Bhagyashree Patwardhan is a designer, curator and experience consultant with a value system embedded in sustainable practices and slow living. With over 20+ years of experience across branding, retail, curation, museum design and design thinking, she enjoys working with new concepts and derives great joy and satisfaction in building a brand up from scratch. Patwardhan specialises in designing the overall brand/event experience to produce engagement for the user. Right from her teenage years, environmental consciousness has been a fundamental basis to anything she has practised, personal or professional. Her brand Paper Boat Collective, defined by her value system, was one of the first businesses established as a sustainable retail business. It is proud of its zero-waste culture as well as collaborations with over 300 small-scale artists and designers producing handcrafted products in organic and natural materials. Paper Boat Collective is led by experience and boasts a very contemporary premium Indian aesthetic