Satya Basu, Assoc. AIA, CPHC

Associate, Perkins & Will

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Satya is a Digital Innovation Strategist in the Perkins and Will i/o lab. Satya is a designer, strategist and technologist who utilizes his diverse background to respond to design challenges with inventive problem-solving. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and social thought from the University of Chicago and a master’s of Architecture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Satya began his practice by designing residential interiors to meet the challenges of Manhattan rental apartments and has shifted scales since then to design everything from furniture to urban-scale interventions across many disciplines and sectors. His focus at Perkins and Will is the research and development of next-generation tools and technologies. He is also a lecturer in the graduate architecture program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and member of a team developing a STEAM-rooted high school curriculum in computer science centered around designing and prototyping IoT (Internet of Things) devices to study the world. This grant-funded initiative entitled “School of Things” has been developed over the past 5 years with over 500 students at Lane Tech High School in Chicago.