Aastha D.

Aastha D. is an independent writer, critic, cultural strategist, and educator. She is trained in architecture, and its Critical Curatorial Conceptual Practices from Columbia University, New York. Her work is an enquiry into art, craft, design, literature, history, culture, and media to reveal systems of power and understand the pulse of the human condition. She is the founding editor of Proseterity, an international literary arts magazine, and run Critiqala, an alternative pedagogy lab for reading, argument, and critical thought. Alongside writing, Aastha teaches graduate courses in ethics, communications, architectural history, and creative research methodologies. She is a fellow at the Columbia School of Social Difference (CSSD) with the working group Insurgent Domesticities.