Sandeep Viswanath

Senior Consultant - Media Lab | sviswanath at iihs dot ac dot in

EDUCATION:
2014    MA, Media and Cultural Studies, TISS, Mumbai, India
2007    BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, BMSCE, Karnataka

 

 

 

Countries: India
States: Karnataka
Cities: Bengaluru
Languages: English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam

 

Sandeep believes that the practice of arts should not be divorced from socio-political realities of our society and has att empted to practice his craft in this manner. He worked as an IT consultant for two years, soon after he quit engineering to devote his energies in the pursuit of filmmaking. As a filmmaker, Sandeep has worked on films on varied subjects such as issue of child labour, landless labourers, subaltern labour in Bollywood, F water management in cities and Mumbai mill era. Some of his films have been screened in festivals in India and abroad. His film on MGNREGA worker’s rights has been awarded by the Government of India for being innovative in educating the MGNREGA workers. He has produced documentaries in Bhil and Pawri languages using participatory media approach. Sandeep holds a master’s degree in Media and Cultural Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. has research interests in labour rights, food, culture and invisible labour in film production. He has worked on media literacy for children in various regions of India.

Previous Teaching Experience

2014-2016
High School students at Government Schools in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra.
2011-2012
High School students at Government Ashram Shalas in Maharashtra
2009-2011
Street children at Bornfree Art school, Bengaluru

Books/ Book Chapters

Surie, A., Goswami, A., Arakali, A., Revi, A., Ravindranath, D., Bhan, G., Anand, G., Balakrishnan, K., Kapoor, N., Sami, N., Vasanth, P., Anand, S., Smitha, M. B., Viswanath, S., Baberwal, S., Mitra, S., Batikar, T., & John, V. (2023). Towards a new urban practice: The urban fellows programme 2016-2022. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/9788195847303

 

Other Writing

Sen, G., Jain, G., Sandeep V. & Shreya K.A. (2019). Building a resilient organization to building a disaster resilient State – Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA). IIHS Case No 1-0037. Bangalore. Indian Institute for Human Settlements.

John, V., Viswanath, S., Vikrant, M. S., & Lokesh, B. S. (2021). Navigating exclusions within infrastructures of leisure: Visual expressions and examinations of single screen theatre spaces and the lives of their labour force. In S. Oosterlynck, E. Van Wymeersch, F.  Laoukili, M. Van Dam, & K. Boven (Eds.), RC21 Conference Sensing the City : Place, People, Power (p. 36). University of Antwerp, Belgium. https://medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/3713/d4a97a7e-6ba6-4221-b9b4-92c4de1983d5.pdf?_ga=2.2087863.749645352.1628689006-110507554.1628689006

Films

SBI YFI Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcMfi-rTHU
Wrestlershttps://youtu.be/7zVv0K2X0_0
Rain Makershttps://youtu.be/ZvCXdhsemQM?list=PLUC2Cgr3XxdwJ2o7GzqLXNsrwqqxqXbFI
NREGA Filmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMx1YAq9IA