Harshita Nedunuri is a transdisciplinary designer and researcher based in NYC. Her creative practice is centered around applied speculative design and cyborg anthropology, with a specific interest in empathy and poetry as instruments of divining collective consciousness. 
 

Harshita has been cultivating a myriad of explorations with Yale’s CCAM since late 2020. She mentors students for The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space, consults on course projects that embark in parabolic research flights, and is a key collaborator in progressing Ultra Space philosophies towards radical & equitable futures. Rooted in this work, she produced the Terra Cosma film probing anthropocosmic architecture. She directed the Celestial World of CCAM podcast; a series of rhizomatic audio offshoots featuring collisions between astronauts/architects/artists/artificial intelligences. As a CCAM fellow, Harshita will continue to support future experiments in these realms.
 

Harshita holds an M.A. from NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a dual B.A. from NYU Media, Culture & Communications + Psychology. She is currently a design strategist at Google, working to evolve conversational experiences on emerging surfaces. She is also an educator in Design Theory at Queens College, City University of New York.