Kaajal Modi (she/they) is a multidisciplinary designer with a background in political visual communication, social and partipatory design and community-led food activism based on principles of critical care and mutual aid. Kaajal is currently conducting a practice-based PhD at the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE, Bristol, co-supervised through the Science Communication Unit. Their practice draws from collaborative design, speculative design, science communication and participatory art in order to build emergent methodologies that are inclusive, playful and exploratory. Through their research, they work with food fermentation practices in the kitchen as a way to explore our understandings of metabolic ecologies as extended through our bodies and our environments. They belive that by learning from and working with the knowledge, practices and cultural cosmologies of marginalised communities, in collaboration with the holders of that knowledge, we might find new ways of thinking climate futures where we all flourish.
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