Nihaarika Arora is a Multidisciplinary Designer. She moved to New York in 2016, and has explored design at the intersection of creating tangible products and curating intangible experiences.  Currently, she is completing her Masters at SVA Products of Design with a focus on Service Design.

 

Her passion is to co-create with communities by actively empathizing with their needs and systemically designing to reimagine equitable and sustainable futures.

 

Having lived in two diverse metropolitan cities—Mumbai and New York—her work hopes to create hybrids between the natural and built environments with the purpose to generate a positive impact, by addressing social and environmental changes in society. 

 

Nihaarika has a bachelor’s degree in Product Design and a minor in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design.

 

As a second-year master's student, her thesis encapsulates the intersection between food biodiversity and a healthy gut microbiome integral to educate urban families about the importance of including biodiverse ingredients to their diets.