Monish Siripurapu is an Architect and ‘Antrepreneur’, founder of Ant Studio, an innovative architectural practice dwelling in the intersection of Art, Nature and Technology, part of AD100 2024 and carving its name with experiments in the field of sustainability and computational design technology. He is also the founder of CoolAnt, a sustainability think tank innovating Climate-Responsive Building Envelopes through nature-based energy-efficient cooling solutions.
CoolAnt has received national and international recognition for its work. The startup’s pitch was recently aired on season 3 of Shark Tank India. Their low-carbon cooling systems have won them the National Energy Efficiency Innovation Award (NEEIA), by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), felicitated by President Droupadi Murmu in 2023. CoolAnt has also won the Asia Pacific Low Carbon Footprint Challenge, the Clean Energy Challenge by ‘What Design Can Do’, and was funded by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Monish is a speaker during The Celebration, the evening programme of the WDCD Festival on 6 June at Pakhuis de Zwijger. You can attend this public event with a festival passe-partout or by reserving a separate evening ticket (pay-as-you-like option).
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