Matra is built on a simple belief - design isn’t a category. It’s a way of living.
MATRA is a culture-forward design festival where creativity becomes a shared cultural language. Across three days, MATRA brings together design, craft, cuisine, material intelligence, emerging technology, and community in a setting designed to feel immersive, grounded, and joyful. People come to experience design in many forms: what we make, what we eat, what we wear, what we build, and what we live with.
Theme 2026
Patrons
SHIMUL KADRI JAVERI
SHIMUL KADRI JAVERI
SHIMUL KADRI JAVERI
MATRA Design Festival
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Kerala, India • March 2026
What is MATRA?
MATRA is a design festival where creativity becomes a shared language – communal, sensorial, immersive, and joyfully participatory. It brings together designers, makers, artists, chefs, technologists, students, and global nomads into one living ground of conversations, workshops, and gatherings
The MATRA Experience
Five ways the festival unfolds across ideas, people, and place.
Tech × Design Lab
Demos + hands-on sessions with future-facing
tools and practices.
Culture & Commons
Community, craft lineages, and shared
ways of making.
Design in the Everyday
Objects, homes, habits, hospitality,
lived experience.
Chef Tables & Private Dinners
Curated meals that anchor the day’s conversations.
Music & Gatherings
Performances and shared moments that bring the room together.
Soft Opening — arrival, grounding, campus immersion, and a gentle start.
Tech × Design Lab — demos, tools, experiments, and future-facing practice.
Summit Day 1 — two parallel tracks: Commons + Everyday.
Summit Day 2 + Awards Night — deeper sessions, then celebration + concert.
Closing Circles + Extensions — reflection + optional cultural add-ons.
Our People
Patrons
Anitha Raghavan
Arts Patron & Cultural Philanthropist
R. K. Menon
Design Advocate, Former Public Sector Leader
Meera Iyer
Independent Collector & Craft Supporter
Sanjay Kulkarni
Entrepreneur & Ecosystem Builder
Lakshmi Nair
Trustee, Heritage & Education Initiatives
Curational Advisory
Anitha Raghavan
Arts Patron & Cultural Philanthropist
R. K. Menon
Design Advocate, Former Public Sector Leader
Meera Iyer
Independent Collector & Craft Supporter
Sanjay Kulkarni
Entrepreneur & Ecosystem Builder
Lakshmi Nair
Trustee, Heritage & Education Initiatives
Council
Anitha Raghavan
Arts Patron & Cultural Philanthropist
R. K. Menon
Design Advocate, Former Public Sector Leader
Meera Iyer
Independent Collector & Craft Supporter
Sanjay Kulkarni
Entrepreneur & Ecosystem Builder
Lakshmi Nair
Trustee, Heritage & Education Initiatives
Cultural experience rooted in nature
The Table
At MATRA, the table is part of the program. Curated chef tables and private dinners create a slower, warmer space where the day’s ideas continue — through taste, memory, and conversation.
Chef tables
Private dinners
Curated bites
Shared meals
Tickets
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Day Pass
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Summit Pass
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Special Pass
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Press
Press interactions and interviews with patrons can be coordinated in advance. Media kits and images available on request.