Tanuja Mishra is a designer, artist and researcher who works at the intersection of critical and speculative design and social practice. She investigates historical, cul-tural and aesthetic implications of technology to imagine futures that are both aspi-rational and equitable. Her current research focuses on questioning machine intelli-gence and building AI on the values of care, trust and interconnection.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, at South Asian Visual Arts Centre To-ronto, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, CEPT University, USID India Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Museum and Gallery 224 at Harvard University. Through her so-cial practice, she has built community based activations in collaboration with not-for-profit and government organizations such as Uttar Pradesh Department of Tour-ism and the City of Nanaimo.
She is an alumna of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Na-tional Institute of Design Ahmedabad. She has taught graduate students at Nation-al Institute of Design Ahmedabad and undergraduate students at Vancouver Island University.