Soham Das | Profile
focused on new media design and creative technology, to design and actualize new physical and digital interactive crafts.

Some other obsessions are playing football, chess, books, poetry, painting, music and an avid lover of new foods. 
        
Education
Master in New Media Design
National Institute of Design
Gandhinagar, India
2024-2027

Master in Interaction Design
Domus Academy Milano
Milan, Italy
2021-2022

Bachelor in Electrical Engineering
Jadavpur University
Kolkata, India
2011-2015

Fine Arts | Painting - Ratna (6th Year)
Bangiya Sangeet Parishad
West Bengal, India
1998-2010


Employment
Creative Technologist & Interaction Designer
Studio Riccardo Mantelli
Milan, Italy
2022-2023

Visual Design & Research
Yoaatma.com
Bangalore, India
2019-2020

Cloud Development
IBM India
Bangalore, India
2016-2019


Skills
Conceptualization
Speculative & Critical Design
Design Research & UX Research
Ethnographic Research
Multi sensory Experience Design
Multi sensory Product Design
Interactive Installation
Creative Technology
HCI
Digital & Physical Prototyping
Web Design
Electronics and automation
Tools
Research & Collaboration & Visualization
Figma & Miro for Research & mapping
Figma, canva & Adobe Ps, Pr, Ae for Visual Design

Physical prototyping
Microcontrollers ( Arduino, ESP32,Raspberry Pi etc ) , Sensors and Actuators for interactive prototyping, Laser & CNC Fabrication

AI Tools
Vizcom, Cursor & other contemporary AI tools for Visualization, Prototyping, Research & Coding,  AI Agent Architecture & Tool Calling

Digital prototyping
html, css, js | node.js, git | Three.js, p5.js, Processing | Python | Cursor, VS Code etc for AI assisted coding
Exhibitions
Time for Bed
Interactive Art Installation
Studio Riccardo Mantelli
Milan Design Week
Milan, Italy
June, 2022

Il bosco che non c’è
Interactive Art Installation
Studio Riccardo Mantelli
Sacro Monte di Orta - Chapel 21
Orta, Italy
February, 2022


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designing new technologiesand new mediums ofexpression

Soham Das
New Media Design
Creative Technology


designing new technologies and new mediums of expression speculative and critical design, human-computer interaction, research and future technology in society at the intersection of Design, Technology, Art and Philosophy

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Explorations
Expressions over the years

Creative explorations from electronic art, creative technology, photography and visual design, creative coding, exhibition, storytelling etc.
Storytelling web experience

Concept, Design & Creative Technology : Soham Das
Acting : Priya Sharma, Mihika Saha, Vedant Manwadkar, Amal Pinheiro
Camera : Sana Khan
Conceptual Guidance & Faculties : Dr. Jignesh Khakhar, Kaushal Sapre, Purav Bhardwaj, Saurabh Srivastava, Akshat Gulati
Technical Guidance & Support : Arshad Pathan, Ravishekar Aradhya, Hemraj Koshthi, Maulik Sutariya, Nirmalsinh Rathod, Ganesh Bhai, Rahul Bhai
Special Thanks : Dhanjibhai Dantani, Paresh Bhai, Security, mess, cleaning, shifting and all other staff members, and NID community Poetry and Storytelling
Generative AI
UI UX
Web Experience Design
Digital Mixed Media
Artistic System Prompting

Imagination Studio, a Storytelling web experience
the unsaids | things left for imagination
November, 2025

to convey the beauty of the unsaid things, the things that are left for imagination — the pauses, the white spaces, the taken-for-granteds, the unexpected acts of goodwill or love, the dark patches between road lights, the unsent drafted texts.

experience
Electro-mechanical Kinetic Sculpture

Design & Creative Technology : Soham Das
Sound : Vedant Manwadkar
Camera : Atharv Kulkarni
Dark Room Construction : Bhaumik Amin, Ankan Kumar Saha, Navendu Sharma
Conceptual Guidance & Faculties : Dr. Bhaumik Nagar. Saurabh Srivastava, Dr. Subir Bhaduri, Dr. Miral Desai
Technical Guidance & Support : Arshad Pathan, Hemraj Koshthi, Ravishekar Aradhya, Hiren Gajjar, Karan Mehta, Maulik Sutariya, Nirmalsinh Rathod, Ganesh Bhai, Parth Bhai, Rahul Bhai
Special Thanks : Dhanjibhai Dantani, Jignesh Bhai, Paresh Bhai, Somnath Bhai, security, mess, cleaning, shifting,  and NID Community
 Electro-mechanical
Kinetic Sculpture
Creative Technology
Creative Coding
Experience Design
Art Installation
Electronic Storytelling

Roads. Attention. Affection. | an electronic Theatre
November, 2024

This kinetic sculpture explores the tangible and intangible dimensions of a relationship through one individual's perspective. Roads represent tangibility, Attention embodies intangibility, and Affection symbolises emotion. A rider's recurring journey reflects how experiences and memories are carried forward.

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Interactive Installation

Soham Das, Ajith Abiathar, Aleena Mahendra Patil, Chirag Ishn, Hemant Savadatti, Jaya Jyothi, Jayadrata Bala, Krushna Oza, Mayank Prasoon Tirkey, Navya Nova Chandalia, Rakshana A, Shivangi Suman, Siddharth Bharthy, Sowrya Mitra, Kolaka Sushma Reddy Aileni, Vaidehi Jha, Vamshik S, Vansh Patel, Vartika Subbarayan, Vasundhara Panda
Faculty: Nishant Upadhyay & Viorel Acsinte


 Interactive Installation
Algorithmic Forms
Architechtural Values
Conservation

Finding wakanda | A care through conservation 
Connecting Cultural Identities & Contemporary Ideas
January, 2025

To explore how contemporary design processes can respond to a monument from the 17th century using futuristic idea of algorithmic progressions.
Interactive Mechanical  Installation

Soham Das, Manuja Kadre, Princy Meegaa, Piyush Ranjan, Siddarth Barty, Rupesh Verma

Interactive Mechanical Installation
Indian & Western Art
Principles Fusion
Handloom Craft Mechanism

Visual Alchemy
"Roopbhedah pramanani bhava lavanya-yojanam | Sadrishyam varnakabhangam itichitram shadakam ||"
September, 2024

This interactive installation is an effort to explore the Indian principles of art called 'SHADANG - the six limbs of art', Roopbhedah - form, Parmanani - Proportion, Bhava - Emotion/Expression, Lavanya-yojnam - Composition, Sadrsyam - Resemblance, Varnika bhangam - (Colour and technique). For this installation, two western paintings have been studied and modified according to the six principles, 'Madonna in the Meadow' by Raphael (1505 - 1506) and 'Skeletons' Warming Themselves' by James Ensor (1889)Visual Art

Soham Das


Visual Art & Photography

Quarantine Colours
Impressionism in Digital Age
2020 

During lockdown and social isolation due to covid-19, people were being subconsciously habituated to the colours available in their nearby environment. To revive the hidden sense of normalcy of everyday commute and visual diversity, here colour theory, creative photography and editings are used to share a particular colour everyday.
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