Nina Sabnani

Research Domains and Interests

Areas of Work Media Artefacts: Illustrated Books, Animation Films,

Documentary Films, Visual Narratives Collaborative Design Exploring and Experimenting with forms of storytelling Experimenting with tactile materials and their relationship to

forms and meaning

Image-Making and Representation Animation History and Theory Experimental Animation Altered Books and Book Structures Visual Ethnography Elements of Image-making

What I Teach

Domains of Research Domains between Design and Anthropology

Material Culture

Crafts and Oral Traditions

Narratives and Storytelling

Visual Ethnography

Domains of Research Methods

Ethnography and Animation

Textual Analysis

Visual Analysis

Current Research Scholars Word-Image Relationship in Comic Books

Representation of Architectural Space in Hindi Cinema

Craft Practice and Sustainability of Chitrakathis in Sawantwadi

Current Research Interests Orality and Literacy in Media Artefacts

Material Culture

Animation as Ethnography

Visual Ethnography

Word-Image relationship in Oral Traditions, Illustrated books,

Graphic novels

Film, TV and Textual Analysis