Aurgho Jyoti along with Saurabh Tewari presented their research at the Design History Society Conference in San Francisco. The conference was themed “How We Live, and How We Might Live.” The lecture titled “Holistic Design Principles driven by Socio-Environmental Visions: Indian Sub-Continent”, through an investigation of post-colonial Design History of India explored Social and Environmental Visions in the Indian context. With post-independence modernization by Nehru, economic liberalization of the nineties, and Modi’s aggressive smart cities call, it is critical to retrospect for a culturally-rooted future.