Fall 2022 and spring 2022 seminar: M.R.P. candidate, city and regional planning
Sushmitta Renganathan is a second-year M.R.P. student with a background in architecture and urban design. The tutelage of eminent architects in cities like Kochi, New York City, Berkeley, Paris, Venice, and Tokyo kindled her passion for socially engaged architecture as a force that could foster sustainability across diverse scales and regions. The nuances of this fact that remain rooted in social and spatial inclusion motivated her to pursue the Regional Planning program. Through her graduate studies, she aspires to reach diverse groups of people and environments. The Design Justice Workshop of 2022 is the second Mellon Fellowship that Renganathan has participated in at Cornell University. Through this opportunity, she hopes to advance her current research on internal displacement in cities.