Material Reconstructions
Vasundhra Aggarwal
2024 Spring Residency
Vasundhra Aggarwal (she/her) is a New York-based designer and writer who has lived in Delhi, Mumbai, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt. Her research critically interrogates materials, tools, and processes to understand and redefine the concept of ‘innovation design’. She creates material archives, image collections, digital interfaces, curated lists, and dinner parties as mediums to engage with elemental questions of how we see and how we make.
Aggarwal holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University, where she received multiple awards and research grants for works including Latent Territories, exploring modes of representation and fabrication in design, and Matters of Waste, focusing on sustainable construction methodologies. Her work has been exhibited in Syracuse, New York, London, and Florence. She has collaborated on design projects from the scales of single-family residential works to that of institutional and recreational urban projects at architecture firms such as SHoP Architects, Lea Architecture, r+d studio, and more. These experiences helped inform how her work can be applied at the industry level.
During the Residency with the Institute for Public Architecture, she pursues an investigation on circular design economies and experiences how to live and create on a zero-waste island.
Aggarwal holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University, where she received multiple awards and research grants for works including Latent Territories, exploring modes of representation and fabrication in design, and Matters of Waste, focusing on sustainable construction methodologies. Her work has been exhibited in Syracuse, New York, London, and Florence. She has collaborated on design projects from the scales of single-family residential works to that of institutional and recreational urban projects at architecture firms such as SHoP Architects, Lea Architecture, r+d studio, and more. These experiences helped inform how her work can be applied at the industry level.
During the Residency with the Institute for Public Architecture, she pursues an investigation on circular design economies and experiences how to live and create on a zero-waste island.
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