorDevanshi is responsible for thinking of new and original approaches to architectural writing. An educator, curator and architect, she has a Master's degree in History and Critical Thinking from the Architectural Association, a Bachelor's in Architecture, and a Diploma in Indian Aesthetics. Devanshi has a certificate in Curatorial Studies and co-curated an exhibition at A plus A Gallery, Venice, in 2019. She has been teaching at institutes in Mumbai since 2018.

Prachi Chadha
Assistant Managing EditorPrachi plans and manages all daily operations and ensures everything we publish is factually and grammatically correct, as well as SEO compliant. With an experience of 15 years in the field of journalism and publishing, she has worked with the likes of NDTV, Goethe-Institut and Maxposure Media Group. She believes those who correctly place an apostrophe are an endangered species, and punctuations save lives!

Simona De Franchi
Business Head - RegionalSimona enjoys making connections with leading brands in the world of architecture and design, and representing some of the most important Italian companies in the industry while helping them get established in the Asian market. She grew up in Italy where art and design are everywhere, and started following her passion of travelling around the world through her work after graduating in law.

Dilip Shah
Head of FinanceFrom raising funds to crunching numbers, from budgeting to auditing, from cashflow to book keeping, Dilip heads all finance, accounts and legal matters. Company secretary by profession, he has been with the group and its promoters for over 17 years.

Fabiana Rodriguez
Business Development ManagerFabiana supports the expansion of STIR in Europe and the US. She was born and raised in Venezuela, nevertheless in the past 10 years she has lived in 9 countries between Europe, Asia, Middle East and Latin America, leading business development projects. Previous to STIR she worked in international communication consultancy, moving from country to country living surreal experiences. Fabiana enjoys dancing, trekking and boxing, and is also an arts and culture lover.

Zohra Khan
Senior Features WriterWriting, probing and research have been key to Zohra's work at STIR. A formal education in architecture and a fond connection with storytelling brought her here. She believes that the best piece of writing comes out of ‘non-action’, and for someone as disquiet as her, it’s an everyday struggle. A mother of one, she loves travelling and tuning into culture-related podcasts.

Anmol Ahuja
Senior Features WriterAs a writer, Anmol channels his interests into lucid pieces on sensitive, remarkable architecture and global design. He is an architect by education with over five years of multidisciplinary work experience in core and allied architecture, design and content curation, with an avid love for the cinematic medium and graphic novel. He seeks to coalesce his interests and his 'lenses' of parallel architectural thought through his current pursuit of a Master's Degree in History and Critical Thinking in Architecture at the AA School in London.

Jincy Iype
Features WriterJincy writes and researches content centred on the best of global design and architecture. An architect by training, she enjoys picking the minds of creatives and weaving their ideas and works onto worded tapestries.

Almas Sadique
Junior Features WriterAlmas divides her time as a writer between STIRpad and STIRworld, researching and writing on and about the latest creations and creators from the art and design world. An architect by education, she is driven by the curiosity to explore the factors that impact and are impacted by every kind of design.

Anushka Sharma
Junior Features WriterAn architect by education, Anushka is intrigued by the power words hold in translating seemingly mundane things into something magnificent. An avid vocalist and a fitness enthusiast driven by her passion for writing and researching, and guided by her formal education and training, she strives to explore the space where tangible forms meet intangible emotions.

Sunena V Maju
Junior Features WriterAs a writer, Sunena believes everything has a story and strives to pen down the stories that architecture holds and hides. An avid lover of history and architectural theories, she questions the design process while probing into the relevance it holds for the world of tomorrow. When she's not writing, you may find her curious mind wandering around the writings of Dan Brown or Paulo Coelho.

Kewal Singh
Senior Manager (Design & Production)Kewal is responsible for daily web production and backend edit ops. With nearly two decades of experience in magazine and book publication, he has been working on graphics and art since our inception.

Varun Jairath
Tech Lead – Web, SEOVarun heads the technical team and manages web development, programming and SEO. He is a performance-driven project management professional with more than 13 years of progressive expertise.

Mandeep Singh
Senior Web DeveloperAs a web application developer, Mandeep enjoys experimenting with new technology and innovative techniques to improve the everyday applications in website management.
Contributors
If you are keen to join our team, please send us a brief note about yourself and your experiences in the field design, research or journalism. Email us: careers@stirworld.com