Aashna Daga

Aashna Daga is a SMarchS Urbanism Candidate (‘26) at MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies (KRVIA ‘20), Mumbai. Before joining MIT, she practiced professionally as an architect, researcher, and designer working extensively on issues pertaining to the constant (re)making of the city.

She holds keen overlapping interests in architecture, infrastructure, landscape, water security and issues of how urban governance shapes community vis-a-vis its implication on our most primitive and fundamental relationship to land/water. She intends to acquire multidisciplinary skillsets to critically investigate fluctuating dialogues between urban and non-urban landscapes and to explore alternative narratives of their representation within the context of an overarching question: 

How do we ensure our cities are places of expanding opportunity and dignity, of wonder and well-being, while still being relevant and resilient to pressures of urbanization and ecological change?