About Anu
Her work in recent years has focused on social innovation, education, urban placemaking, community urbanism, built environments, behavioral change, and food sustainability on a micro and macro scale. She believes digging deep into how our ancestors lived leads to a resilient future, with a people-planet approach. Her projects attempt to bring poetry into our everyday lives.
She is trained as an Architect and holds a Master's in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, New York, where she graduated with distinction.
She has worked as a designer at Street Lab, New York, for two years. Street Lab was featured in the New York Times for its active work in transforming the public spaces in the city.
She is currently working as a freelance designer.
Her experience working and studying internationally across the US, London, Tokyo, and India brings a global perspective to the social design challenges she addresses, with a sensibility towards local culture and community.
Urban Placemaking portfolio upon request
P R E S S A N D E X H I B I T I O N S
2023- NYC x Design 2023 student award for Thesis project
2022- Thesis Research Project exhibited at the Dutch Design Week 2022
2022- An emergency housing shelters proposal by Pratt featured in Brooklyn Daily Eagle
2022- Emergency housing project showed at 'Prototypes for Humanity' exhibition, Dubai
2022- Food Design workshop for Field Meridians x MOLD Magazine Brower Park
2022 - Thesis Graduation Project exhibited at Pratt shows
2022- Emergency housing Project exhibited at Julia Curran Terian Gallery, Pratt
2021- 'Sonic Bloom', a plant care soundscape, received the innovation award at the Pratt Research Open House
2021- A sustainable dinner for Pratt Earth Action Week in collaboration with Pratt Farm to campus x GrowNYC
A P P R O A C H
She prioritizes research processes, allowing her to work out of bounds, at the intersection of various disciplines, scales, and mediums to generate authentic outcomes. Her design research approach combines systems thinking with participatory design methods, in order to understand complex issues from both a global and local perspective. To bring her projects to life, she integrates various media and technical skills.
Image by Kennyjmw
My hobbies include dance, yoga, heritage walks, hiking,
reading, playing the violin, cooking, backpacking, sketching
D O M A I N
Social innovation | Design research |Architectural Design | Industrial Design | Urban planning
P R O F E S S I O N A L S K I L L S
Design thinking | Participatory design | Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methodologies | Data analysis
UI/ UX research | Visual communication | community engagement | Technical writing | Event/ Exhibition Design | Program design | Product design | Strategic design
T E C H N I C A L S K I L L S
2D and 3D Modeling:
Autocad, Rhinoceros, Sketchup, Maya
Presentation:
Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere Pro, Adobe XD), Microsoft office suite, keynote, Miro, Milanote
Rendering:
Keyshot
Fabrication:
CNC, Lasercutting, Rapid prototyping, Wood working
Platforms:
Figma, Squarespace, Wix, cargo collective
Manual:
Sketching, model making, photography
Interactive media:
Touch Designer ( visual coding), VCV rack and reaper (audio)
