Samta Nadeem's interdisciplinary background equips her with a keen perspective on creative cultures and how they are intertwined with contemporary complexities. A lighting designer, design curator, critical thinker and creative director, she is passionate about engaging with issues of social and environmental justice through design and discourse. Samta leads curatorial programming, audience engagement, and communications at STIR – a media house and curatorial agency operating in the domains of architecture, design and art.Samta holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Design from the Design Museum London and Kingston University partnership programme. Her current curatorial research looks at expanding the potential of Public Programming within public institutions of contemporary culture, as an instituent practice, through the lens of the 'commons'. Lighting design has been her creative medium for over 14years. Having spoken on multiple public platforms and guest lectured at various design schools in India, Samta has acted in an interim curatorial role at the Design Museum London, developing public programmes with the learning department for exhibitions such as Ai Weiwei: Making Sense, The Offbeat Saree, Garden Programme and more. She regularly chairs panel discussions and talks to facilitate the emergence of new perspectives; lately at the Salone del Mobile - Milan, Design Museum London, Istituto Marangoni London, Material Matters Fair, LiGHT23, Isola Milano, RIBA, LFA, CDW, Global Design Forum at LDF and more. Open to collaborating on projects and public programming initiatives in an individual and/or official capacity.