Kaajal Modi

Kaajal (she/they) is a multidisciplinary designer and Research Associate in the Responsible Interactions theme at the HBBE. Working on public engagement, Kaajal is interested in building a culture of curiosity around the work of the team by creating interactions, exhibitions, workshops and other modes that can bring together people from diverse communities, cultures and industries in order to create reciprocal conversations about how we might live with biological systems in the future.

Prior to joining HBBE, Kaajal was studying an interdisciplinary practice-based PhD in design and science communication at UWE, Bristol, partly funded through a partnership with the Eden Project's Invisible Worlds exhibition. Working with migrant women from the global majority, Kaajal developed fermentation (and other preservation) recipes to reduce food waste in the home, through an experimental practice of intercultural citizen science in the kitchen as a form of human and more-than-human participatory design.

Kaajal's training is in Design Innovation from the Glasgow School of Art and The Open University, however she has also worked as an artist, illustrator and graphic designer with organisations including The Labour Party, Arts Catalyst, The Social ARTery, PROJECT, Julie's Bicycle, Arts Admin, Decolonising Economics, and many others.

www.kaajalmodi.com