ABOUT
INTERDICSIPINARY DESIGNER | Climate + Material+ Objects + SPATIAL
I am driven by a simple question: What new worlds can design help us imagine?
I am an interdisciplinary designer whose practice spans industrial design, architecture and speculative research. Trained first as an architect and later as an industrial designer, I move fluidly across scales—from products and materials to interiors, exhibitions, and the built environment.
Architecture taught me that design is never an isolated artifact; it is shaped by context, movement, relationships, and time. Industrial design brought that perspective closer to the intimacy of objects, materiality, and human interaction. Together, these disciplines allow me to design not only things, but the systems, narratives, and experiences they inhabit.
I approach design as a dialogue between art and engineering. My work draws from anthropology, ecology, material research, sociology, and quantum science to create experiences that are both critically grounded and materially informed. Rather than focusing only on solving immediate problems, I am interested in how design can expand perception, question assumptions, and imagine new possibilities.
In recent years, my research has explored the climate crisis as a crisis of imagination as much as one of technology. Through design, I investigate how designers can reshape relationships between humans and the more-than-human world.
Across every project, I strive to create work that is thoughtful, rigorous, and evocative—transforming research into meaningful experiences through material, form, color, and space.
EDUCATION
-Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), 2024-2026 | Providence, RI
Masters in Industrial Design (STEAM program)
Electives: Generative systems, Immersive space in Digital Media, Biomaterials, Computational
thinking, Design for interaction.
-Brown University, 2025 | Providence, RI
Electives: The Entrepreneurial Process, Engineering Management and Decision-Making course.
-R.V College of Architecture (RVCA), 2015-2020 | Bengaluru city, India
Bachelor of Architecture
Design Research Thesis: Jenu Goodu- reimagining ‘dwellings’ for Indigenous communities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
-Project Architect, mayaPraxis Studio, Bengaluru (India) | June 2022-2024.
-Architect, Praxis. Inc, Bengaluru (India) | Nov 2021- June 2022.
-Site Supervisor, Loha Fabricators | 2021- 2021
-Design consultant, Pranaav Mantra Design firm | 2021- 2021
-Design consultant, Uravu Ecolinks (NGO) | 2021- 2021
-Founder, Aralu | 2020- 2021
-Design Intern, Hunnarshaala Foundation (Community empowerment Unit) | 2019- 2020
Accolades
-Awarded, Graduate Visionary Insight Award (Department of Industrial Design), 2026
-Awarded, RISD ID, Marc Harrison Fund, 2026
-Awarded, M. Fred Roddy Scholarship, AY 2025-26
-Awarded, RISD ID, Health Fund, 2025
-Awarded, RISD Graduate Fellowship, AY 2024-26
-Represented India & was awarded Domestic Gold Winner, (ACARA) Asian Contest for Architectural Rookie Awards 2018 in Taipei.
-Finalist, AIA Dallas Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition 2020.
-Best Undergrad Thesis, DSGN Archive Best UG Architectural Design Thesis 2020.
-Speaker, Design United ‘Small Measures, Great Impact’ Conference 2020.
-Top 10 Honorable Mentions, A Call for Nonurban Ideas 2021.
-Showcased Mycelium based prototypes, What’s the smell? RISD 2024
GRADUATE ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE @RISD
-Graduate Assistant for Exhibition Design @RISD MUSEUM | 2025- 26
-Summer Graduate Research Assistant (Material Circularity), at the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab | July 2025- August 2025.
-Co Curator, M. Industrial Design bi-annual exhibition | Jan 2025-March 2025.
-Research Experience
Emerging Disruptive Technologies, under Prof. Tom Wies | Sept 2025- present.
The Green book for Providence, under Prof. Jessica Brown | Sept 2024- May 2025.
-Teaching Experience
Design Histories, for Prof. Iilona Gaynor | Feb 2026- May 2026.
NASA Rover, for Prof. Micheal Lye | Sept 2025- Dec 2026.
Intro to Grad Industrial Design, for Prof. Nicholas Khipra | Jan 2025- Feb 2025.
Design Histories, for Prof. Paolo Cardini | Sept 2024- Dec 2024.
-Student advisor, for RISD Intercultural Student Engagement |Feb 2025-Sept 2025.
-LiaIson, Woodshop | Feb 2025- Dec 2025
-Monitor, Laser cutting machine | Sept 2025- present
VOLUNTEERING and WORKSHOPS
-The Bio design Challenge 2025, New York, USA.
-AS220 summer event, Providence, USA.
-Building material, structure and finishes: Rammed Earth, CSEB (Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks, Cob wall, Wattle and Daub, Mud Plaster, Kodi Marble Lime Plaster, Shallow Dome Construction.
