Prasad Boradkar

Prasad Boradkar, Product Design: 1989, has been a design educator and researcher for over 25 years. Since 2000, Prasad has been a professor in Industrial Design at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe. He has served the director of InnovationSpace, a transdisciplinary laboratory at ASU where faculty and students from design, business, sustainability and engineering partner with corporations to develop human-centred product concepts that hold a societal benefit and minimize impacts on the environment. He also served as the co-director of the Biomimicry Center at ASU, an organization dedicated to the exploration of biologically-inspired solutions to problems of sustainability. For his contribution to design education and research, in October 2018, the Department of Design at the Ohio State University recognized Prasad as one of its fifteen “Distinguished Alumni”. Currently, Prasad is currently on a leave of absence from ASU to serve as user research and sustainability lead on a project at Google in Mountain View, CA. Prasad is the author of the book Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects.