Chetan Shastri is a design historian and a design consultant. 

During his early career, Chetan worked in India and London, on commercial projects as an exhibition, visual, retail, and wayfinding designer. Following an MA in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and for a few years before coming to Melbourne, Chetan was teaching design. 

He continues to teach design part-time at RMIT University and has recently completed his creative practice-based PhD. Chetan’s PhD started in 2019 and was examined in October 2023. His research practice sought to support better experiences at end-of-life. As part of his PhD Chetan constructed two projects, one at Alfred Hospital and the other at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. The project at Alfred Hospital resulted in the development of the Bioscope which is an embroidered cartography of death and a tool to facilitate conversations about end-of-life. The Bioscope has been announced as a finalist for the Victorian Premier’s Design Award (2023).