Publications

Journals & Book Chapters

• Ovla, Arman. Kllash, A Uniquely Designed Footwear. Responsible and Resilient Design for Society, Edited by In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V., Onkar, P.S., Shahid, M. Volume 4. Springer Nature,Singapore.September 2025.Online ISBN 978-981-96-5495-6 Print ISBN 978-981-96-5494-9 Dio: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5495-6_5
• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa. Khatoozin – a naïve woman sculptor from Bagbasi village, Kurdistan. Cogent Arts & Humanities, Volume 12, 2025 - Issue 1. Taylor & Francis online: 13 Mar 2025 Dio: 10.1080/23311983.2025.2473137
• Ovla, Arman.The Women Tradition Bearers of Kalpourgan in Iranian Baluchistan. Design for All Institute of India, Volume 17, 2022- No 4. Page 159-176, New Delhi, April 2022 ISSN: 2582 8304
• Ovla, Arman. Myth and Mythology Related to Water in Indian and Iranian Culture: Connections and Continuity. “Art and Architectural Tradition of India and Iran: Communality and Diversity, Edited by Nasir Raza Khan, Routledge, London. November 2021, eBook ISBN9781003229421 Dio: 10.4324/9781003229421-8
• Ovla, Arman. Analysis of Khatuzin's Sculptures Based on the theory of Carl G Jung. Katoozin Pazhohesh haye Zagros,Volume 2, 2014- No 2. Page 17-23, Tehran, Iran. July 2014 Here
• Ovla Arman. Women Potters in the World. Almas Season Journal. Volume 4, 2012- No 6. Page 20-25, Tehran, Iran. Feb 2012

Conference Proceedings

• Ovla, Arman, Kllash, a Uniquely Designed Footwear. 10th International Conference on Research Into Design (ICoRD’25) IIT Hyderabad, India, January 2025 | Video
• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Design and Development of the Cross-Draft Pottery Kiln with Normal Bricks. 10th International Conference on Research Into Design (ICoRD’25) IIT Hyderabad, India, January 2025
• Roy, S.,Ovla,A.,Thakurta Roy,S, Design Improvement for Value Addition in Local Terracotta Pots. Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principle & Practices, Portugal March 2023
• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Black Pottery of Nizamabad, India. Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, Portugal, March 2023 | Video
• Ovla, Arman & Roy, Satyaki, The Pottery of Pahari Village in Rajasthan. Seventeenth International Conference on The Arts in Society, Spain, July 2022 | Video
• Ovla, Arman & Roy, Satyaki. Women Potters from Kalpourgan in Iranian Baluchistan. “Three-day Online International Conference on Cross-Cultural Innovations in Art, Design and Animation" organized by School of Fine Arts, Amity University, Kolkata. September 2021
• Ovla, Arman. Myth and Mythology Related to Water in Indian and Iranian Culture: Connections and Continuity. International Conference on “Art and Architectural Tradition of India and Iran: Communality and Diversity, at Jamila Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India. December 2018.
• Ovla, Arman. Using the Jar As a Symbol in the Popular Culture of the People of Kurdistan Province. The First National Conference of Symbology in Persian Art with a Focus on Native Art, University of Bojnord. Iran. November 2017
• Ovla, Arman. Women Potters from Prehistory to the Present Day. 3rd International Conference of Science and Engineering. Istanbul. June 2016
• Ovla, Arman and Shler. Women Potters, Eighth National Women's Literature Conferences Sardasht, Iran, March 2016

Seminars Presented

• Conducting one week Clay Workshop, Design Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 4th to 11th May 2025 | Video
• Crafting Connections A Cross-Cultural Journey Through the Craft Heritage of Kurdistan, Iran and India, National Seminar on "Craft Culture of Odisha: Handicraft Heritage through Oral History", Sri Sri University India, 11-12 February 2025
• The Native Pottery in Pahari Village of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Research Scholars’ Day 2020 Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 18-19 January 2020
• Indian and Kurdish Mythology on the Water Culture, Research Scholars’ Day 2020 Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2 -3 March 2019
• Women Potters, Eighth National Women's Literature Conferences (Sardasht), March 2016
• Sculptures of Khatoozin, Women’s Day: Khatoozin's Commemoration, Saghez, Kurdistan, March 2015
• Kurdish Native Pottery, Tenth National Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics in Iran: Tehran, Imam Ali Art Museum, October 2011

Patent

• Gas -Fired Cross-Draft Pottery Kiln. Inventors: Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Indian Design Registration, No:438139001, Date:22/11/2024
• A Gas burner with multiple adjustment parameters. Inventors: Ovla, Arman. Sandeep Bajrangi Bari. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, German Utility Model Patent, Date:31/01/2025, No:202024107087, No:202024107087
• A low Budget Gas, Cross- Draft Kiln with Normal Bricks for local potters. Inventors: Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, German Utility Model Patent, Date:31/01/2025, No:202024107086, No:202024107086