I’m an architect, educator and entrepreneur, and I run the interdisciplinary design and experimental architecture studio, DesignAware, and the generative design research initiative, Fractals Workshop.

I write to make sense of my thoughts and spark relevant conversations. My aim is to give back to communities through socially-relevant projects alongside architecture and interdisciplinary design research. I believe design and technology should not be confined within the bounds of a single discipline or become the forte of a select few, and I’m on a mission to make design more inclusive and democratic. I work across built and natural environments, analog and digital methods, and real and virtual worlds.

I co-founded BuildAware (in the middle of the pandemic!) to streamline construction and fabrication processes and bring our experimental designs into built form. I am currently researching the capabilities of AR/VR, machine learning and AI for application in design and fabrication, and I also design virtual spaces in the metaverse as a Senior Curator/Exhibition Designer at the Museum of Science Fiction.

I’m intrigued by craft and different ways of making, designing and solving puzzles, speculative design/fiction/multiverses, storytelling, and the fine line between utopia/dystopia.

I was listed in iGen50 under 40 2019, invited by the Ministry of Culture, India, to exhibit at the very first India Art, Architecture and Design Biennale 2023, and included in the book “100 Women: Architects in Practice” published by the RIBA. The book has been featured in The Architects’ Journal, The Guardian, The Hindu, Wallpaper*, among others.

I’m associated in a teaching capacity with the Boston Architectural College and CEPT University. I’ve written for The Wire, Indian Architect & Builder magazine, Architecture Live!, LA Journal, the Journal of the IIA, Gulf Construction magazine, and Mvslim.

I’m a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program and have delivered keynotes at TEDx, World Design Assembly, SPACE10 x World Congress of Architects 2023, Apple, IIA, India Design Summit, and ArchiNet.

I’ve lived in many different places all my life, and work across borders, and I consider myself the New Nomad.

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