Dr Masooma Rizvi, Founder, Managing Director and Lead Designer of Delhi based Belita Design Solutions Private Limited, is a multifaceted personality and apart from being an acclaimed museum curator – designer, is also an entrepreneur, artist, author, art critic, cultural ambassador, art curator, mentor, trainer and more importantly a champion showcasing rich Indian Culture and tradition in all her Projects.
Curating spaces and art to showcase and propagate Indian culture and history in a thematic visual and digital interactive language, ensuing every piece tells a story. She believes that enhancing this sector is an important part of nation building; in fact it should ideally be the core from where one starts, for it binds the past to the future. Her forte is insight in developing visitor circulation patterns, perceived experience outcome, imaginative use of space, media and art, developing community values towards heritage and ensuring narrative drives design, and spaces are keeping in sync with times and challenges. She also excels in audience engagement, innovation and technology rooted in our culture to get interest, flow and focus.
It is a matter of honour for her that within the last four years, five of her projects have been inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and that she has been selected as the Art Curator for the New Parliament Building presently under construction in New Delhi. As art Curator for all Airport Authority of India airports, including the recently inaugurated project in Chennai by Hon’ble PM, she is a museologist in charge of the Ministry of Culture, managing the planning and execution of the Deendayal Upadhyaya Museum Project in Greater Noida, which the Honourable Prime Minister inaugurated in 2019. IIT Delhi – Art Curator and Designer: Designed and executed interiors as well as art projects for the existing and new campus at Sonipat. The “Science and Technology Theme” serves as the foundation for these artworks. 2017. The project was launched by the Honourable Chief Minister of Haryana, Shri Manoharlal Khattar (2017).
The future is filled with exciting prospects. The pandemic has shifted how we perceive and interact with our spaces, sparking innovative approaches to design which I’m using in my own projects. She is excited to continue tackling projects that challenge conventional design norms and green and smart spaces that cater to our evolving technological landscape.
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