Kaajal Modi (she/they) is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher interested in how humans and other organisms can create ecological futures based on mutually-assured survival. They are a researcher in Engagement for Biological Architecture at Newcastle University, where they invite humans and more-than-humans into collaboratively imagining new biotechnologies for the built environment. They are also currently completing a PhD exploring food fermentation as an inter-cultural care practice with migrant women from the global majority at the University of the West of England, Bristol, supervised through the Art & Design department and Science Communication Unit.

Twitter: @kaajalmodi