Ritika Kedia is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher who recently received her BFA in Product Design from Parsons School of Design, New York. Her work uses design as a medium to build imagined futures into favorable realities and manufacture long-term thinking.
Pursuing a critical design practice that holds humor at the heart of it, she makes machines that type on bread, furniture that can be inflated, lamps that investigate trash, vessels that conduct interviews, she writes manifestos on humor, and eats her to-do lists. She often collaborates with experts on things she wants to learn: the electrical engineering of foam cutters, the economics of imagined worlds, and TIG welding. She most enjoys the science of the mundane, building object narratives, and conducting experimental research no one asked for.
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Pursuing a critical design practice that holds humor at the heart of it, she makes machines that type on bread, furniture that can be inflated, lamps that investigate trash, vessels that conduct interviews, she writes manifestos on humor, and eats her to-do lists. She often collaborates with experts on things she wants to learn: the electrical engineering of foam cutters, the economics of imagined worlds, and TIG welding. She most enjoys the science of the mundane, building object narratives, and conducting experimental research no one asked for.
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Published Work
Designboom, 2024
Mold, 2024
Yanko Design, 2024
Creative Applications Net, 2024
Parsons Spotlight: Featured Designer, The New School Press, 2021
Mold, 2024
Yanko Design, 2024
Creative Applications Net, 2024
Parsons Spotlight: Featured Designer, The New School Press, 2021
Awards
Young Ones Awards Finalist, Product Design, 2024
Global Design Intervention: See My City, Thomas Jefferson University, 2020
Global Design Intervention: See My City, Thomas Jefferson University, 2020
Published Writing
Kawakami Shingo On
The Enduring Spirit Of Japanese Handmade Crafts, 2023
I Love The Art I Am Making Now: Curtis Waters and His Upcoming Album, 2022
I Love The Art I Am Making Now: Curtis Waters and His Upcoming Album, 2022
Work Exhibited
Design: Living, Thinking,
Making, Parsons School of Design, New York, 2023
Hold a Space for Me: Sobre Mesa, New York, 2022
Hold a Space for Me: Sobre Mesa, New York, 2022
Ritika Kedia is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher who recently received her BFA in Product Design from Parsons School of Design, New York. Her work uses design as a medium to build imagined futures into favorable realities and manufacture long-term thinking.
Pursuing a critical design practice that holds humor at the heart of it, she makes machines that type on bread, furniture that can be inflated, lamps that investigate trash, vessels that conduct interviews, she writes manifestos on humor, and eats her to-do lists. She often collaborates with experts on things she wants to learn: the electrical engineering of foam cutters, the economics of imagined worlds, and TIG welding. She most enjoys the science of the mundane, building object narratives, and conducting experimental research no one asked for.
Pursuing a critical design practice that holds humor at the heart of it, she makes machines that type on bread, furniture that can be inflated, lamps that investigate trash, vessels that conduct interviews, she writes manifestos on humor, and eats her to-do lists. She often collaborates with experts on things she wants to learn: the electrical engineering of foam cutters, the economics of imagined worlds, and TIG welding. She most enjoys the science of the mundane, building object narratives, and conducting experimental research no one asked for.