Hiteshree Das is a South Asian design researcher based in the Boston area. Her practice operates at the intersection of civic innovation, public policy, and storytelling—spanning design, research, curation, and publishing.

She seeks to strengthen community resilience by surfacing invisible stressors—those often overlooked when viewed through the lens of a single discipline—using a mixed-methods research approach and translating the data into experiential and visual forms for diverse stakeholders.

As a Researcher at metaLAB at the Berkman Klein Center, she is currently working on the AI Personality Study. In parallel, she also serves as co-curator of the Hum Sab Ek traveling exhibition, as an Associate at the South Asia Institute at Harvard. She holds a Master’s in Design Studies with a focus on the Public Domain from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor’s in Industrial Arts and Design Practices from the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.

Her recent projects, engaging with resilient livelihoods, public health, natural disasters, urban planning, and education, critically address the need for cross-sectoral collaboration in effective space-making, service design, and delivery. She has completed several art, design and research initiatives, including Hum Sab Ek (2024–2026), Do No Harm: Dilemmas of Planning for Health (2024), Forest Futures (2024), and The Black City AstroLabe (2023), with the support of institutions such as the World Bank Group, Global Fairness Initiative, and the Center for Green Buildings and Cities at Harvard.

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