Sudebi Thakurata is a creative facilitator, trans-disciplinary narrative designer, educator, writer, researcher, futurist, thinker, and conversationalist. Her work focuses on designing experiences, engagement, and environment using multiple modalities and media that enable them to co-design their own solutions and narratives using different modes and forms through thought and dialogue. Sudebi strongly emphasizes socially, environmentally, and culturally relevant issues, interweaving design, imagination, complex systems thinking, pedagogy, crafts, entrepreneurialism, visual and performing arts, oral history, ethnography, and research to co-create inclusive and regenerative possibilities. She is the co-founder of the trans-disciplinary global design collective,D .epicentre and has been an Associate Dean at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, India since 2010. Sudebi has had many notable roles and accomplishments, including being the Creative Facilitator of SEA?, a trans-national cross-cultural leadership program, across S-E Asia and the UK, a lead designer and co-author of a 'Fair Collaborations Toolkit in Cultural Relations' for the EUNIC, a mentor and evaluator for the Cultural Relations Platform, a global UNLEASH talent 2019, an Ambassador for Bali Fab Fest 2022, an NGFP jury member, guest faculty or collaborator in many international institutions and a mentor of many global innovation programs. She was awarded the Innovator for ITAC Innovation Think Tank 2021.